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This year's Eisner Award winners were announced!

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BOSCO'S in the news!

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LADIES, we know Wanda means well. She has certainly directed this lonely woman towards quality men. But BOSCO'S managers are very busy. There's work. And there are comics to read, games to play and cards to collect. Please respect their time.

(Article from Anchorage Daily News Oct 1, 2010)

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MANGA/ANIME
ART CONTEST 2012!
ENTRIES DUE Friday April 13

Great Graphic Novels for Teens

The Young Adult Library Services Association released its list of top Graphic Novels for teens.

The books, recommended for those ages 12-18, meet the criteria of both good quality literature and appealing reading for teens. “This year’s list reflects the wide range of graphic novels available for teens,” said Chair Joy Kim. “From kung-fu epics to ghost stories to memoirs, this year’s selected titles represent many genres, styles, and sequential art traditions. We hope librarians, teens, and graphic novel aficionados will find this to be a valuable resource.”

In addition to the full Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2012 list, the committee selected the following Top Ten titles:

•Amir and Khalil. “Zahra’s Paradise.” First Second, 2011

•Bendis, Brian Michael and Alex Maleev. “Scarlet.” Marvel/Icon Comics, 2011.

•Brosgal, Vera. “Anya’s Ghost.” First Second, 2011.

•Gladstone, Brooke, Josh Neufeld, and others. “The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media.” W. W. Norton and Company, 2011.

•Langridge, Roger, Chris Samnee, and others. “Thor: The Mighty Avenger V. 1.” Marvel, 2010. “Thor: The Mighty Avenger V. 2.” Marvel, 2011.

•McLeod, Kagan. “Infinite Kung Fu.” Top Shelf, 2011.

•Mori, Kaoru. “A Bride’s Story V. 1.” Yen Press, 2011.

•Nicolle, Malachai and Ethan Nicolle. “Axe Cop V. 1.” Dark Horse, 2011.

•Ralph, Brian. “Daybreak.” Drawn and Quarterly, 2011.

•Takako, Shimuro. “Wandering Son V. 1.” Fantagraphics Books, 2011.

Eureka!

Buy "Oil Springs" and BOSCO'S will donate ALL of the purchase price to the Alaska Center for the Environment!

Oil has been discovered on the island of Catan! But oil is scarce and its use does not come without cost. Using oil produces pollution and climate changing emissions, which bring with them the threat of coastal flooding-and absolute disaster. With the discovery of oil on Catan, the Settlers face a new challenge: deciding whether the common good is worth limiting oil usage or whether the pursuit of victory is worth the risk of ruin.

Buy Oil Springs for $5 and BOSCO'S will donate all of it to ACE.

The players in Settlers of Catan represent settlers establishing colonies on the island of Catan. Players build settlements, cities, and roads to connect them as they settle the island. The game board representing the island is composed of hexagonal tiles (hexes) of different land types which are laid out randomly at the beginning of each game.

Players build by spending resources (brick, lumber, wool, grain, and ore), represented by resource cards. Players are allowed to trade resource cards.

Click here for January and more 2012 events!
Magic: dark Ascension Prerelease and presale deal! Sportscard Trade Night and "A pack of everything" giveaway! Magic The Gathering, Friday Night Magic, RPGAlaska Sundays, DND Encounters, Warhammer Tournies! and much much more.

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Visit us at our main store at 2606 Spenard Road
Monday through Saturday Noon to 8pm
Sunday from noon to 6pm.

We're open in Spenard every day except New Year's, Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. We'll close on July 4 unless it's on Saturday or new comic book day. Call (907) 274-4112

Take a peek at Google's Streetview show of BOSCO'S!

Visit us in the Dimond Center
Monday through Saturday 10am to 9pm
Sunday from 11am to 6pm.
The store is closed Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The hours are 10am to 6pm on Memorial Day, Labor Day, Christmas eve and New Year's eve and New Year's day. Call 349-3963
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2011 Eisner Awards

Best Short Story"Post Mortem," by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark, in I Am an Avenger #2 (Marvel)
(Greg Rucka visited BOSCO'S!)

