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Jared of OK Comics

1 year

Where to find OK Comics... High Street - 19 Thornton's Arcade, Briggate, Leeds City Centre, LS1 6LQ, United Kingdom Website - Twitter - @OKComics Hive - okcomics Instagram - OKComics Tiktok - ok_comics Youtube - OK Comics

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

5 months

OK Comics is OPEN.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

In the last few days I've seen that three independent comic/book shops have announced their imminent closure. Well-run, well known, established shops owned, operated and curated by people who have put their heart and soul into the businesses. There will be more. This is a thread

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

Alright, so… OK Comics has been open again for two weeks. Lots of people have been congratulating us on getting through the lock-down. People seem glad that we've 'survived'. Popular opinion is that we're through the worst of it. The fact of the matter is...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

The world has changed. It's obvious the way people shop has changed. Even though stores are allowed to reopen, and people are allowed to visit us, it's our experience here at OK Comics that this just isn't happening. It's one heartbreaking week after another.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

I don't know what you want from a comic shop, but this is what we've got.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

I am physically, mentally and emotionally broken by today. The outpouring of support from the OK Comics customers has reduced me to tears. The generosity is unbelievable. We're hoping to be open tomorrow. We're hoping to be able to continue to mail stuff out.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

You can still find OK Comics at 19 Thornton's Arcade, Briggate, Leeds, LS1 6LQ (open from 11am to 5pm, Monday to Friday) or open 24 hours online at , and you can email orders to shop @okcomics .co.uk

OK Comics | The Comic Book Shop in Leeds

OK Comics is a comic book shop in Leeds, we stock a variety of comics and graphic novels. Along with a free standing order service, that you can either collect in store or have mailed to you.

okcomics.co.uk

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

OK Comics will reopen on Mon 12th Apr. We'll continue mail order for anybody who requires it. Opening times will be 11am to 5pm, Mon to Sat. We expect all visitors to the store to use face masks and hand sanitiser. We will be limiting access to three customers at a time.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

2 years

It's no secret, times are tough all round. OK Comics isn't immune to the world's current financial woes. Footfall in the city is down, for a variety of reasons, and this is really affecting how we run the shop from day to day...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

The financial crisis is biting hard through these winter months, but we must continue to support the shops, restaurants, bars, cafe's, salons and boutiques that we love. You often never know how close your favourite store is to closure until it's too late.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

And if you're not able to visit, we deliver anywhere. You can email us (shop @okcomics .co.uk) or use our online shop.

Products

OK Comics is a comic book shop in Leeds, we stock a variety of comics and graphic novels. Along with a free standing order service, that you can either collect in store or have mailed to you.

okcomics.co.uk

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

things have never been tougher. The shop is sooo quiet. Since reopening we’re averaging five customers through the door each day.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

If there is a business that you love, please show that love in a tangible way. You can do that by sending well wishes, thinking good thoughts, chatting about them online, leaving a positive review, mentioning them to friends...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

If there is a small business you love, but you haven't visited for a while, maybe you should do it now. Most shops have an online option, so you can get deliveries at home or work. Shipping is often cheaper than city centre parking.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

...but nothing beats buying stuff from them. If you have something on order with a shop, go buy it today. If there's a treat you're looking forward to, go buy it today. If you have a family member who has a birthday coming up, buy the gift today.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

Just a reminder... OK Comics has reopened! We're here from 11am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday. We've been receiving new releases through the whole lockdown, so we have plenty of stuff for you!

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

Bills that were on hold have now kicked in again. For small, independent retailers, the second half of the year is going to be even tougher than the first.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

Batman first appeared in issue 27 of Detective Comics in 1939. For the first 26 issues of its run it had been an anthology series of short crime tales. The best-known character from these early, pre-superhero, stories is Slam Bradley.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

If you don't use the shops you love now, they'll be gone too. My shop is OK Comics, it's a tiny independent book shop that specialises in comics and graphic novels. We've been going for 21 years and things have never been tougher.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

5 years

I hope you like Batman! All the heavy hitters are out this week.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

Each time we look at the sales figures and footfall numbers I think maybe it'll be better next week. But it isn't. Our government allowing us to do things doesn't mean people are happy or comfortable doing them.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

New releases are expected to be weekly from now on, so if you need your stuff mailing out on a weekly basis, let us know. The OK Comics website and webshop can be found at

OK Comics | The Comic Book Shop in Leeds

OK Comics is a comic book shop in Leeds, we stock a variety of comics and graphic novels. Along with a free standing order service, that you can either collect in store or have mailed to you.

