Author: Wing
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3.8 Comics For Celebrating International Women’s Day
It’s 3/8 and that means it’s International Women’s Day! Here are 3 of our favorite comics about women’s rights and history (and 0.8 about women’s wrongs) for today’s Timely Content from Outsider Comics. Thanks for reading another of our recommendations! If you’d like to support us, a local woman-owned comic book store, you can buy…
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The Best Comic Distributor Packaging: a Review by My Cats
While Diamond’s latest announcement shook the comics world and got everyone (us included) debating the pros and cons of each comic book distributor, nobody is talking about the most important part of comic distribution: how comfy the boxes are for cats to sit in. In order to help bring this extremely important topic to the…
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Outsider Comic’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide Full of Incredibly Specific (Real) Graphic Novel Recommendations We Have Given
Are you shopping for someone who is incredibly hard to shop for? Or maybe someone who has very specific tastes? Or even someone you hate??? Well, we often get requests for comic recommendations from customers in our Seattle comic book store that start with “this is a weird question, but”. So maybe these will help…
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5 Comics of Trans Persistence for Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day where we mourn the trans and nonbinary siblings we have lost to violence and oppression, whether systematic or personal. It’s also the day where we continue to fight like hell so the list of names next year gets shorter. And like, to be honest, that task…
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5 All-Ages Comics for Trans Awareness Week
November 13th to 19th is Trans Awareness Week, a week where organizations around the world participate to increase the understanding of issues faced by transgender and nonbinary people. We kind of do that every week what with being a trans-owned small business that stocks many comics and graphic novels by and about trans and nonbinary…
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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…
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12 Graphic Novels for the 2024 SPL Teen Book Bingo
Summer is almost over but there’s still a long weekend if you want to finish your Seattle Public Library 2024 Teen Book Bingo card! Not sure what to read? We have a dozen suggestions for you from our teen graphic novel shelves. Every single one of these books are available at our shop in Seattle…
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Store News – August 2024
It is time! For another store news update thing! [Insert paragraph about it being hot and us having AC!] Things Will Be Slower in the Rest of August I am going in for (a minor in-patient) surgery tomorrow morning! Our hours should remain the same with Sable holding down the fort while I’m out out,…
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7 Graphic Novels for the 2024 SAL Kids Book Bingo
Every summer, Seattle Arts and Lectures publishes a kids / middle grade bingo card to help encourage kids to read over the summer. 2024 is no different and we’re excited to offer seven recommendations that fit multiple boxes for the kids bingo sheet, so if your family is looking for ideas for summer reading, check…
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Store News – July 2024
Congrats, you survived the first heatwave of the summer! In anticipation of future Times of Burning, perhaps consider getting some comics so you have something to read when the power goes down? Anyway, you know what else is hot? Outsider’s First Goblin Art Market It’s coming next week: our very first art market! We’ll be…