Come see us at Garden State Comic Fest! Plus these other folks will be there too!
It’s Montclair PRIDE and East Side Mags is located right in the heart of the festivities!
We’re so excited to see everyone and the amazing vendors, guests and attendees!
To support OUT MONTCLAIR, we will be donating 10% of our TOTAL DAY’S sales to this fine organization!
On top of that, any purchase of $50 or more will get you one of our EXCLUSIVE East Side Mags Pride T-Shirts to rock while you’re walking the streets of Montclair PRIDE - or anywhere you like!
In addition to all this, we’ll have a special display highlighting some of our favorite LGBTQIA+ comics and graphic novels from some of our favorite comic creators! Here are a few awesome items we’ll have available:
We can’t wait to see everyone!
Join us for Batman Day - where we celebrate EVERYTHING that’s awesome about Batman. Not just the man himself but the women and men that back him up when he’s out in Gotham City as well as the people of Gotham themselves and the villains he protects them from!
We’ll have 2 amazing Batman comics available - Batman: Nightwalker is a preview of an upcoming graphic novel for young adults based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Marie Lu. THEN we have a special Batman Day edition of the Batman Who Laughs #1 with a special cardstock outer cover that shows the Batman Who Laughs special mask!
As an added bonus, we’ll be selling customized Batman t-shirts all day for ONLY $5.*
Come by and get a cool Batman tee “on the spot” featuring one of several Batman style logos including but not limited to the Bat symbol, the Robin symbol, a Joker smile and others! Pick your t-shirt color and pick your ink color and we’ll spray paint a t-shirt right there for you! We’ll start right when we open at 10am and keep spray-painting t-shirts until we run out of stock!
*T-shirt sizes & colors, ink colors available in limited quantities and while supplies last. Limit of 1 per person.
Finally, we’ll have some specials on Batman related items (in-store ONLY). So make sure you come by and check it out!
East Side Mags is celebrating everything Batman and we want to cordially invite you to celebrate with us!
We've got some great Batman-related stuff going on ALL DAY LONG including a very SPECIAL guest appearance by 2 comic legends!!!
We'll have some FREE Batman Comics that we're giving out all day (1 per customer)! A special re-print of Batman White Knight #1 and a special re-print of Batman: Lil Gotham Batman Day 2018 Special Edition #1 (for all ages)!
We'll also have a variety of FREE Batman and Harley Quinn masks that we're giving out (1 per customer).
We are also PROUD to announce that the legendary Tom Raney and Scott Hanna will be joining us from 1pm-5pm. Tom and Scott will be sketching for customers and we'll have blank cover comics available as well!
Scott has worked on so many DC and Marvel comics that we literally don't have enough storage space on the website to list everything but if you've read a Marvel or DC Comic anytime between 1990 (ish) and today, you've most likely seen his work. He is a HUGE addition to our Batman Day event and we're super happy he's able to take the time to come hang out with us.
Tom Raney, over the past 20 years has spent his time predominantly at Marvel and DC, he’s drawn a bit of everything, from XMen to Batman. Superman to the Hulk. Notably, he’s revamped Stormwatch with Warren Ellis, the Outsiders with Judd Winick, co-created Threshold with Keith Giffen, and co-created Mutant X. While still producing work for Marvel and DC he recently drew Dread Gods, for Ominous Press.
To top it all off, we'll be playing Batman movies ALL DAY and we'll have some Batman Dollar Raffles going on as well! Stay tuned for details and available prizes for our raffles!
The holiday season is officially here! While everyone is polishing off their leftover turkey and stuffing, we're all thinking the same thing - SH*T! Did I get my holiday shopping done? Well - have no fear! East Side Mags is HERE with some awesome holiday news and deals for YOU - the people!
Alexia Veldhuisen - artist extraordinaire and Kubert School graduate - will be here sketching for customers! Do you have an artist or art fan in your life? This is the PERFECT gift - the gift of original art! Pick a blank cover and included in the purchase is a FREE pencil sketch. But wait - there's more! You can upgrade to black & white inks and/or full color (or buy a commission) and pay the additional charge to the artist directly! That means you get a piece of original art, you've supported your local comic shop AND you've supported a local artist ALL IN ONE SHOT! Happy holidays to EVERYONE (literally).
We're also having an awesome SALE on tons of merchandise throughout the store! For ONE DAY ONLY - we're giving you:
20% off the following items:
plus you can get 50% off:
and as always we've got our dollar comics special - get 12 for $10 or 25 for $20!
