Holy shit! It’s almost here. C2E2 hits Chicago this weekend, and it goes going to rule. Heading to the convention (you better be!)? Here’s Nerd City’s guide to the show: ARTISTS: There is a ton of talent at this year’s show (local and otherwise), and many of our good friends will be present in full [...]

FX is shooting the brand new Jason Patric-led pilot based on one of my favorite comics ever, “Powers“, right here in Nerd City’s backyard! Brian Michael Bendis stopped in to Chicago Comics, and the crew took over Bucktown (right by Piece) to shoot footage on Thursday night. As a huge fan of Patric, Powers, Bendis (on [...]

That’s right, this Saturday, May 7 is the Tenth Annual Free Comic Book Day! A great opportunity to reconnect with the medium or just check out something you might not normally, FCD is a great Nerd tradition, and we support it whole-heartedly. Lucky for us, Chicago does FCD right. No Free Comic Book day is complete [...]

Nerd City’s H.Q. Chicago Comics is hosting a signing with the great Ivan Brunetti, to celebrate the re-release of his super awesome “Cartooning” book, this Friday April 1,  5-7 p.m. Brunetti is an amazing talent and teacher, and this is guaranteed to be a super-interesting event. Get all the details of Chicago Comics’ Ivan Brunetti Signing here.

Jeremy Bastian, the creator of Cursed Pirate Girl, one of the most amazingly drawn comic books  EVER, is signing copies of his  TPB this Saturday, Feb 26th from 4-6, at our beloved Chicago Comics! The creator of some of the most intrinsic, imaginative art I’ve ever seen, it also turns out that Bastian is a super [...]

So, recently,  I’ve been making a serious effort to broaden my comic book horizons, reading books I normally wouldn’t read, or just grabbing something I may have never even heard of. With this new sense of graphic novel  adventuresness, I can happily report from the field that I have found (with some guidance) two fucking [...]

Shit yeah! We present to you, the Nerds, our new poster for our 2011 C2E2 Kickoff Rock-tacular: Featuring Major Taylor, Chicago’s School of Rock, Valora, Boobs and Goombas (Super Mario Bros. BUrlesque), an appearance by Jeffrey Brown, Live Band Karaoke and much, much more, this is not, I repeat, not, to be missed. Sponsored by Threadless, Chicago [...]

Our friends @ Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art have really outdone themselves. Their new exhibit, New Chicago Comics, features art by local heroes Jeffrey Brown, Paul Hornschemeier, Lilli Carre, and Anders Nilsen. The exhibit runs until January 30th…so hurry. If you’re a Nerd…and I know you are, you gotta check this out. Learn all about New Chicago [...]

That’s right, our good buddy Onrie Kompan is releasing the epic third issue of his historical comic opus “Yi Soon Shin” tonight @ Chicago Comics from 6-9 p.m. Come by, meet the man, buy his book, it should be a good time had by all. By all! Learn everything you need to know about the Yi [...]

Nerd City welcomes very special guests, Eric Thornton of Chicago Comics and Pat Brower of Challengers.  They discuss all of the exciting things that each shop has coming up and just what makes Chicago comic book shop culture so cool. There is also a surprise appearance by Michael Moreci! On a related note, unforseen circumstances [...]

One of the most exciting things going on this Nerd-vember (copyright 2010), is the Comic Book Passport, an innovative new program from Chicago Comics, Challengers, Third Coast Comics, and First Aid Comics. All November long the stores are celebrating the diversity of Chicago’s Comic Shops. Starting November 1st, stop in to any of the 4 [...]

Don’t ask me why it took me so long to pick up Prison Pit (by Johnny Ryan and published by Fantagraphics). I have had a morbid curiosity about the book for quite some time. But it was only recently, following the release of the second volume, that I took the plunge and picked it up. [...]

While recently loitering @ our new home @ Chicago Comics, we stumbled across these bad boys: sweet 70’s style Venture Bros. action figures from toy maker Bif Bang Pow! I can not explain in words how cool these things are. I love the idea of taking a classic toy style and re-imagining it with cool, ripe-for-interpretation [...]

Our good buddies @ Threadless are celebrating their 10th anniversary right now! Not only are they having a huge sale on their site (it ends today, so hurry!),  they’ve also released this awesome book, detailing the history of the company, with tons of awesome pictures and stories. I got a chance to check it out, and it [...]

One of the coolest bits of business going down right now in the comic book world is the $1.00 comics promo that the big publishers are currently running. With Nerd’s budgets growing ever-tighter, it’s good to see that even as certain companies (who shall remain nameless) raise their prices to an outrageous $3.99 per book, [...]

I admit, occasionally, I do get sucked in to what ever cross-over event the major publications may be running. Sometimes, they are good…sometimes, they are very, very bad. I was however, particularly intrigued by Marvel’s new “Shadowland” storyline. As a big fan of Daredevil, and the “street level” heroes of the Marvel U (Ghost Rider, Moon [...]

While recently loitering @ Chicago Comics, I came across this unbelievably bad-ass book: Malcolm Venville’s Lucha Loco! Featuring tons of photos of mucho Luchadors, and hilarious snippets of interviews, this is the ultimate Nerd coffee/Mountain Dew table book. Learn all about Lucha Loco here. Get this book @ Chicago Comics!

A couple weeks ago, I posed a question to you: is it time for you to give up your super-hero books (you can read that post here)?  While I’ve received some interesting responses as to what you have been reading/picking up lately, I thought it may be nice to give you a few killer (see [...]

I need to preface today’s post with this disclaimer: to some of you, what I’m about to talk about isn’t something new.  However, I believe it’s something that needs to be said from time to time.  You know, for the children. Like most comic readers, there’s a good chance that among the first books you picked [...]

Following the smash success of last year’s “Get the F out of Rosemont” post-Wizard World drunkfest, comes Chicago Comics’ “Get the F out of Rosemont 2: The Squeakquel”, this Saturday night 8/21 from 7-11! With our main man Major Taylor spinning all the tightest jams, and beer and food available for those Nerds that like that [...]