Herobear and the Kid LCSD Special One-Shot
(W/A) Mike Kunkel
Herobear and the Kid return! Tyler discovers a special comic he’s been searching for. Unable to pay for it, he instead creates his own comic about Herobear and trades it with the store owner, who is surprised to get it signed and delivered by the actual real-life Herobear.
Tiny Onion has revealed an exclusive spot gold variant edition of the highly anticipated Everything Dead & Dying #1 that will hit shelves on Local Comic Shop Day on September 27. The special variant features co-creator Jacob Phillips’ Cover A artwork, framed by gorgeous gold foil lettering, popping against a green background. Everything Dead & Dying LCSD Cover F (Lunar Code 0725IM874) will be available exclusively at participating local comic shops during the ComicsPRO annual community event.
Everything Dead & Dying is a haunting new zombie series by Eisner Award-nominated creators writer Tate Brombal and artist Jacob Phillips, coming from Tiny Onion and published by Image Comics. The five-issue comic book series will explore a different kind of undead story, where love transcends a heartbeat, and a man fights for what’s left of his family. Fans of The Walking Dead, Essex County, and The Last of Us will love this original western horror series, launching on September 3.
Local Comic Shop Day is a celebration of the role comic book shops play in their communities. These stores are more than just places to buy comics—they are cultural hubs where creativity thrives, friendships are formed, and stories come to life. The mission of LCSD is to highlight the unique impact of local comic shops, support these small businesses, and bring fans, creators, and retailers together in appreciation of the comics industry. Local Comic Shop Day honors the past, present, and future of these beloved neighborhood institutions.
ComicsPRO has announced that Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum have been tapped as the first ever Ambassadors for Local Comic Shop Day and will help promote this year’s event. Local Comic Shop Day takes place on September 27, 2025 and the two will be the voice of a campaign to help build awareness and generate enthusiasm for the day that helps celebrate local comic shops and their communities.
This year’s Local Comic Shop Day has been revamped with increased retailer support. Local Comic Shop Day 2025 focuses on comic shops as community hubs and will feature new branding, new activities, and new ways to celebrate why we shop local when we shop nerdy.
ComicsPRO is adding the following features to Local Comic Shop Day:
Sign ups to for Local Comic Shop Day participating retailers start June 23rd.
While many know Free Comic Book Day, there’s a second day to celebrate comics and your local shop, Local Comic Shop Day. The celebration in the past used to mainly feature variants to get folks in to buy and support their shop, but ComicsPRO, the organization that manages it, is changing things up for 2025 with a revamp.
Local Comic Shop Day 2025 focuses on comic shops as community hubs and will feature new branding, new activities, and new ways to celebrate why we shop local when we shop nerdy. The event, which will take place at comic shops internationally, on Saturday, September 27, will shift from its traditional variant-driven sales day to an entire campaign of events that will truly highlight what makes comic shops special.
In addition to the reimagined celebration, ComicsPRO also unveiled a new logo for Local Comic Shop Day. The logo, designed by Tim Daniel, writer and designer known for his work at Vault Comics and independent titles industry-wide spanning the last 20 years, reflects the idea of comic shops as a part of a neighborhood, while also invoking the small business feel.
ComicsPRO is adding the following features to Local Comic Shop Day:
Publishers can offer a variety of different items including exclusive variants, line-wide discounts, event-in-a-box packs, etc. For more details, contact: Kate deNeveu at thecomicbooklady@gmail.com.
Retailer sign-ups are starting next month. Stores who sign up will have access to the Local Comic Shop Day catalog, Discord, and website featuring training materials for their event. Retailers can contact Shannon Live at comicsproedu@gmail.com with additional questions.
Edenfrost, the Historical Fiction/Fantasy series written by Amit Tishler with art and colors by Bruno Frenda, is coming this November!
To celebrate this exciting new series, Mad Cave Studios has partnered with Local Comic Shop Day, the day that celebrates the independent spirit of local comic book shops, with a variant cover for Edenfrost #1 by Heather Vaughan.
After losing their parents in a pogrom, teenage siblings Alex and Yuli use the mystical power of a Golem to survive the chaos of the Russian Civil War. In a harrowing journey through war-torn Ukraine, the duo will face the harsh reality of warfare, ethnic bias, and national pride as they fight for their own place in the world.
This is the first series release in the Mad Cave Studios partnership with Amit Tishler. Edenfrost #1 is slated for release November 22. Letters by Ringo Award-winning Taylor Esposito, cover B by Christopher Mitten.
Skybound has revealed their two exclusive new limited edition covers debuting as part of Local Comic Shop Day, a celebration of comic book shops on Wednesday, November 22. Available exclusively in comic book shops, these new variants to Universal Monsters: Dracula #1 and #2 will only be available while supplies last and won’t be reprinted again.
One of the most-anticipated new launches of the season, Universal Monsters: Dracula, is debuting two new connected covers by all-star artist Jason Shawn Alexander for Local Comic Shop Day. The covers depict Dracula biting an unsuspecting victim—with Dracula on the cover of issue #1 and the victim on issue #2.
Skybound, in partnership with Universal Products & Experiences, will present Universal Monsters: Dracula #1, the debut issue of the extra-length four-part comic book limited series, in comic book shops next week. The highly anticipated limited series comes from the best-selling team of Eisner Award-winning writer James Tynion IV and artist Martin Simmonds, who have earned multiple Eisner Award nominations for their hit series The Department of Truth.