Finally - we'll have a really awesome Batman/Harley Quinn coloring station that's FREE for kids or really anyone who wants to join in! We're having the coloring station in part with Montclair Center BID's AMEX Small Business Saturday Passport program! Pick up your passport on Church St. in Montclair on 11/25 and take it to participating businesses and get stamps. Once your stamps are collected, you are eligible to enter to win a ton of great prizes from a ton of local Montclair businesses! To get our stamp, all you need to do is color in an awesome Batman or Harley picture! It also makes a really great gift too!
Last - we'll have our famous dollar raffles! Raffle prizes will get listed on our Facebook page so LIKE US today and get all the updates!
Sponsors: Montclair Learning Center & The Little Gym of Montclair
Vendors:
Amazing Escape Room Montclair
Bella Princess
Catherine Russell Home
Communities Promoting Animal Welfare
Decorated Interiors
Dirt & Noise
East Side Mags
French Institute Alliance Francaise
Fusion Academy Montclair
Geyer Family Branch of the YMCA
Glamour and Glitz
Glen Ridge Taekwon-do
Integrated Health of Montclair
Java Love Coffee
Junior League of Montclair-Newark
Kona Ice of NJ
KYSS
L3 Academy
Laptop Upcycle
Little Hot Dog Wagon
Little Nest Portraits
Mana Terra
MFEE – Montclair Foundation for Excellance in Education
Mom-N-Tot Nutrition
Montclair Learning Center – Sponsor
Montclair Pediatric Dental
Oh my Balm!
Philly Pretzel Factory
Programs for Parents/Montclair
Rain Lily
Sunrise Cathering
Tableleghome
The Little Gym of Montclair – Sponsor
Uptown Art Montclair
Harley Quinn is taking over Batman Day this year! Come by East Side Mags and celebrate all things Batman, er, I mean HARLEY QUINN.
We've got Kubert School artists, Batman, er, I mean HARLEY QUINN raffles, free give-a-ways and more surprises in store!
Meet Brian Benjamin. Brian is a Queens based artist who is currently at his final year at the Kubert School, with dreams of becoming DC's top artist.
Joining Brian is Dillon Snook. Dillon was born and raised in New Jersey, and has recently decided to dive headfirst into the business of comic art. He is a student entering his final year at the Kubert School, equal parts nervous and eager to get out into the business. Heavily influenced by comic artists and fine artists alike (John Singer Sargent, Jorge Zaffino and Alex Toth to name a few…), Dillon has been drawing since he can remember, mostly to compete with the attention his older brother and fellow artist got when creating. Above all, he just wants to deliver some high quality sketch covers for people who love Harley Quinn.
And to top it all off - Rusty Gladd will be joining us as well! Rusty is from Northern New Jersey and a third-year student of the Kubert School, where he studies comic book art alongside his friend Brian Benjamin and their talented classmates. He's inspired by Old masters such as Wally Wood and Al Williamson, and modern artists Tony Moore, Scott Koblish, and Ryan Ottley to name a few. Upon graduation at the Kubert School, Rusty will be pursuing a career in comics.
Brian, Dillon and Rusty will be here from 1pm-6pm. Buy a sketch cover, get a FREE pencil sketch. You can also upgrade to inks and/or full color for an additional charge - paid DIRECTLY to the artist! Support your comic shop and local artists at the same time!
We've got FREE copies of three (3) different Harley Quinn comics that will be available! Customers that come by for Harley Quinn Day can choose from the following free comics (while supplies last):
BATMAN DAY 2017 SPECIAL EDITION #1 reprints BATMAN #16, the first chapter of "I Am Bane," written by Tom King with art by David Finch. This issue's cover art is by Ryan Sook and features Batman and Harley Quinn in an homage to THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #1. This issue also includes a new, three-page original story written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti with art by Bret Blevins! (Rated T)
HARLEY QUINN BATMAN DAY 2017 SPECIAL EDITION #1 reprints HARLEY QUINN #11, the first chapter of "Joker Loves Harley," written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti with art by John Timms and a cover by Amanda Conner. (Rated T+)
DC SUPER HERO GIRLS BATMAN DAY 2017 SPECIAL EDITION #1 features a chapter of the upcoming all-ages original graphic novel DC SUPER HERO GIRLS: OUT OF THE BOTTLE, starring Harley Quinn and written by Shea Fontana with art by Marcelo DiChiara and Agnes Garbowska and a cover by Yancey Labat. (All Ages)
We've also got HARLEY QUINN herself who will be stopping by! Come meet Harley and take pics with her, ask her about Poison Ivy, the Joker, that time she narrowly got away from Batman himself or even what that awful acid tastes like - EW! She'll be hanging out from 1pm-5pm!
