Legends Comics and Books

Like all retailers, Comic Shops are struggling because of Covid19.

Join us on MAY 16 AND 17TH for a two-day series of FACEBOOK LIVE sales showcasing amazing retailers and creators across Canada.

Your purchases from stores will go directly to those stores, and purchases from creators will go to the CLLDF to be redistributed where there is need in our community.

We all can’t wait to get back to selling you amazing comics in person! Thank you for your help in making that happen!

Just go to FACEBOOK and open the BE OUR HEROES, CANADA page where they will be broadcasting comic content from 10am to 10pm EST, consisting of retail store Live sales, and creator Q&As and live drawing! Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity to support Canadian comics retailers. We’re all in this together, and together we can get through it!

Just so you know, LEGENDS COMICS & BOOKS will have their twenty minutes of fame on Saturday May 16 from 3:40pm in our hometown of Victoria, B.C. which is 6:40pm EST.

Our beautiful little store is packed with wonderful reading material.

Unfortunately this makes it a poor environment to promote social distancing.

Therefore we are closing the store to browsing.

But don’t worry. You may still order comics and books so you will have the good stuff to read while you self isolate.

Just give us a call at 250-388-3696.

Or email legendscomics@shaw.ca.

We will take your order and arrange a time when you can come pick it up at the door.

We also offer delivery to your door in our area.

And we can mail your order to you.

Please consider giving a credit card number at the time of the order as this will speed up your visit. At this time we prefer not to handle cash.

We hope all our customers are able to stay healthy in these perilous times. We recommend that you follow all measures of protection as advised by the health experts which is why we are taking these measures to keep Legends a safe place.

Be well!

Read well!

We hope and expect to see you soon in all our social venues as this, too, shall pass.

Gareth & Lloyd
Legends Comics & Books

On September 7, 2019, from 12:00 to 4:00 pm, Victoria-based artist Joan Steacy will celebrate her new graphic novel, Aurora Borealice, with an event at Legends Comics & Books.

Aurora Borealice is the story of Steacy’s lifelong quest for education. Through her work on this project, Steacy explored her personal journey through alter-ego Alice, a functional illiterate with a creative mind and an astonishing amount of artistic skill.

The story follows Alice as she winds her way through art college, marriage, an art career in Toronto, parenthood, and a move to Victoria. Along the way, she draws encouragement from her partner, Canadian comics artist Ken Steacy, insight from media theorist Marshall McLuhan and mentor Eric McLuhan, and inspiration from Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud, and Jack ‘King’ Kirby.

Since its release, Aurora Borealice has received glowing praise from a number of prominent reviewers. The London Free Press began its review with, “Joan Steacy’s Aurora Borealice is pretty much the perfect comic book,” while Prism Magazine calls it, “A beautiful and effective literary reality.” The book was also featured on CBC’s spring list of “10 Canadian comics to read right now.”

Joan Steacy is a visual artist who has worked in a variety of disciplines, including sculpture, illustration, and digital painting. A graduate of Sheridan College, The Ontario College of Art & Design, and The University of Victoria, she currently teaches at Camosun College in Comics and Graphic Novels, a program she co-created with partner Ken Steacy.

LEGENDS COMICS is proud to present Hope Nicholson, Canadian Writer, Editor, Publisher and Film Producer greeting readers and signing her books on MAY 19 from 3pm to 6pm.

For those who still think comics are for guys only, Hope demonstrates the true diversity of creators and the audience today.

Through her Winnipeg company Bedside Press, Hope released “The Secret Loves of Geek Girls”, an anthology of women writers and cartoonists exploring a realm once held sacred by men. Authors include stalwarts like Trina Robbins and Roberta Gregory, new stars like Mariko Tamaki and renowned writers new to comics creation, like Margaret Atwood. Hope is a consulting editor on the upcoming Margaret Atwood graphic novel series “Angel Catbird” (September 2016)

Also appearing at the signing is Victoria writer/artist Renee Nault who is currently adapting “The Handmaid’s Tale” as a graphic novel.