okcomics.co.uk

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

OK Comics is a tiny little independent book shop in Leeds city centre, specialising in comics and graphic novels. We're currently open from Monday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, and we're receiving regular new releases and restock deliveries. And...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

The streets of Leeds are mostly empty. People who usually work in the city centre, now work remotely. Shoppers who normally use the city centre are reluctant to use public transport and staying away.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

If you have something on order with OK Comics, please pick it up now, or arrange to have it mailed out. If you're planning to buy a gift for somebody, maybe get it now. If there's a comic or book that you've had your eye on, feel free treat yourself it now.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

If you can't get into the place in person, you'll probably find that most modern businesses are set up to deliver to you, many will have an online shop you can use. Our cities and towns are changing. If we don't continue to use them, they'll be unrecognisable.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

Our awesome mail order customers who have been so supportive through our period of closure are now slowly going back to work themselves, and no longer have time to read so much.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

I miss our customers. I miss sharing my enthusiasm for new books with people. The mail order service we offer is fantastic, but there is no substitute for browsing our actual store.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

Looking for Sci-Fi Fantasy like Star Wars, Dune, or Saga? This is already popping up on some ‘best of the year’ lists… It’s an intergalactic road movie of a comic, narrated by a naive young alien woman, with...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

I'm often asked where the Pen Shop is (closed 11 years ago), or the chocolate shops (closed eight years), beer shop (five years), candle shop, bead shop, clothing boutique... all independent business neighbours here that have closed down.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

Over the last couple of years, @TomKingTK has become one of OK Comics favourite writers. Vision, Mister Miracle, Strange Adventures, Rorschach... King is at his best when given freedom to work his magic on often overlooked side-characters. Human Target begins next week.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

6 years

Tomorrow! Justice League and Doom Patrol: Milk Wars #1 by @thesteveorlando @gerardway and pals... It looks so great.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

OK Comics is OPEN. We have thousands of graphic novels available on our upstairs sales floor. We keep the new releases on the ground floor for easy access!

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

We do loads of things you wont find elsewhere, like our social events, free lending library, exclusive signed editions, free graphic novels, occasional special offers and a permanent sale section etc

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

We're open every day in Leeds city centre, flanked by a bus station and train station, surrounded by car parks.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

We took the lockdown time to make improvements to the shop. As far as I'm concerned, OK Comics is the best it's ever been, and we're still tweaking things, aiming to be even better.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

5 years

The new @neilhimself American Gods comic series starts tomorrow! xoxo

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

5 years

Since Christmas six UK comic shops have reported that they're closing. If you have a local comic shop that you love, spend a bit of money with them this weekend. That little bit of cash you throw their way, that one comic you buy, may just prevent them from being next.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

If Alan Moore, anarchist wizard and writer of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, is voting, you should probably vote too.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

2 years

Huge, huge, huge thanks to @BilquisEvely @_matlopes_ and @TomKingTK for making this happen...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

OK Comics is a tiny little book shop in Leeds specialising in comics and graphic novels. I don't know what you want from a comic shop, but this is what we've got. Open from 11am to 5pm Monday to Saturday. Everything is available in store, or for delivery.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow by @TomKingTK @BilquisEvely & @_matlopes_ is one of our best-selling graphic novels EVER! A beautifully illustrated science-fiction epic perfect for fans of Saga. It's a great introduction Kara Zor-El & the darkness inside her.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

6 years

I'm not sure what you want from your local comic shop, but this is what we got...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

11 months

OK Comics has been NOMINATED FOR AN EISNER AWARD in the Spirit of Retail category. Huge thanks to @DanielleTute @justhannahrly @joe_maskill @annareadman and all the staff, customers, suppliers, family and friends who have supported us over these last twenty years!

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

Is it fear? Ill health? Have people's buying habits altered through the lockdowns? So many of our regulars just haven't made it back to us.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

OK Comics will be OPEN TO THE PUBLIC from 11am tomorrow! Monday 15th June! In accordance with social distancing guidelines, we are limiting the amount of people we allow in the shop to ONE PERSON AT A TIME, and operating a policy of ONE IN, ONE OUT.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

OK Comics is a tiny bookshop in Leeds city centre specialising in comics and graphic novels. If you're in the area for Thought Bubble in Harrogate, we're not too far away. Why not pop in and have a look.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

