Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin 24th Anniversary Event
• Store History
• Events
• Guests
Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® is about to turn 24-years-old and we’re gonna celebrate like it’s 1986!
Check out some of the awesome we have planned!
WHEN: Saturday, September 18, 2010
WHERE: Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin (6111 Burnet Rd Austin TX 78757)
WHAT: 24th Anniversary Flashback Bash!
Store History
Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® first opened our doors on September 3, 1986 and have been proudly serving the Austin community, providing comics, graphic novels, manga, action figures, collectibles, board & card games, role-playing games and miniature games. Originally, we only carried comics and related accessories but we have long since expanded our business model.
We’ve had three locations in Austin – an old house on Guadalupe street, a location on 49th & Burnet and our 5600 square foot store!
Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin have been pioneers here in Austin in working with indy comic creators, webcomics creators and community involvement! We’ve hosted many events over the years for indy comic creators and run Webcomics Rampage, a very successful webcomics creator signings event each year! We offer space to Austin Area homeschoolers for their weekly game day and participate in local conventions such as Anime Overload, YomiCon and Staple.
We are also pioneers in workplace equality in the comics & game retail industry. Our General Manager, Angie Blackmon is one of the few women in the industry who have worked their way up through the chain of command to supervise two successful comic & game stores and be recognized as an industry expert, giving interviews for publications such as ICv2. Our Store Manager, Rachel Edwards, has followed in her footsteps.
Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® is expanding, offering franchise opportunities all over the US! Just recently, we opened our very first franchise in Bellevue, Washington and we hope for many more to come!
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Events
This is an 80′s flashback party! We’re having delicious food, awesome 80′s music and all kinds of other events!
80′s Costume Contest
We’re giving you an excuse to dress up over a month before Halloween!
Come visit us on September 18, 2010 during our regular business hours in an 80′s-themed costume, fill out a contest form and get your picture taken! The winner of the Costume Contest will receive a $24.00 Gift Card – one dollar for each year we’ve been open!
Customer Appreciation Raffle
We love our customers! You are why we do this!
If you stop by the store during our anniversary event, you’ll have the chance to enter our Customer Appreciation Raffle! You get a ticket for just stopping by; just fill out your ticket and we’ll do a drawing on September 19th!
The lucky winner will get an 80′s Gift Bag full of graphic novels, games and 80′s trinkets like a Rubik’s Cube and maybe even a few slap bracelets!
Limit one entry per customer.
80′s Prices!
We will be selling select graphic novels and board games popular the year we opened at 1986 prices! It’s just about a 51% discount off of our 2010 prices! Some of the books we’ll have on sale will be Batman: Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen and The Sandman vol 01!
Keep your eyes on this page for more information on what we’re going to be selling! Supplies are limited and the sale will only last until we run out!
Back to the Future Card Game Demo
WHEN: 1 PM – 4 PM
We will have demonstrations of the latest game from Looney Labs game Back to the Future!
Back to the Future is based on the 1980′s blockbuster hit movie Back to the Future (and the two sequels!). The game plays very similar to Looney Labs‘ Chrononauts with a little bit of 1980′s flair.
The first 24 people to people to participate in the demos will get an exclusive New Rule card for the game!
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Guests
Brian Wood
WHEN: 1 PM – 6 PM Saturday 18, 2010!
Brian Wood released his first series, Channel Zero, in 1997 to considerable critical acclaim and has continued to produce comics and graphic novels at a brisk pace ever since. Focusing almost entirely on creator-owned works, he’s become one of the most important indie creators of the last decade.
Standout works include his The Couriers and Channel Zero series, Demo, Local and Supermarket. He’s earned multiple Eisner Award nominations and editions of his work have been published in close to a dozen foreign markets. Currently under an exclusive contract for DC/Vertigo, Wood continues to write his unique brand of iconoclastic creator-owned work with DMZ, Northlanders, Demo and The New York Four.
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