Celebrate an all-star lineup of comics creators and the publisher that makes it all happen with this collection of favorites from DSTLRY! Every DSTLRY book is creator-owned, so your support goes directly to the people who make the comics. Embark on a tense time-travel yarn in Time Waits, a sci-fi adventure from Chip Zdarsky, David Brothers, and Marcus To! Uncover the secrets of a fantastical floating city in Simon Spurrier and Matías Bergara’s A Mischief of Magpies! Survive the witch hunts and awaken supernatural beings in Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay’s erotic folk-horror Somna! Discover even more incredible stories and journeys into the unknown in this bundle of more than 40 fan-favorite comics! Name your price, and support the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (BINC) with your purchase!
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Explore daring, futuristic science fiction like you’ve never seen it before with this bundle of African-inspired novels and short story collections from Nnedi Okorafor, Wole Talabi, and Adam Oyebanji! Learn the secrets of an interspecies conflict through the eyes of a young astronaut in Okorafor’s Binti: The Complete Trilogy! Solve an impossible crime in Oyebanji’s genre-blending mystery Esperance! Follow a man with electric skin, a woman trying to save her brother from Mars, an engineer troubleshooting a malfunctioning AI, and more in Talabi’s short story collection Convergence Problems! All of these and more ebooks are included in this bundle, proving that the realms of Africanfuturism have never been more thrilling. Get them now at the price of your choice, and support BINC with your purchase!
A Twin Cities bookseller committed to celebrating Black authors, publishers, and readers has won the eighth Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activists awarded by the Friends of Carla Gray Committee and the Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation.
Jasmine Baker from Black Garnet Books in St. Paul, Minnesota, will receive a year-long scholarship for professional development, which includes travel and hotel to attend Winter Institute 2027, travel and hotel to attend their 2027 regional fall tradeshow and a $2,000 stipend to fund a community outreach project.
Baker will use the stipend to host the store’s second annual Midwest Black Book Fair and expand the project to other states across the Midwest.
The days are getting colder, the nights are getting longer, and spooky season is officially upon us. Lean into the scary vibes with this Humble Bundle of horror comics and graphic novels from IDW! Explore an idyllic small town of anthropomorphic animals protected by a serial killer bear in the Richard Scarry-esque murder mystery Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees! Follow an all-women crew of inmate firefighters as they stage a heist during a rampaging California wildfire in the first of Scott Snyder’s anthology series Dark Spaces: Wildfire! Discover the truth of a strange sleeping illness in the graphic novel adaptation of Stephen and Owen King’s Sleeping Beauties! Survive the bloody horrors of the vampire-infested Alaska town in the Deluxe Edition of 30 Days of Night! All of these and more are included in this spooky bundle of horror comics, so grab them now at the price of your choosing and support BINC with your purchase!
Five booksellers were selected to receive a $10,000 prize that provides the aspiring writer-booksellers with the financial support to focus on a full-length manuscript. The Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Prize was established by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and bestselling author Charles Duhigg and his wife Liz Alter, a professor of biology at California State University Monterey Bay. The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation administers the prize.
The prize is named for Kamil, who was executive vice president and publisher of Random House when she died in 2019. Her publishing career, spanning more than 40 years, began in the 1970s working in the children’s book division of Macmillan Publishers. Over those years she was known for recognizing new literary voices and introducing them to the public.
This year’s recipients:
Toni Chappell is a former journalist and the owner of Fiction: A Novel Bookshop in Wiscasset, Maine. She holds an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from England’s Bath Spa University and is the author of two historical fiction works-in-progress. Short-list honors include the Janklow & Nesbit Bath Spa Prize (2019) and the Fish Poetry Prize (2021). Toni champions human authors, is an avid reader, walker, lazy-river kayaker, and once took a spin in an F-18 with the Blue Angels. Her two daughters and a standard poodle named Peach are not-so-silent partners in the bookshop.
Erica Caldwell owned and operated a bookstore for eight years and has since worked at several bookstores throughout Western New York, including her current position as buyer at Author’s Note in Medina, NY. She holds a BS in Creative Writing with a minor in Biology. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have previously appeared in The Dire Elegies: 59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America and War, Literature, and the Arts. Her submitted manuscript is a work of historical eco-fiction.
Daniel Isaiah Elder is the recipient of an Emerging LGBTQ Writer Fellowship from Lambda Literary, as well as an Art/Lab Fellowship for Jewish artists. His essays and short fiction have appeared in The Rumpus, Catapult, X-Ray Literary, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and many more literary journals and magazines. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his partner and their blended family of three children. He’s proud to be a bookseller at Annie Bloom’s Books, a small independent bookstore soon celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Nicole Yackley is a poet, bookseller, and artist from GA. Her work has been published in Belletrist Magazine and Sixfold Magazine, among others. A series of her poems were set to music by Mikeila McQueston and performed as a chamber piece for the 2019 Nief-Norf festival. The piece won the Constantinides New Music Ensemble Call for Scores prize, was performed at Carnegie Hall in 2022, and was later a finalist for The American Prize in Composition—vocal chamber music (college/university division), 2023. She has a BA in English from UGA and an MFA in Poetry from UTK where she studied under Joy Harjo. Her poetry can be found at nicoleyackley.com.