Times are tough all-round, and it's obvious the virus and lockdowns have hit lots of people in various ways. Many of our subscription customers have canceled their orders. Many people who used to visit us on their lunchbreak, or as they pass through Leeds, now work at home.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

6 months

A thread. If you're passing through Leeds on your way to Thought Bubble: The Yorkshire Comic Art Festival this weekend, you will be very close to OK Comics. You should pop in and say hello.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

Next weeks new releases are now listed on the OK Comics website, including... Nightwing #100 by @TomTaylorMade @Bruno_Redondo_F and pals...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

Specially selected items are available on our new webshop, with new items being added every week. If you can’t find what you need there, you can request delivery of all our comics and graphic novels by email. Shop @okcomics .co.uk.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

We give away ten graphic novels at the end of each three months. All you have to do is follow us on Facebook, twitter and Instagram and you could win gems like these.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

Since the lockdown announcement, we have continued all customer subscription orders. If you’re one of the few people who haven’t picked your stuff up, or had it mailed out recently. Please contact us today! Email ship @okcomics .co.uk.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

In case you missed it. The first five people through our door today will get a Comic Book recommendation from us for FREE! It's already been paid for by the extremely generous @TomTaylorMade . Just mention Tom's name and we'll sort you out.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

Lots of the larger businesses in the city centre have closed forever, so I guess there's less of an incentive to visit the high street. Some people are not comfortable using public transport.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

Coming soon to OK Comics! @danielwarrenart 's epic multi-dimensional wrestling tale Do a Powerbomb is one of our most anticipated releases this year! Thanks to Daniel, we also have exclusive signed bookplates! Pre-order here...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

5 years

Not previously available in comic book shops, @TomKingTK and @AndyKubert 's Superman Up in the Sky begins this week.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

11 months

I see another comic shop has been forced to close. Independent shops don't have all the benefits that larger multinational stores do. They don't have the same discounts / buying power, or dodge paying tax. Support your favourite local indie business TODAY before it's too late.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

7 years

Outcast #25 is out tomorrow, it's only 25p. We still have stock of the 25p editions of Walking Dead and Invincible too.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

OK Comics The Comic Book Shop in Leeds.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

8 months

I'm hearing rumors that Collectors Universe is closing down. The Indian deli next door to us has definitely one out of business. Use it or lose it folks. If there's an indie shop, restaurant, salon, or business you love. Show them that love by buying something!

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 month

OK Comics is a tiny little independent book shop in Leeds, specialising in Comics, Graphic Novels and Manga. There are two floors of specially curated items, representing genres such as crime, horror, humor, western, fantasy, superheroes, war, politics, food, science...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

We have a limited quantity of these back in stock. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is @TomKingTK , @BilquisEvely and @_matlopes_ 's sci-fi-fantasy masterclass, set in the DC universe, though no previous knowledge of DC Comics is required...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

5 years

I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into @mikeyway 's Collapser. It looks like my kind of mental!

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

You may or may not know, we get most of our comics and graphic novels from Diamond Comics UK. They've always been absolutely fantastic to deal with, and they've been particularly good at rising to the challenges of the last two years.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

2 years

Hey Barnsley! You have a new comic shop! Red Robot is located in The Arcade, right opposite Spiral City bar. It specialises in graphic novels, artwork and back issues curated by Chris, a guy who really knows his stuff.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

5 years

Tomorrow! The third part of @TomKingTK 's really great @DCComics series, Heroes in Crisis!

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

I don't know what you want from a comic shop, but this is what we've got. OK Comics is open from 11am today.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

Human Target is in the building. 🎯 Based on pre-orders, this is going to be one of our best selling series... @TomKingTK @SavageSmallwood

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

6 years

Frankie Boyle @frankieboyle 's graphic novel just arrived!

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

It looks like OK Comics is going to remain closed for a few more months! Our mail order service continues! Staff here are working every day!

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

Very few comic artists are revered by other comic artists the way that @xaimeh is. Queen of the Ring is a collection of his perfectly rendered, beautifully observed wrestling drawings from the last two decades.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

6 years

Before Hellboy, there was this awesome @artofmmignola adaption of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Long out of print and available now in black and white with loads of pages of extras! "... and I shall love again".