Hope Nicholson was Associate Producer of the documentary LOST HEROES, currently on the CBC Documentary Channel. The film is a history of Canadian comic books and their creators from the 1940’s to today. Hope further archived the early era of the “Canadian Whites” by editing and publishing hardcover collections of the classic Canadian Comics “Nelvana of the Northern Lights” and “Brok Windsor.” Her next reprint collection is “Fashion In Action”, the famous 1980s comic.

As owner of the Winnipeg based publisher Bedside Press, Hope focuses on niche comic and sci-fi/fantasy books, including the indigenous comics anthology “Moonshot,” and “Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time” (Summer 2016) a prose anthology of indigenous LGBT sci-fi stories

Hope is writing a book on feminist comic book history for Quirk Books.

Hope is organizing the Prairie Comics Festival in summer 2017, and hosts events as part of Geek Girls Social Nights in Winnipeg.

On Authors for Indies Day, Canadian authors show appreciation for independent bookstores by volunteering as guest booksellers.

This year on April 30, authors will be chatting with customers, recommending books, and helping everyone appreciate the importance of indie bookstores to our communities and our cultural lives.
LEGENDS will be hosting LEE HENDERSON.

LEE has published two award-winning books with Penguin Canada — the story collection The Broken Record Technique and the novel The Man Game, which won the BC Book Prize and the Vancouver Book Prize in 2009. Regularly published in The Walrus and Border Crossings magazine, LEE has ALSO curated exhibitions of contemporary art and experimental music.

His most recent novel is THE ROAD NARROWS AS YOU GO, the story of Wendy Ashbubble who travels from B.C. to San Francisco in the 1980’s to join the underground comix scene. LEE himself draws her comic STRAYS, excerpted throughout the novel. Sean Rogers wrote in The Globe and Mail “Henderson has contributed his own, outsized, rambunctious myth to the annals of comics, and of our literature.”

LEE is an Associate Professor and Director of Professional Writing Minor in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria. He teaches a class in writing comics.

LEE is a great consumer and raconteur of comics and is sure to enhance this celebration of the people who bring you the books you love to read.

http://www.authorsforindies.com/

Gareth and Bronwyn have written a kid’s book! It’s an all-new, full-colour, hardcover book called The Perogy Cat and it comes with a miniature CD single featuring Barenaked Ladies’ own Ed Robertson’s brand new song “The Perogy Cat Theme Song” as well as him doing a dramatic reading of the book. The first 500 copies come with a bonus white vinyl seven inch single (an olde-timey record) with two versions of The Perogy Cat Theme Song!
Here’s a handy PayPal link to reserve your very own copy.
PayPal Link
It’ll be available the second week of December, just in time for our Christmas rush!

We LOVE our customers. Thank you for 23 years of fun times. Legends Comics November 7, 1992 – November 2015. I think we have a few more years left in us!

And here it is, the fourth volume of PROPHET, just in time for Simon Roy to affix his personal artistic signature when he visits us Saturday March 14 from 3pm to 6pm. A good time assured to be had by all.

LEGENDS COMICS & BOOKS presents Victoria author/illustrator Simon Roy signing his new graphic novel TIGER LUNG, as well as the fourth volume of his hit series PROPHET. Simon is a groundbreaking creator of sophisticated science fiction, He has received multiple nominations and the highest award from the industry, and has become one of the most notable practitioners in the medium.

Saturday March 14, 2015 between 3pm and 5pm.

at LEGENDS COMICS & BOOKS
633 Johnson Street
Victoria BC V8W 1M7
(250) 388 – 3696

We are really looking forward to hosting the awesome Simon Roy signing his literartful anthology JAN’S ATOMIC HEART, Sat Apr 5 from 2pm to 5pm. The man is a Canadian treasure and a big hit with his Eisner-nominated series PROPHET.