Do you love buttons? We do!

You can put em on your jacket, your back pack, your shoes - ANYTHING!

Come by East Side Mags on Saturday, February 16th between 1pm and 5pm and create your very own buttons with YOUR ART! 

$6 per person gets you 5 custom 1.5" buttons made with YOUR DESIGN! We'll provide all the supplies - all we need is YOU!!!

Call us at 862-333-4961 or our Contact page if you have any questions.

See you there!!!

You wanted it? You got it! Cosplay Karaoke is BACK!!

Join Cape Swoosh Productions and East Side Mags on Saturday, February 9th at 7 PM as we rock the night away with killer tunes and crazy cosplay! There may even be a prize or two for the costume and the song of the night...but of course the REAL prize is the friends we make along the way.

Swing on by and dazzle us!

East Side Mags welcomes back Pat Shand - comic writer extraordinaire!

Pat is cranking out books like you wouldn’t believe so we were super lucky that he’s got some time in his schedule to come back out to Jersey!

He recently released his new series for Black Mask Studios called Snap Flash Hustle! SFH is about a downtrodden model in NYC who finds out that the posh, elite models live a life of drugs and crime - and she LIKES IT! We’ll have copies of #1 for sale with #2 coming out the Wednesday before the signing!

Pat is also known for a plethora of other comics including, but not limited to, Charmed Season 10, Destiny NY, Breathless, Little Girl!

Come meet Pat, get some comics signed and hang out with us! He’ll be here from 1pm-4pm!

At 6PM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, East Side Mags is hosting their midnight prerelease for the new card set – RAVNICA ALLEGIANCE! 

Join us!  $25.99 to play and prizes will be available for the Top 8 players! 

Got what it takes?

At 1PM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, East Side Mags is hosting their midnight prerelease for the new card set – RAVNICA ALLEGIANCE! 

Join us!  $25.99 to play and prizes will be available for the Top 8 players! 

Got what it takes?

Join us for a SPECIAL DRAFT unlike anything East Side Mags has run before!

Ultimate Masters is HERE and we’ve got just enough product to host a MEGA-DRAFT!

$50 entry gets you (3) packs of Ultimate Masters to draft with for the tournament. Set up your deck and play (3) intense rounds of Magic the Gathering!

Prizes will be awarded to the Top 3 spots ONLY. Prizes include more packs of UM and the first place winner will also get a coveted box topper!

To make it even better, we’ll have 2 additional box toppers that we’ll be raffling off at the end of the tournament. Tickets are $1 each and you can buy as many as you want - but you MUST be here at the end of the tournament to claim your prize!

Max capacity for this event is 24 so reserve your spot today. Sign up by calling 862-333-4961 or email jeff@eastsidemags.com.

Game on!

Have you ever met Liana Kangas?

She’s an amazing artist from NJ who’s worked on a variety of comic anthologies and the most recent issue of Black AF Devil’s Dye #1 from Black Mask Studios!

Did you get a chance to meet Vita Ayala?

They’re an amazing writer who’s worked on dozens of books including but NOT limited to Livewire #1 from Valiant Comics, The Wilds from Black Mask Studios, Marvel Knights #4 from Marvel Comics and Magic the Gathering Chandra #1 from IDW.

Both amazing people will be here on January 5th from 1pm-4pm, signing copies of their comics, sketching for customers and helping ESM ring in the new year with STYLE!

Make sure you come say hi and start your year off right!

Meet Paul Belliveau! You might have seen his Darth Maul prints hanging in the shop. He’s an amazing artist and we’re BIG fans of his work so we’ve decided we can’t keep him to ourselves - it’s time to share him with the WORLD!

Paul moved to Glen Ridge from Brooklyn in 2014 with his wife. He went to NYU for Painting and studied Traditional Animation at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). He’s a huge comic fan and has worked from companies like Fleer and Skybox, he worked as an animator for Between the Lions on PBS has worked as a storyboard artist for TV Commercials.

Paul will be hanging out with us from 1pm-5pm, sketching on blank covers and honing his skills as he gets ready to launch his Kickstarter next year called The 20k!

Come meet Paul and find out more info about his upcoming Kickstarter, what it’s like to be an animator and an artist and maybe he’ll even tell you his favorite place to get baked goods and homemade candy!

Just in time for the holidays - Archie Comics is taking OVER East Side Mags!

