East Side Mags is proud to announce the return of Matt Jorgensen of Earthen Games!

Matt Jorgensen, a local game designer from Montclair, is seeking playtesters for Crash Site, a fully cooperative sci-fi action RPG board game.

1-4 players control their own character to fight enemy hordes in tactical combat.

Try it out for FREE and earn a $5 gift card to East Side Mags!

For more information on Crash Site, visit earthengames.com

Montclair local, Matt Jorgensen, is bringing a brand new RPG style board game to East Side Mags for the first time!

We’re looking for people who like board games, RPGs and, well, FUN! People who want to road-test this awesome new game, give some feedback and score a sweet $5 gift card to East Side Mags just for playing!

Scan the QR code to sign up! Matt will be here from 2pm-5pm!

Let the games begin!

Omniversal Entertainment in conjuction with East Side Mags brings you BEETLEJUICE LIVE!

Yes you heard us. Beetlejuice (that’s 2) LIVE and IN-PERSON!

It’s been a really long time since this eclectic collection of voice actors and comedians have graced our walls but they’re back and foaming at the mouth to bring you the best live entertainment they possibly can muster.

You might remember this team (under a different name) from previous live readings for such acclaimed cinema reproductions live Monty Python and Young Frankenstein.

But this is a special Halloween version that will include a live script reading featuring as many as 6 voice actors and comedians along with a very special raffle for a $50 East Side Mags gift card with 100% of the proceeds going to support Tomorrow’s Children’s Fund at Hackensack Meridian Children’s Hospital.

Plus who knows what other surprises await. After all it’s a live reading of Beetlejuice……..yikes! We said it 3 times!

Well - while we try to get ourselves out of this mess we made, we hope you’ll be able to join us at 7pm on October 29 for a very special Halloween event!

Praise Themyscira!  It's Wonder Woman Day!  And East Side Mags has a TON of great Wonder Woman things in store for you!

We're hosting special guest artist Alexia Veldhuisen, Kubert School Graduate!  Alexia Veldhuisen was born and raised in Amsterdam. For many years she worked at Gojoker Strips & Comics, the best comic shop in town. Pursuing her life long dream of becoming a comic book artist, she moved to the US. She is a graduate of the world-renowned comic book program The Kubert School, where she was awarded the Dave Simons Memorial Scholarship for her achievements in inking. Next to comic art, traditional and digital painting, she enjoys coffee, video games and “normal” books. She dreams of telling her own stories and secretly being a master samurai!  She'll be knocking out awesome free sketches for customers with the option of upgrading to inks and/or full color for an additional charge - paid directly to her!  Alexia will be sketching from 12pm-5pm.

We'll also have FREE tiaras and bracelets available on a first-come, first-served basis!  Dress like Wonder Woman - or at least rock the accessories and show your love for the most powerful woman in the DCU!

We're also having a kids costume contest!  Come dressed as your favorite character from not only DC Comics but any hero, villain or otherwise and automatically enter into a chance to win an AMC Gift Card AND an East Side Mags gift card!

We've got DOLLAR RAFFLES with 5 amazing Wonder Woman themed prizes too!  Each prize perfect for all ages and stages of Wonder Woman fans from lifers to newbies!  You don't want to miss these awesome items!

Last, but NEVER EVER least, we'll have an appearance from THE WOMAN HERSELF!  Come hang out with the powerful princess Mia Ortiz in character, get your photo taken and enjoy as we regale ourselves in stories of Greek Gods, high adventure and maybe some juicy tidbits about Steve Trevor himself!

What's Halloween ComicFest you say?  Why - only the greatest Halloween activity EVER!

Think of it like this - FREE COMIC BOOK DAY of the Fall season!  With me now?  Great!

Join us for a day of fun-filled and SPOOKY activities including:

Artist Sketches!  Meet Idan & Bella! 

Idan just graduated from the Kubert School and Bella moved to the state's this summer following her dreams of becoming a comicbook artist.

