Marvel March Madness with Chris Giarrusso, Jim McCann, and Jen Grünwald!!!!! SALE!!!

Acme Comics is proud to present our first major signing of the new year featuring Mini Marvel's writer/artist Chris Giarrusso, Marvel marketing wizard and New Avengers: Reunion writer Jim McCann, and Marvel über-editor Jen Grünwald! They'll be onhand, happily signing your books, sketching characters, and chatting about Marvel Comics!!!

To celebrate this event, we'll also be offering 30% OFF all Marvel trade paperbacks and hardcovers all day long!  Your first big sale opportunity of 2009! 

Stay tuned to this page and the Acme web calendar as even more plans for this event are in the works!  Rest assured that they'll be exciting to fans young and old!

WHO: Chris Giarrusso, Jim McCann, and Jen Grünwald
WHAT: Signing, sketching, chatting. Coloring contest for kids. 30% OFF all Marvel trade paperbacks and hardcovers. More to come
WHERE: Acme Comics 2150 Lawndale Dr., Greensboro, NC 27408
WHEN: Saturday, March 7, 2009  10 AM - 7 PM    

Chris Giarrusso has developed one of the most fully realized styles in modern comics. The guy can draw anything in his signature style. In the late 90s Chris created the Bullpen Bits comic strip for Marvel's Bullpen Bulletin letters pages.  Bullpen Bits then evolved into the Mini Marvels comic books and back ups stories that have become so beloved around Acme! Chris also created his own character called G-Man and and entire supporting cast of characters that can sometimes be found in Savage Dragon in a strip called Comic Bits. Those strips were collected with a brand new story in the G-Man one-shot from Image Comics. Chris can be found at ChrisGComics.com.

Jim McCann, the marketing genius, has been our man on the inside of Marvel for the last two years, slipping us hints and previews of upcoming storylines that have allowed us to stay one step ahead of the game, enabling us to get Acme customers what they needed whether you knew it at the time or not! Jim McCann, the young gun writer, is one of the rising stars at Marvel, working on What If? House of M (with Brian Reed), the Hawkeye/Mockingbird prologue in Dark Reign New Nation, and New Avengers: The Reunion. We even interviewed Jim in preparation for his visit!

Since starting with Marvel as an intern in 2002, hotshot editor Jen Grünwald as risen through the ranks to helm some of our favorite trade paperback and hardcover collections, including the Captain America and Daredevil Omnibus hardcovers, the Official Handbooks of the Marvel Universe A to Z updates, the Secret Invasion trade paperback, and the essential Dazzler. Jen can be found online at IGotKittyPryde.com.

• Mini Marvels tpb #1 - Rock Paper Scissors
• Mini Marvels tpb #2 - Secret Invasion
• G-Man one-shot
• Thor #600
  
• Giant Size Mini Marvels one-shot
• Spidey and the Mini Marvel one-shot
• Spidey and the Mini Marvel Halloween Ashcan one-shot
• "Conspicuous Invasion" in Skrulls vs. Power Pack #1-4
• "Rally the Troops" in World War Hulk Aftersmash one-shot
• "Round Trip" in World War Hulk Prologue: Worldbreaker one-shot
• "Princle Stanley" in Stan Lee Meets Doctor Strange one-shot
• "Iron Avengers" in Iron Man vs. Power Pack #1-4
• "Passing the Torch" in Fantastic Four and Power Pack #4
• "Lo, There Shall Come...a Go-Kart" in Hulk and Power Pack #1
• "Hulk Date" in Hulk and Power Pack #4
• "Civil Wards" in Spider-man and Power Pack #1-4
• "The Snowman" in Marvel Adventures Spider-man #24
• "Giant Girl" in Marvel Adventures Spider-man #22
• "French Bread" in Marvel Adventures Spider-man #20
• "The Couch" in Marvel Adventures Spider-man #18
• "Spidey and his Amazing Co-workers" in Spider-man Family: Amazing Friends
• "The Itch" in Marvel Adventures Spider-man #16
• "The Black Cat" in Marvel Adventures Spider-man #14

• Secret Invasion Saga
• What If? House of M with Brian Reed
• New Avengers: The Reunion "Suspicion" in Dark Reign New Nation
• New Avengers: The Reunion #1

• Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update A to Z hc #1-6
• Secret Invasion tpb
• Ed Brubaker Captain America Omnibus hc #1
• Brain Michael Bendis Daredevil Omnibus hc #1
• Essential Dazzler tpb
• Powers hc #2
• Omega the Unknown hc
• Marvel Boy hc
  
• Runaways hc #1-3
  
• Spider-man Loves Mary Jane hc #1-3
• Women of Marvel tpb #1-2