Amanda R. Toronto is the children’s buyer at WORD Bookstores in Brooklyn, NY, and Jersey City, NJ. She is a former buyer and manager at the Shakespeare & Co. bookstores in New York City. Amanda serves on the board of NAIBA and holds a PhD in English and American Literature from New York University. She lives in New York City with her husband and children. Her manuscript is a work of literary fiction.
The finalists were:
Adrianne Berlage, Barnes & Noble, Washington
Jane Estes, Lark and Owl Booksellers, Texas
Pamela Huber, Fireside Books, Arkansas
Richard Hunt, Roebling Books & Coffee, Kentucky
Gina Marks, Book + Bottle, Florida
Derek McCormack, The Provincetown Bookshop, Massachusetts
Own the night alongside the Caped Crusader with the Batman Day Comics Bundle 2026! Pay what you want for a catalog of modern classics by the biggest Batman artists and writers like Dan Watters, Scott Snyder, and Nick Dragotta. Read the Bat’s action‑packed comics, including Batman: Dark Patterns, Batman Vol. 1–10 (2011–2016), and Absolute Batman Vol. 1: The Zoo. Bring your imagination and celebrate Batman Day with the Dark Knight’s greatest adventures, and help support the BINC Foundation with your purchase!
Celebrate multi‑time Eisner and Harvey Award winner author Kurt Busiek’s most popular works with The 30th Anniversary Humble Bundle by Image Comics! Lose yourself in the complete Astro City series! How do average people, support teams, and even villains navigate day‑to‑day life in a world where being truly super is possible—read volumes 1‑17 and see what makes Astro City so unforgettable. Or explore The Autumnlands, an epic tale that melds mature themes with high‑fantasy wizardry! Pay what you want for critically acclaimed comics and help support The BINC Foundation with your purchase!
The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation is accepting applications for the Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activistsfrom September 2-20, 2026. The winning bookseller will be awarded a year-long scholarship for professional development, which includes travel and hotel to attend Winter Institute 2027, travel and hotel to attend their 2027 regional fall tradeshow and a $2,000 stipend to fund a community outreach project. Eligibility requirements and the application can be found here.
In recognition of rising costs, the travel and hotel allowances have increased, and the project stipend has doubled from $1,000 to $2,000.
The goal of the community outreach project is to find new readers and ensure access to books that improve readers’ lives while integrating bookstores even more fully into their communities. Meet past winners and learn about their projects.
This year’s scholarship will be the eighth awarded by the Friends of Carla Gray Committee and the Binc Foundation. It is intended to help a bookseller with at least one, but fewer than 10 years of experience connect with other booksellers, publishers and authors, and establish the long-term relationships needed to keep the book industry thriving.
Some of the greatest writers and artists in comics have left their mark on the Valiant Universe. Now, their extraordinary work comes together in one massive Humble Bundle. Experience Valiant through the work of legendary and acclaimed artists including Joe Quesada, Barry Windsor-Smith, Bob Layton, Cary Nord, Clayton Crain, Mico Suayan, and Lewis LaRosa — artists whose unforgettable imagery helped define Valiant across generations. And the stories are just as extraordinary. Discover groundbreaking work from an incredible roster of writers including Jim Shooter, Christopher Priest, Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, Robert Venditti, Joshua Dysart, Fred Van Lente, and Cullen Bunn — creators who helped build, reinvent, and expand one of the most acclaimed superhero universes in comics. From X-O Manowar and Bloodshot to Harbinger, Eternal Warrior, Shadowman and beyond, this isn’t simply a collection of great Valiant stories. It’s a showcase of the creators who made Valiant legendary. Explore an incredible collection of Valiant comics, choose your price, and support BINC with your purchase. The heroes are iconic. The creators are legendary. The Valiant Universe is yours.
The decade may only be half over, but the 2020s have been good to Image Comics, one of the most exciting publishers of the day that is consistently putting out great stuff. To celebrate Image’s recent successes, Humble Bundle has put together a megabundle of their best series, so that longtime fans and new readers can find their new favorite stories! This bundle includes collected volumes of tech dystopian superhero story The Dead Lucky, rural Canadian horror series Fishflies, intergalactic warrior drama Free Agents, geriatric battle royale action series Golden Rage, child vampire saga Little Monsters, and more! If those sound good to you, just wait to see what else is in store in this giant—and we mean giant—bundle of Image’s best new comics! Grab them now at the price of your choice, and support BINC with your purchase!
