We likely don’t have to remind you that Saturday is Christmas for comic lovers, Free Comic Book Day. It’s really hard for this day to get any better than it is naturally, but local comic shops have teamed up to create the ultimate Free Comic Book Day adventure. Strange Adventures (5262 Sackville Street and 101 […]
Strange Adventures, Halifax
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Strange Adventures’ new home
Late in 2012, Calum Johnston got the news in that “eight to 12 months” the building that his Strange Adventures (5262 Sackville Street) called home for over 20 years would be redeveloped, therefore forcing the shop out. Luckily though, the long-loved comic store will be able to stay downtown; Strange Adventures will move into a […]
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Taz Records is moving to Grafton Street
The new year’s first big retail news targeted the corner of Sackville and Market streets, bringing word that Strange Adventures, Night Magic and Taz Records were all on the hunt for new digs. The search was propelled when the building the three businesses operate out of was sold and slated for some major redevelopment. Coincidentally, […]
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Best Comics Store
Gold Winner Strange Adventures Comic Bookstore Silver Winner Quantum Frontier Games & Comics Bronze Winner Monster Comic Lounge Undefeated for years in the Best Comics Store category, it’s no wonder one voter calls Strange Adventures “that little doorway off the street into a world of gritty make-believe.” Open since 1993 and now with three Maritime […]
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Gifts for adults in local kids stores
The Adventures of Hergé by Jose-Louis Bouquet, Jean-luc Fromental and Stanislas Barthelemy, $20 An illustrated biography of Georges Prosper Remi, better known as Hergé, the creator of The Adventures of Tintin, from Montreal publishers Drawn & Quarterly. Tintin and his trusty pooch Snowy will be on the big screen later in December with a new […]
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Best Comics Store
Gold Winner Strange Adventures Comic Bookstore Silver Winner Quantum Frontier Games & Comics Bronze Winner Giant Robot Comics Strange Adventures is a really special place, and voters agree that it’s not just awesome because of what you can buy, but also because of the people who help you buy it. Manager Dave Howlett is one […]
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Free Comic Book Day this weekend
The annual comic book celebration Free Comic Book Day takes place this weekend, Saturday May 7, at comic stores around town, including Strange Adventures (5262 Sackville Street, 425-2140 and 101 Portland Street, Dartmouth, 444-2140). The Halifax store will also be taking over the Church of St David hall (1537 Brunswick Street) for the day since […]
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Best Comics Store
This year Strange Adventures reached across the harbour to start up a store in Dartmouth, at 101 Portland Street. It carries much of the new stuff and toys that you’ll find at the comic emporium’s Sackville Street location, with an added emphasis on classic and back-issue comics. A new location is a good thing, as […]
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Best Salesperson
Johanna Galipeau was 19 when she opened Sweet Pea on Queen Street in May 2007. Now, four years later, following that success with a new store, Twisted Muse, she’s the queen of Halifax retail, earning kudos in three key Best of Halifax categories. “I just always really wanted affordable clothes but offered in a high […]
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Dave Sim comes to Halifax
Kitchener, Ontario resident Dave Sim is the creator of Cerebus, the internationally acclaimed comic that ran for 300 issues from 1977 to 2004. It’s a massive achievement, by anyone’s standards, a 6,000 page work. He published it himself, under his Aardvark Vanaheim shingle. He wrote and drew the black and white comic on his own […]
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Free Comic Book Day Madness
Free Comic Book Day, the industry-wide, international promotion of comics, returns for another year, with plenty of opportunities for deals, as well as the requisite free comics from every major publisher. Quantam Frontier (3087 Robie Street, 446-8233) will have all that going on, as well as fundraising barbeque for Hal-Con (only 182 days left!!!) starting […]
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Get signed by Cameron Stewart
Award-winning Canadian comic artist Cameron Stewart is visiting Halifax for the first time this weekend, signing comics and saying hello. Fresh from illustrating a story arc for DC Comics’ Batman and Robin, Stewart writes from Paris about the newly finished project. “Working on Batman and Robin was a joy—I’ve been a fan of the writer, […]