08/27/2025
Hi friends,
If you have, not only a surviving, but a thriving, comic shop, for 37 years, you're doing something(s) right.
That's the wonderful Joe Field and his FlyCo Retailing Brigade at his world famous Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff shop in Concord, California.
Today was the official world premiere release event of my graphic novel Enigmatown, published by Red 5 Comics, written and lettered by myself, Alex De Luca, art by Victoria Carmina, with Free Comic Book Day art by Abrielle Terzian and cover AND frontispiece (look it up) art by the legendary Gary Amaro, who was there with me at the event.
I'm glad to point out that the numerous doubts I received of an event In the middle of the afternoon on a Wednesday having any success were completely unfounded.
It was a fantastic success! In fact, I did better at this middle of the afternoon weekday 2-hour long store event than I've done at a weekend several-hour long convention.
Thank you, Joe, Flying Colors, cover artist Gary Amaro and very much most importantly you, the reader, who took their very valuable time and spent their money on this graphic novel. I hope you enjoy it.
It was a special treat seeing my friend Chuck Todd come by 💙.