Bear's Comics

1253 #A May River Road, Bluffton, SC. 29110

Monday, August 23, 2010

Design our Logo contest!!!

 We're having our first contest, and giving away a Fabulous Prize. We tried to get Vanna White (Bear used to walk her dog in the Hollywood Hills*) to fly in for the presentation, but apparently she's busy washing her hair that night. No matter, we'll press on.

As many have noted Bear's Comics needs a really good logo. We love Julie Jones' depiction of "Wonder Woman" on our face book page, but Wonder Woman is not ours and we'd like something that can be identified as Bear's Comic's.


The PRIZE:

The winner will receive a $100 gift certificate to Bear's Comics to be spent in store. If you live too far away we will mail the books to you and shipping costs would be deducted from the total of the gift certificate.
While the winning logo will belong to us, you will have the right to use, or mention, it in anyway you see fit - on your resume, school application, personal promotion material, portfolio etc. We would be happy to give you an accompanying quote mentioning that you were the winner of the competition and recommending your work.

The RULES.


1. Submissions can be dropped by the store, or submitted to our email address info@bearscomics.com or by mail to:

Bear's Comics
Box 873
Bluffton, SC 29910

Please put on the envelope : Logo Contest

2. All Submissions must be in no later than 3.PM  Sept. 7th, 2010.

3. All Submissions should be accompanied by your name, phone# and email address. The winner will be contacted by phone and email. Submissions will not be returned (so keep a copy).

4. Bear and I will be the sole judges of this competition. If you are not a winner all rights to your submission will revert to you.

-RB

* "Walking her dog", is actually a euphemism........ We'll leave it at that.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

A short history of the store so far.

Bear Delahunt and Ron Berney met when we were both struggling artists living in the foothills of Hollywood, on the outskirts of the entertainment industry. We soon realized that we shared a lot in common - a penchant for pop culture, a hatred for the LA Lakers, a belief that Michael Jackson was a genius, and most of all the ability to put in long, long, hours not working hard.  The latter talent eventually lead both Bear and I away from Los Angeles and on to other endeavors and other cities.

But we always stayed in touch.

And last summer, when Bear found himself back in his boyhood haunts of Southern South Carolina, we began to discuss the idea of opening a comic book store. After a few months of planning Bear's Comics opened just after Memorial Day 2010.

Another one of our common beliefs is that sequential art is a unique and important form and that an awful lot of brilliant (and too often ignored) work resides at the intersection of literature and visual images. It is an art form that is our constant companion through our early childhood (even before we can figure out how to read the words that accompany the images), in to adulthood,  and on through our dotage. It can run the spectrum from the  jauntiness of  Mickey Mouse to the hauntingly profound images of Art Spielgman's "Maus", from the teenage utopia of Archie Andrew's Riverdale, to the dystopian future United Kingdom of Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta" - sequential art in all its forms cuts a wide path through the human condition.

It is our store's, and this blog's, mission to encourage all the artists who contribute to this form and to nurture the artist that lives in all of us..... and to have fun doing it.

Look forward to seeing you all here and at Bear's Comics.

-RB