Attention Forbidden Planet NYC firends and customers! You are hereby invited to a super rad, FREE, Walking Dead event featuring Robert Kirkman this coming Friday night! It’s part of an all day multi-media jam, so […]
92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center presents Art Spiegelman—MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic In conversation with Hillary Chute Thursday, October 6, 8 PM To purchase tickets for just $10, please visit http://92y.org/Uptown/Event/Art-Spiegelman–MetaMaus-at-25.aspx First published in […]
New shirts from Rotten Cotton in stock NOW in-store and online at fpnyc.com!!! Fright Night Hellraiser Big Trouble in Little China And the piece de resistance, Monster Squad There’s a bunch more that’ve come in, […]
We’re co-sponsoring a Simon Pegg event at the Strand next Monday! In-store book signing with Simon Pegg, author of: Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy’s Journey to Becoming A Big Kid Presented by Forbidden Planet […]
By Shannon H. There is a small but strong wave of darkly satisfying manga this week. In particular, the long-awaited second volume of March Story, a lovely horror manhwa with the most elegant gothic drawings […]
In Stock and highly recommended, Diamond Comics #6! What is Diamond Comics? It’s a newspaper of experimental comics that blurs the lines between the worlds of illustration, graphic design, and comics. Inspired by similar experimental […]
By Shannon H. Despite all the great titles coming out this week, Black Butler Volume 5 and 20th Century Boys Volume 14 among them, there is only one thing to talk about at the moment, […]
Though FPNYC is now officially old (but young in a cosmic sense!) we haven’t been around quite as long as Doctor Who (47 years and counting!). Catch up on nearly five decades of continuity with […]
Coming this Tuesday, April 5th… comic artist superstar Frank Quitely (We3, Batman and Robin) in conversation with Jose Villarrubia (Conan, Batman Year 100) a few blocks away from Forbidden Planet! Forbidden Planet’s hawking advance tickets […]
Fascinating. Science writer Lee Billings has been guest blogging for BoingBoing this week, dissecting NASA’s big Kepler news and exploring other exoplanetary pursuits. Have ya heard the one about Bill Murray at a Bears playoff […]
Sweet Jeebus! Here’s a spectacular fan film based on the singularly amazing comic AXE COP. Kick Axe! Axe Cop: The Movie – Part 1 from Peter Muehlenberg on Vimeo.
Outrageous astronomical SF film goofs from Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy blogger for Discover magazine. Donate or renew your Comic Book Legal Defense Fund membership at the Protector or Champion level and receive a limited edition, […]
The above image is a QR code. What the hell is that? Well: A QR Code is a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones. The code […]
J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Amazing Spider-Man, Thor) is apparently shopping his adaptation of Unca Harlan’s “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Tictockman as a feature film. “Since this has apparently leaked onto several film-oriented websites, I […]
Reason numero uno to be cheerful if you’re a comics fan on this January Wednesday? The re-release of Casanova in graphic novel format. Meet Casanova Quinn: prodigal son of a law-and-order family hell-bent on keeping […]
We’re now in the second day of what we expect to become a long tradition… The Forbidden Planet Daily Deal. Now we’re offering a select group of items on sale in-store and online every single […]
Buffy’s 30th birthday is this Wednesday, January 19th, and to celebrate we’ll be running some specials, a costume contest, a sing-along, and a whole lotta good times. Via Dark Horse Facebook: To celebrate the birthday of Buffy […]
Aside from his duties at the shop, FPNYC assistant manager Alec Lewellyn is a talented cartoonist, hard at work on the second issue of his self-published wresting comic, Big Title. The new installment is coming […]
For the ladies with a fine appreciation of the Three Wolf Moon shirt, the official Star Wars Shop is now offering this:
Comics Stripped, a new exhibit at the Museum of Sex here in NYC, opens today. Comics historian Craig Yoe (Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster, Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings) is serving […]
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