Both artists live in NJ at the moment and enjoy drawing all day.

Idan & Bella will be drawing on blank sketch covers from 10am-7pm .  Buy a blank sketch cover, get a FREE pencil sketch.  You can also upgrade to black & white inked drawings, full color or get a full-blown commission done.  Additional charges will apply for the upgrades but you pay the artist directly!

Help support local artists AND get a cool comic cover drawn by either one (or both) of these amazing artists before Dark Horse or DC Comics snatches them up and their original art costs you a million dollars!!!

And what would Halloween be without a costume contest?  Boring - that's what.  That's why were hosting the ULTIMATE ESM COSTUME CONTEST! A contest for the ages - ALL AGES!  All you have to do to enter is come by in costume or cosplay, we'll take your picture and your contact info and notify you if you've won!  Prizes include - $50 East Side Mags gift card, Free Mystery Comic Bundles, toys and MORE!!!

Did we mention FREE COMICS?  Halloween ComicFest works just like FREE COMIC BOOK DAY in May.  A whole bunch of publishers put together really cool titles or sampler versions of current titles - mostly Halloween themed - and East Side Mags makes them available for you, for FREE!  Some of the titles that will be available are:

• Scooby Apocalypse / Hanna Barbera Sampler
• DC Super Hero Girls
• Haunted Mansion #1
• Spidey #1
• Darth Vader Doctor Aphra #1
• Three Stooges Halloween Hullaballoo #1
• My Little Pony the Haunted Dungeon
• Afterlife with Archie Season Two
• and so much more!*

*Please note - not ALL titles are ALL AGES friendly.  Please ask us about the titles if you are not sure.

Last - we'll have buttons, stickers and other really cool swag that we'll be giving out all day.  It is Halloween after all!

So get spooky! Get scary! and get ready!  We're gonna have a TON OF FUN!

UPDATE (9/16): Charles Paul Wilson III will be here from 2pm-5pm only. Fernando Ruiz will be here from 1pm-6pm still. Please let us know if you have any questions.

We are VERY excited to see everyone tomorrow!!!

-East Side Mags

It's Batman Day again and East Side Mags is throwing a pretty massive party!  We've got star-studded comic guests, raffles, give-a-ways and so much more we don't even know where to start!  So let's start here:

We'll have copies of Batman Rebirth #1 featuring variant cover art by Howard Porter!  We will be giving these away for FREE w/purchase (while supplies last) as soon as we open the doors or you can choose a limited edition Suicide Squad mini-poster that was ONLY available at Heroes & Villains Fan Fest in Secaucus, NJ (also while supplies last)!

For your sketching and signing pleasure - we are SUPER EXCITED to announce that we'll be hosting Fernando Ruiz (artist for Archie, Die Kitty Die*) and Charles Paul Wilson III (artist for Stuff of Legend, TMNT, Wraith)! Both of these fine gentlemen will be hanging out, signing copies of their various works and sketching on blank comic covers for our customers!  The fun goes from 1pm-6pm!

*Of special note - as supporters of Fernando's and Dan Parent's Kickstarter and new project - Die Kitty Die - we are the proud owners of exclusive Kickstarter hardcover collections of all 4 issues of Die Kitty Die with exclusive content ONLY found in this book which is also signed by both gentlemen with a black & white sketch inside and an exclusive cover drawn by Darwyn Cooke!

We've also got out famous $1 raffles with a variety of prizes including (but not necessarily limited to):

• Batman & Robin XL Dorbz
• Official Suicide Squad movie poster courtesy of Bowtie Cinemas
• Batman 75th Anniversary action figure 4-packs
• Vinyl poster/flag of Batman from the Montclair Art Museum
• and more to come!

Do you have a Batman costume or cosplay?  Show up any time on Batman Day and be automatically entered in our Batman Costume Contest!  All ages welcome!  Grand prize is a $50 gift card!!!