Betty & Veronica #1 is out and we’ve got writer Jamie Lee Rotante here from 1pm-4pm! She’ll be signing copies of the new hit B&V comic and hanging out with us! If her name sounds familiar, that’s cuz you’ve probably read or heard about the Betty & Veronica Vixens series or maybe you’ve just read some of her live punk music reviews for Razorcake or even some of her satirical / humor articles for TheHardTimes.net!

Regardless of how you know her, you know she’s a fire ball and we’re super excited to get to hang out with her right before the holidays! We’ll have copies of Jamie’s work on hand for her to sign and we’ll be listening to awesome music so come hang out!

To top it all off, we’ll also be hosting a special pop up shop for the new Betty & Veronica clothing line! More details on this are coming soon…

Join East Side Mags and Valiant Comics for a pop-up signing unlike ANY other in the comics industry to date!

Valiant Comics is launching a brand new Livewire series - written by Vita Ayala - and East Side Mags is SUPER PROUD to have Vita back in our space! She’s literally the nicest person you’ll ever meet and has written awesome stories like The Wilds (Black Mask Studios), Submerged (Vault Comics) and Twisted Romance (Image Comics).

In addition to meeting Vita, you’ll be able to get Livewire #1 signed!

Valiant will be here as well and, as one of the hardest working publishers in the business, we’ll have a single copy of the Livewire #1 GLASS COVER variant! Yes! Valiant has a 1:250 variant featuring a real GLASS cover!

Come by between 1pm-2pm, get a copy of Livewire #1, get it signed, hang out with Vita and check out a comic with a glass cover! Can’t wait to see you all here!

UPDATE (12/10/18): Some things to note in advance of Saturday:

1. The weather prediction for Saturday might call for rain. The line will be OUTSIDE. Please plan accordingly. We have a small shop and will only be letting in small groups of people at a time.

2. When you get inside the shop, PLEASE GO TO THE REGISTER FIRST to pay for your item(s). Then, you will wait in line along the other side of the store for your turn for signatures and pictures.

3. Reminder: you may bring TWO (2) personal items from home and MUST BUY AT LEAST ONE (1) ITEM from East Side Mags. We appreciate your patronage as a portion of the proceeds will be going to charity.

4. The line is expected to cross in front of a few other businesses on the block and possibly a driveway. PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF OUR NEIGHBORS.

5. You are welcome to come by the shop as early as you want. WE WILL START LINING PEOPLE UP AT 12PM NOON.

6. We accept cash and credit cards. We are not set up for Apple or Samsung Pay at this time. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

7. If you have any further questions, please let us know.

We have Wave 2 (final wave) of items available for purchase coming tomorrow. Any other notes will be made available here (the Facebook Event Discussion page).

We are SO excited to see everyone. Looking forward to meeting everyone on Saturday!

-Team East Side Mags

East Side Mags had an amazing year already so it wouldn’t seem right to end 2018 without yet another MAJOR signing event!

This holiday season, welcome the King of Seas – ORM THE OCEAN MASTER aka Patrick Wilson, to the East Side Mags family! I mean, we’ll find out next week if he keeps the throne but for now, he’s King of the Seven Seas!

Patrick Wilson is a Montclair local, an amazing actor, singer and one of the nicest people you will EVER meet!  He’s a comic fan’s mainstay having taken on the role of Night Owl in Watchmen and now Orm, the Ocean Master, in Warner Bros & DC Comics big screen adaptation of Aquaman alongside Jason Mamoa, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

Patrick will be here on December 15th from 2pm-5pm to hang out with fans and sign stuff like Orm POP Vinyls, Aquaman promotional items and more! We will also be donating a portion of our proceeds to a charity of Patrick’s choice!

Details on the signing are as follows:

• East Side Mags will have related items for sale: Patrick has portrayed a variety of roles in both comic book movies, horror movies and more. East Side Mags is asking each attendee to buy at least one (1) item from the store and will have POP vinyl figures of Orm, NYCC exclusive movie poster variant cover Aquaman comics featuring the cast and more items reflecting Patrick Wilson’s career in movies and pop culture.

• Guest are invited to bring personal items:  East Side Mags is inviting attendees to bring up to two (2) personal items from home for Patrick to sign.

• No tickets required: Everyone coming to the event will be asked to form a line and the signing will be on a first come, first served basis.

• Photos: Patrick Wilson will, in fact, be available for photos with attendees when they are getting their items signed

• Community: East Side Mags and Patrick Wilson are going to be donating a portion of the proceeds from the signing to a charity TBD (more info coming soon).