When Dr. John Seward admits a strange new patient into his asylum, the madman tells stories of a demon who has taken residence next door. But as Dr. Seward attempts to apply logic to the impossible…his surrogate daughter Lucy begins to fall under the spell of the twisted Count Dracula!
The available Local Comic Shop Day issues and covers include:
BOOM! Studios has revealed four highly collectible exclusive variant covers for several of their bestselling and upcoming must-read series, available on Local Comic Shop Day 2022, taking place on Wednesday, November 23, 2022 only at participating comics retailers. To find your participating local comic shop, visit localcomicshopday.com.
These four stunning variant covers feature highly-anticipated art from superstar illustrators, including:
Local Comic Shop Day is an annual event that began in 2014, conceived and implemented by ComicsPRO, the only trade organization dedicated to the progress of direct market comic book retailers, to call attention to locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, celebrating their unique and vital role as the primary fire-starters of pop culture. Pop Culture begins in your Local Comic Shop!
Local Comic Shop Day is teaming up with Image Comics this year to bring fans a special sketch cover variant of Charles Soule and Ryan Browne’s Eight Billion Genies #1 and will co-host an exciting Instagram contest to get readers’ creative juices flowing.
This special Local Comic Shop Day exclusive variant will feature a cardstock cover showcasing a blank genie silhouette for fans to personalize with their own sketch. Image Comics will also be running an exciting Instagram contest for fans to join the fun online too (follow @imagecomics and stay tuned for details).
Fans will have an opportunity to submit their own genie illustrations for a chance to be one of five lucky entrants to win a signed and remarqued copy of the Eight Billion Genies deluxe hardcover for themselves and a local comic shop of their choosing. (No purchase necessary. Sketch entries do not need to be done on a LCSD variant in order to qualify. Contest will run from 11/23 thru 11/30. Follow @imagecomics on Instagram for full contest details when they are announced).
If you had one wish…what would you wish for? Now, what if everyone else had one wish too? That’s Eight Billion Genies. At exactly the same moment, everyone on earth gets a genie and one wish. All hell breaks loose, in a very entertaining way…and that’s just the beginning. Since its launch, Amazon Studios has gone on to acquire the development rights to this bestselling series in a heated auction. The first project coming out of the deal is a feature film, which will be executive produced by Soule and Browne and serve as the cornerstone in a cross-media Universe of storytelling.
Local Comic Shop Day is sponsored by ComicsPRO—the trade organization for comic book stores. ComicsPRO is a volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to improving the comic book specialty market.
Local Comic Shop Day returns for its eighth year on November 23! The annual event organized by ComicsPRO, comics industry’s trade organization, celebrates the independent spirit of local comic book shops and encourages customers to visit their local shops during the holiday season! Marvel will participate once again, this time with two Local Comic Shop Day Variant Covers! In honor of the 60th anniversary of Spider-Man, they’ll grace the covers of November’s issues of both of Spider-Man’s current ongoing series: Zeb Wells and John Romita Jr.’s Amazing Spider-Man and Dan Slott and Mark Bagley’s Spider-Man. Drawn by acclaimed artist Francesco Mobili, these dramatic pinups showcase everyone’s favorite webslingers—Peter Parker and Miles Morales!
Be sure to contact your local comic shop for inquiries regarding availability! Check out both covers below and celebrate the place where a passion for Pop Culture begins on Local Comic Shop Day!
Image Comics has announced three exciting Local Comic Shop Day editions to join the lineup of releases for next month’s celebration of the Direct Market comic shops: The Walking Dead Deluxe #27, Friday #1, and Grrl Scouts: Stone Ghost #1. These three special LCSD editions will not be reprinted—so don’t miss out and be sure to support your local comic shop on Wednesday, November 24 (and every day!)—and visit the Local Comic Shop Day website for more information about the event.
Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Dave McCaig’s The Walking Dead Deluxe #27 Local Comic Shop Day edition (Diamond Code AUG219266) will feature a foil treatment on the cover logo. This is a key issue in the series that readers won’t want to miss out on—Welcome to Woodbury, home to the series’ most heinous villain… The Governor.
Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martín’s Friday #1 Local Comics Shop Day edition (Diamond Code AUG219265) presents the first issue of the genre-defying, post-YA masterpiece by award winning creators. Friday Fitzhugh spent her childhood solving crimes and digging up occult secrets with her best friend Lancelot Jones, the smartest boy in the world. But that was the past. Now she’s in college, starting a new life on her own—or so she thought. When Friday comes home for the holidays, she’s immediately pulled back into Lance’s orbit and finds that something very strange and dangerous is happening in their little New England town… This is literally the Christmas vacation from Hell, and they may not survive to see the New Year.
Jim Mahfood’s Grrl Scouts: Stone Ghost #1 Local Comic Shop Day edition (Diamond Code AUG219267) will feature a new cover by Mahfood. This new miniseries sees Mahfood’s return to his creator-owned GRRL SCOUTS universe. Join Dio, Turtleneck Jones, and Gordi as they face off against the sinister and unpredictable evil of The Teeth! Hilarious, over-the-top, psychedelic adventure will ensue, you guys! Packed from cover to cover (no ads!) with completely unique and eye-poppin’ Mahfood art, including bonus comics and behind-the-scenes fun!