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)
Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil, by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben (Dark Ho

Best Continuing Series
Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image)

Best Limited Series
Daytripper, by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Vertigo/DC)

Best New Series
American Vampire, by Scott Snyder, Stephen King, and Rafael Albuquerque (Vertigo/DC)

Best Publication for Kids
Tiny Titans, by Art Baltazar and Franco (DC)

Best Publication for Teens
Smile, by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic Graphix)

Best Humor Publication
I Thought You Would Be Funnier, by Shannon Wheeler (BOOM!)

Best Anthology
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, edited by Paul Morrissey and David Petersen (Archaia) (David Peterson and his wife came to BOSCO'S!)

Best Digital Comic
Abominable Charles Christopher, by Karl Kerschl, www.abominable.cc

Best Reality-Based Work
It Was the War of the Trenches, by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics)

Best Graphic Album—New
Return of the Dapper Men, by Jim McCann and Janet Lee (Archaia)
Wilson, by Daniel Clowes (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint
Wednesday Comics, edited by Mark Chiarello (DC)

Best Adaptation from Another Work
The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young (Marvel)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips
Archie: The Complete Daily Newspaper Strips, 1946–1948, by Bob Montana, edited by Greg Goldstein (IDW)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books
Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer Artist's Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material
It Was the War of the Trenches, by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa (VIZ Media)

Best Writer
Joe Hill, Lock & Key (IDW)

Best Writer/Artist
Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark's Parker: The Outfit (IDW)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team
Skottie Young, The Marvelous Land of Oz (Marvel)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)
Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad (Dark Horse)

Best Cover Artist
Mike Mignola, Hellboy, Baltimore: The Plague Ships (Dark Horse)

Best Coloring
Dave Stewart, Hellboy, BPRD, Baltimore, Let Me In (Dark Horse); Detective Comics (DC); Neil Young's Greendale, Daytripper, Joe the Barbarian (Vertigo/DC)

Best Lettering
Todd Klein, Fables, The Unwritten, Joe the Barbarian, iZombie (Vertigo/DC); Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom (WildStorm/DC); SHIELD (Marvel); Driver for the Dead (Radical)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism
ComicBookResources, produced by Jonah Weiland (www.comicbookresources.com)

Best Comics-Related Book
75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, by Paul Levitz (TASCHEN)

Best Publication Design
Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer Artist's Edition, designed by Randall Dahlk (IDW)

HALL OF FAME
Judges' Choices: Ernie Bushmiller, Jack Jackson, Martin Nodell, Lynd Ward
Elected: Mort Drucker, Harvey Pekar, Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman

Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award:
Nate Simpson

Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award:
Patrick McDonnell

Bill Finger Excellence in Comic Book Writing Award:
Del Connell, Bob Haney

Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award:
Comics & Vegetables, Tel Aviv, Israel - Yuval Sharon, Danny Amitai

The American Library Association recommends:
2012 Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens

 
BOSCO'S has vintage sports cards! Here you see locally renowned sportscard and Monkees collector Chris McKnight having fun and getting paid!

We also have a huge selection of new cards. Lots of sports card retailers pick and choose among the many new cards coming out and offer their customers a smaller selection. That's not our way. We'll try anything! Head to out Sportscard page for more info!

You're not still buying sports cards at the grocery store are you? Shame if you are! You get packs with better cards and better deals at your local Home Team Advantage store! Head to our Sportscard page for more info!

 

 

BOSCO'S is an Upper Deck "Preferred Redemption Center." We are authorized by Upper Deck to help you handle your redemptions with an exceptional level of service.

The biggest benefit to redeeming your cards through a preferred redemption center is that we'll be initiating the first phase of the new Upper Deck 45 day turnaround on redemptions.

If you redeem your cards through a preferred redemption center, after the card has been in the system for 45 days and has not been fulfilled then you will be able to request an exchange.

 

24 Hour Comics Day
in Spenard 2009, 2010, 2011!
Pictures are posted!

A Native Lad.
A graphic novel history written, drawn and published by Alaskans!

Learn more ... Click here

From Sarah Hurst April 2011:

“A Native Lad” has been selected by the Alaska Center for the Book to represent Alaska on a literary map of the U.S. at the Library of Congress’s National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. in September 2011. Congratulations! There is an Alaska booth at the Pavilion of States and it will feature this book.


 
     
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