Need a seriously awesome and unique holiday gift? This is your best chance to get something that you will NOT be able to get anywhere else, meet a great Hollywood actor portraying an amazing comic character and have an experience to last you at least until the sequel comes out!

So walk, run, swim, boat or fly as fast as you can to East Side Mags on 12/15!

Join us on Sunday, December 9th for the Clifton Show! America's favorite and longest running monthly comic book show!

The show runs from 10-4 at The Clifton Community Recreation Center, 1232 Main Ave, Clifton, NJ 07011.

Admission is FREE as always during our regular show hours of 10-4!

But... more and more collectors have been coming to shop before the show is officially open. So... from 8:30 to 10:00 there will be a $5 early bird admissioncharge. Earlybirds must use only the front entrance to the building. For security reasons, only vendors loading in can use the back entrance prior to 10.


Once again we will have everything from CGC investment grade keys to 25 cent readers... supplies and some action figures as well.

Our notorious no minimum bid auction is at noon.

Be sure to check out our website: http://www.njcomicbookshows.com/

Join us for a FREE Comic Drawing Workshop with freelance artist. Angie Fernot at East Side Mags.

https://www.instagram.com/afernot
https://angelafernot.wordpress.com/about/

This event is part of Indie Arts Montclair's Montclair Skillshare weekend.

PUT DOWN THOSE LEFTOVERS!

It’s SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY - you chance to REALLY show the community that you like to shop local! And since it’s the holidays and we appreciate your business all year round - we’ve got some really great offers and discounts for you!

50% OFF Bin Back Issues!

20% off all action figures and EVERYTHING in our glass cases!

50% off select wall books!

20% off trade paperbacks and hard covers!

How awesome is that?

Don’t forget - Montclair is the spot for your “Passport to Shopping”. Check out the Welcoming Station on Church Street to get your Passport and check out the (9) donation baskets provided by participating retailers in town - including your favorite local comic shop ;) Then take your Passport to participating business in the Montclair Center area, get it signed/stamped to redeem for tickets to enter into the raffles to win the baskets. One stamp = 1 raffle ticket!!! This will be ongoing from 10am-5pm!

Local Comic Shop Day is here again and, as always, we appreciate the love and support and support that you - the community - have shown us over the years!

That’s why we plan to bring you the BEST LCSD event we can pull together! With that in mind, may East Side Mags present:

THE EXCLUSIVES: LCSD allows us access to dozens of exclusive variant covers, special items and signed comics that you can ONLY get in participating local comic shops. That’s US! Check out some of the cool items we’ve got for you (at cover price, NOT inflated collectible pricing) like:

THE SKETCHING: Join rockstar local artists Brigid Allanson, Angie Fernot and Nick Justus from 1pm-5pm as they sketch on blank cover comics and offer up prints, original artwork and more for sale! Let’s face it, comics would just be books without the art and these 3 make a trifecta to be reckoned with! You won’t find a better collective of amazing artists outside of a comic convention in 2018!!!

THE SALE: Believe it or not, we still have some LCSD exclusives left over from previous years and a TON of comics in our possession. It’s kinda what we do. So here’s the details on the sale:

• 50% off all previous year’s LCSD exclusives

• 50% off select (tagged) wall books

• Buy 2 - Get 1 FREE bin back issues (and the boxes under them)

• 3 for $25 (regularly priced) Funko POP Vinyls

Plus - don’t forget we’ve got dollar boxes that go from one wall to the other so have at it and remember, not only are they $1 each but you can get 12 for $10 or 25 for $20!!!

Here are some details regarding out sale this Saturday:

*Items already on hold prior to the sale are not discountable
*Store credit cannot be used for sale items
*Fully stamped reward cards cannot be used for sale items

We’ll also have some surprises and give-a-ways throughout the day so get here early, stay late and LONG LIVE LOCAL COMIC SHOPS!

Join us on Sunday, November 11th for the Clifton Show! America's favorite and longest running monthly comic book show!

The show runs from 10-4 at The Clifton Community Recreation Center, 1232 Main Ave, Clifton, NJ 07011.

Admission is FREE as always during our regular show hours of 10-4!

But... more and more collectors have been coming to shop before the show is officially open. So... from 8:30 to 10:00 there will be a $5 early bird admissioncharge. Earlybirds must use only the front entrance to the building. For security reasons, only vendors loading in can use the back entrance prior to 10.


