Category: Store News
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Free Comic Book Day 2026
It’s back: Free Comic Book Day! This year it brings its legally distinct friend sponsored by rival distributor Comic Giveaway Day, and both FCBD and CGD will be happening on Saturday 5/2! That’s right: two free comic book days, on the same day! Hooray! We will be once again participating in the best of comic…
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We’re on Bookshop.org and Libro.fm!
We joined Bookshop.org and that means you can now select Crow’s Nest Comics as your bookstore on there and give us 30% of all proceeds from your purchases! That goes for any kind of book—including DRM-free ebooks! You can also directly visit our Bookshop.org store where you can find some curated lists of books just…
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We’re Crow’s Nest Comics Now?
Behold, we have a new name and Branding! Well, temporary new Branding with a temporary logo Wing whipped up in like 20 minutes using existing assets since our brand new logo is still cooking. :3 Anyway, yes, with the current move and the 9th anniversary of the store happening Soon we decided that it’s finally…
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Moving Update and Fundraiser
So lots of folks have asked “what are you moving exactly?” and we actually haven’t had an answer… but now we do: October 19th is the last day we’ll be in Fremont. Why didn’t we have that info until now? Well… Bad news! Our move is costing us at least $10,000 more than we budgeted…
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We’re Moving!
Quick version: Our lease is ending in October and we’ll be moving to the Central District near the intersection of Dearborn and Rainier, a little north of Exit 3 north on I-90. Currently we plan on moving in October with a week or two of closure. Wanna help? We’ll have a Moving Sale in September;…
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Magic the Gathering: Final Fantasy Events and Preorders
Hi friends, it’s almost time for 2025’s most anticipated Magic the Gathering set (sorry Tarkir we still love you) and we are, for the first time, doing preorders and such! Since there’s more info than usual I’m dropping a Blog Post. :3 Prerelease We’re doing not one, not two, but THREE prerelease flights this time…
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How Do We Select Comics for Donation to Books to Prisoners?
No matter what your view on the criminal “justice” system in the US is, one thing is certain: denying prisoners the right to read and to learn is cruel and evil. Non-profits like Books to Prisoners Seattle have been fighting the good fight to get books to incarcerated folks for decades, and we are proud…
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So About Those Tariffs
I don’t even know how to start. Anyway, I’m not going to be too specific about numbers because they seem to change daily depending on the mood of Donald Trump and/or Elon Musk and I’d like what I write to be true at least until I finish writing it. Also I’m not going to be…
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Store News – October 2024
Welcome to the October edition of the Outsider newsletter / update / thing! Let’s get right to it! In case you missed it we’re now an *award winning* local comic book store! We won the 2024 Cross-Cultural Champion Intentionalist Award earlier this week, literally right on our anniversary! Speaking of the anniversary, I wrote up…
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Two Year Anniversary Update!
It’s been two years since I became part (and eventually full) owner of Outsider so… let’s have an update! (Outsider has been around since 2016-ish, but I am considering this the store’s second anniversary because it was exactly two years ago when I signed papers and stuff. If you’d like to know The Full Story…