Author: Wing
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Two of Them! (They’re Two!)
The store cats are two years old today! Anyway, I guess this is a good time to mention that we do in fact have store cats now! Magpie and Stellar’s Jay now live at the shop and have an infinite supply of boxes to sit in. They’re even on the official staff page with job…
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From Black History to Black Futures: 7 Graphic Novel Recommendations
Thanks for reading another of our recommendations! If you’d like to support us, a local minority-owned comic book store, you can buy the comics above and many more at our online store or on Bookshop.org. Or drop by our brick and mortar shop in Seattle if you’d like some personalized recommendations!
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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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It’s a Wrap! Here’s Our Bestselling Comics of 2025
Everybody is doing is so we are also doing a 2025 summary! We’ve compiled our bestselling comics in general and in several categories, and you can see them right after this paragraph because we’re bad at algorithms and not hiding the actual thing you probably came here for under 70,000 words of random text. But…
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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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20 Graphic Novels for the 2025 SPL Adult Book Bingo
One of our favorite time of the year is here: summer reading for grown-ups, and getting to recommend books for it! The Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts and Lectures partner up every summer to bring the city an Adult Book Bingo, with 25ish squares to read and fill. Finding so many books to read…
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Chocobo Racing Draft Series
For July, we’ll be running a special series of Magic the Gathering Final Fantasy drafts as part of the Chocobo Racing promotion! Play drafts, win matches, and bring friends to get points (which are recorded via stickers on a poster elementary school style) and win prizes when you accumulate enough points. More prizes are available…
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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…