Once again we will have everything from CGC investment grade keys to 25 cent readers... supplies and some action figures as well.

Our notorious no minimum bid auction is at noon.

Be sure to check out our website: http://www.njcomicbookshows.com/

Tee Franklin - an amazing friend of East Side Mags - makes her awesome return with a new ongoing comic and the JACKPOT edition of a fan-favorite!

Tee will be here from 1pm-5pm alongside letterer (and hardest working man in comics) Taylor Esposito to sign copies of their new ongoing comic - Jook Joint!

About Jook Joint (out NOW): Mahalia runs the hottest spot in all of 1950s New Orleans. The Jook Joint keeps the jazz popping, people bopping... and the women? The women are to die for. There's only one rule: "Keep your hands to yourself." But some men think rules don't apply to them, and Mahalia and her coven of slain women enjoy reminding them that they most certainly do.

We’ll also have copies of the Jackpot edition of Bingo Love featuring art by our VERY OWN FAMILY CHRISTOPHER WOLFFE! Yes - you heard it here first - Chris has been published in an IMAGE COMICS collection!

About Bingo Love: When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall. Realizing their love for each other is still alive, what these grandmothers do next takes absolute strength and courage. 

This Jackpot Edition contains over SIXTY PAGES of bonus material, including the talents of MARGUERITE BENNETT (Batwoman) and newcomer BEVERLY JOHNSON, SHAWN PRYOR (Cash and Carrie) and PAULINA GANUCHEAU (Zodiac Starforce), award-winning historical romance author ALYSSA COLE's comics writing debut with SHAE BEAGLE (MOONSTRUCK), GAIL SIMONE (CROSSWIND) and MARGAUX SALTEL (Superfreaks), and AMANDA DEIBERT (Wonder Woman '77) and CAT STAGGS (CROSSWIND), with illustrations from MEGAN HUTCHINSON (ROCKSTARS) and ARIELA KRISTANTINA (InSeXts). Plus a sneak peek of BINGO LOVE, VOL. 2: DEAR DIARY, with an afterword from GABBY RIVERA (America).

WOW! That’s a lot of awesome-ness! Make sure you come by and check out what one of today’s hottest indie writers is all about!

Come join us for our Comic book show
When: November 3, 2018
Time: 10AM-4PM
Where: Middletown Arts Center, 36 Church St, Middletown, NJ, 07748

Family Friendly Show

Comics for Everyone
Investor grade comics to Dollar books
Golden Age to Modern Age
Slabbed and Raw books
Action Figures, Funkos and other misc toys
Artists & Creators

It’s Free Comic Book Day in the Fall - AKA HALLOWEEN COMICFEST!!!

Join us for the spookiest fun there is!

We’ve got FREE COMICS available - some with special Halloween themes!!! Check out some of the awesome titles available:

We’ve also got our FIRST ANNUAL ZOMBIE WALK!

Come by between 2pm and 4pm to get “zombie’d up”! Come dressed in your best zombie attire with your make up ready to go. We’ll have some special “zombie consultants” on hand to help you out if you need it. The OFFICIAL EAST SIDE MAGS ZOMBIE WALK begins at 4pm. We’ll make our way down Church Street towards South Park Street, hook a right down to Bloomfield Ave, then head back down towards the shop!

To finish out the day, come enjoy a LIVE READING by SKETCHPROV.COM of Ghostbusters the Movie starting at 6pm!

Sketchprov headlines the Halloween Comic Fest at East Side Mags with a live script reading of the classic horror comedy, “Ghostbusters”! Come on by early and meet some of the NJ Ghostbusters for pictures! We’ll also be accepting donations for Toni’s Kitchen of Montclair. 

This might be the best Halloween ComicFest EVER so don’t miss this one-of-a-kind event!!!

We’re hosting our favorite anti-folk artist Travis Love Benson and friends! Check our this awesome message from Travis himself:

Hello! Come over to one of my favorite venues SLASH comic shop East Side Mags and buy comics while you listen to these AMAZING Anti-Folk performers:

-Sourdoe Band - They're here, they're in your face, they're my favorite people!
-Travis Love Benson - Ever sang along to a song whose lyrics were "WIsh I were dead?" Want to? Travis Love Benson is anti-folk, emotion, performance, and real existing human being just trying to tell their story to anyone who will listen.

It's gonna be an amazing time! See you there! 

~Travis Love Benson
Unloveable Productions