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 months

Extremity is a science-fiction-fantasy, like Dune, Star Wars or Saga, it feels like a cross between Sons of Anarchy and Game of Thrones, in space! Soon to be back-in-print as a beautiful deluxe hardcover, with a signed @danielwarrenart bookplate.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 years

If you're passing through Leeds for Thought Bubble this weekend, feel free to pop into OK Comics to say hi. We're a tiny bookshop in the city centre, specialising in comics and graphic novels.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

Next weeks new releases are now listed on the OK Comics website, including... The latest issue of @TomKingTK and @SavageSmallwood 's Human Target.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

OK Comics is in Thornton's Arcade. It's a glass covered Victorian shopping street, and a haven for small independent businesses. Quite a few of our neighbours have had to permanently close this year.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

7 years

To help celebrate our 15th Birthday, @seanpphillips has created four different beer can designs based on his favourite Femme Fatales.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

2 years

You can pre-order next weeks new releases on our website now, including... Batman #125 , the first issue by the new creative team @JorgeJimenezArt and @zdarsky If you want it adding to your subscription email shop @okcomics .co.uk to let us know...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

7 years

If you're visiting Leeds for Thought Bubble this weekend, why not pop into three-time Eisner nominated @OKComics and say hi.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

#twentyyearsofokcomics This month we mark 20 years of OK Comics. We've put together a range of what we think are our most important books. These are graphic novels that staff (past and present) and customers agree are meaningful reads that they associate with OK Comics.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

4 months

Just in case you were wondering, these are the best selling books at OK Comics this year. But, can you guess which one sold best?

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

6 months

New Hellboy from @duncanfegredo and @artofmmignola In stock now.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

Win. Win. Win. We're almost half way through the yeah and we're about to give away ten of the best graphic novels of the last three months. All you have to do is follow @OKComics on facebook, twitter and Instagram, and let us know about it.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

9 years

Tomorrow! @mattfraction @davaja and @AnnieW 's magnum opus. The complete Hawkeye!

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

Welcome to OK Comics, the award-winning bookshop in Leeds City Centre specialising in comics and graphic novels. We stock a wide range of genres...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

11 months

Calling all @TomKingTK readers! We are about to place our orders for WONDER WOMAN #1 ... If you haven't added this to your pull list, do so today! Just email us at shop @okcomics .co.uk, and we'll sort it out for you.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

6 months

The sense of pride one feels when the hard work and talent of friends becomes widely recognised, can be overwhelming.

‘It would be amazing if this led to something’: Anna Readman, winner of our graphic short story...

Dancing Queen, Readman’s meditation on a lost friend, won this year’s Observer/Faber graphic short story prize. Now she’s glad she gave up the day job…

www.theguardian.com

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

#twentyyearsofokcomics This month we mark 20 years of OK Comics. We've put together a range of what we think are our most important books. These are graphic novels that staff (past and present) and customers agree are meaningful reads that they associate with OK Comics.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

2 years

OK Comics has been nominated in the Spirit of Retail category in the 2022 Eisner Awards. Thanks to all the staff, family, friends and (most of all) customers who kept us going these last few years.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

1 year

Our Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2022 is live on the OK Comics website! How many have you read? @cliffchiang @erdna11 @JamesTheFourth @AMartinezBueno @therightram @TomKingTK @BilquisEvely @BenjiNate @takisoma @joe_hill @GR_comics @heyluchie @seanpphillips

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

2 years

Next week is a monster at OK Comics. Check our website list, including the new Human Target by @TomKingTK and @SavageSmallwood Tick the boxes and we'll do the rest. In-store pick-up and mail-order are available.

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@OKComics

7 years

The Snotgirl paperback by @radiomaru and @lesliehung looks great! Full colour, textured cover, French flaps. All for £8.99.

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@OKComics

4 years

Everything's going to be OK!

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

5 years

Next week is @WorldBookDayUK So we've put together a range of the BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS EVER. A Distant Neighborhood, Killer, Asterios Polyp, Essex County, Favorite Thing is Monsters, Daytripper, Fun Home, The Fade Out, Black Hole, From Hell. What's your favourite Graphic Novel?

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

2 years

They're here! Look at how beautiful they are!! Thanks so much to @TomKingTK , @BilquisEvely , and @_matlopes_ for creating these gorgeous signed prints to accompany our copies of Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow. We're down to our last few pre-orders...

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

3 years

I am loving @TomKingTK 's Batman Catwoman series. He's experimenting with narrative structure in a way rarely seen in Superheroics, and using a rarely seen, but totally familiar, villain. Three issues in stock now. Get involved.

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Jared of OK Comics

@OKComics

9 months

Back in stock for the first time in a long time. @TomKingTK @BilquisEvely @_matlopes_ perfect sci-fi fantasy epic intergalactic vengeance road movie.

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