Image Comics Premiere Night with Bob Fingerman and the Creators of Five Ghosts
Coming Wednesday March 20th, the day both books release(!)… More details to come. Be here! UPDATED: Special guests will be joining us! Confirmed so far are Minimum Wage pin-up artists Dean Haspiel, Joe Infurnari, John Kerschbaum and Jeff Wong. Ben Templesmith will also be here to sign copies of the “Ghost” variant of Five Ghosts. [...]
Somewhere Around The Number Ten Best Comics That Nobody Told You About
Part 1: I love Chris Ware. Bit redundant to say so this holiday season with everyone and their sister buying Building Stories, but with so much comic awesomeness that happened in 2012; between Charles Burn’s second installment to his X’ed Out trilogy, The Hive, and Brian K. Vaughn’s Saga…SAGA… It’s too easy for amazing comics [...]
10/28 Forbidden Planet Storm Warning!
Hey Dudes and Dudettes! Turns out there is a storm of epic proportions coming our way and they are closing the subways down because of it. Unfortunately this means we are closing early today, 6PM to be exact. So make sure to head down here now and stock up on stuff to read, movies to [...]
Footage from the Forbidden Planet Ollie Mongo Signing
Ollie Mongo creators Craig Singer and Arlene Klasky stopped by Forbidden Planet NYC for a FREE comic book signing on September 21st 2012. Here’s some footage from our YouTube channel!
Deadbeat At Dawn 6/30 8PM @ Brooklyn Fireproof
Come be a part of cinematic history as we raise funds for Jim VanBebber’s new film Gator Green. Horror Boobs and Chainsaw Kiss present a VHS screening of Deadbeat at Dawn. Get there early for Jim VanBebber’s short films My Sweet Satan and The Last Days of John Martin, and a Horror Boobs trailer reel. [...]
Rhys Ifans Signing at Forbidden Planet NYC Monday June 25th
As part of Spider-Man Week NYC Rhys Ifans (AKA The Lizard in the forthcoming “The Amazing Spider-Man” flick) will be visiting the shop and signing free posters and memorabilia for fans this coming Monday night from 8pm-9pm! PLEASE NOTE: This is a ticketed event. Your ticket also grants you access to a special advanced screening [...]
Something Weird @ MAD Museum 6/9/12 7PM
Believe it or not all my rambling about VHS has paid off! The Museum of Art and Design, Jake Yuzna, Rebecca Cleman and I (Matthew Desiderio) have put together the mother of all VHS tributes with screenings, workshops, and a real functioning video store on site. VHS at MAD takes places between June 9th and August [...]
Graphic Canon Event at The Rubin Museum
To do/experience in NYC this Wednesday, May 23rd… Size constraints on the Daily Planet and/or your screen probably morph the above image into something Selma or Patty Bouvier might use to screw with you at the DMV, so here’s the above in plain text: Wednesday May 23, 2012 @ 7:00 PM Price: $12.00 Member Price: [...]
MICROWAVE MASSACRE Midnight Saturday @ Spectacle
Saturday, May 5th / Midnight Spectacle Theater 124 South 3rd Street. Williamsburg Brooklyn HORROR BOOBS presents: MICROWAVE MASSACRE dir. Wayne Berwick, 1983 76 mins, USA Donald & May are a working class couple in Los Angeles. When May decides she want to try up their social status by getting gourmet in the kitchen, she purchases a humongous new microwave. Donald, content [...]
Hyundai Undead 2012 Sweepstakes
Don’t know if you remember our last Walking Dead event contest, but if you were there you’ll know it was a slammin’ time. Well, there’s another super-rad gig going down at San Diego Comic-Con this year, and YOU could win a chance to be part of it… Hyundai Undead 2012 SweepstakesGamesRadar wants to bring you [...]
Monday 4/23 @ 6PM Rock N Roll Comics In-Store Signing
Just one more day till The Story of Rock N Roll Comics signing! The DVD’s are here and so are a handful of original Rock N Roll Comics! There will be giveaways all throughout the signing including free tickets to the screening of The Story of Rock N Roll Comics at Cinema Village that same [...]
Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh – 4/20, Midnight – Spectacle Theater
Friday, April 20th / Midnight Spectacle Theater 124 S. 3rd Williamsburg Brooklyn HORROR BOOBS presents: Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh dir. Alan Smithee, 1991 89min/USA/In English Investigating a horrible murder, Sgt. Joe Blocker and his partner Sgt. Sweeney Birdwell notice a curious similarity to case from their past. When more details surface – wearing Egyptian paraphernalia to [...]
SATURDAY – MARCH 31st – SPECTACLE SPACE JAM: SCI-FI MARATHON!
SATURDAY – MARCH 31st – SPECTACLE SPACE JAM: SCI-FI MARATHON! SPECTACLE THEATER • 124 South 3rd Street • Brooklyn, NY 11211 $25 Full Day Passes • $5 Individual Films • Visit Spectacle to purchase Noon – Last Man on Earth (dir. Ubaldo Regola, 1964) 1:30pm – Brother from Another Planet (dir. John Sayles, 1984) 3:30pm – [...]
METAL UP YOUR VCR!
This Thursday March 29 8PM @ Nitehawk Cinema METAL UP YOUR VCR! A VHS Tribute to HEAVY METAL! FREE! We’re cranking it to 11 with all new clips, videos, trailers and surprises – all headlined by a very special screening of the 1984 heavy metal (and aerobics) slasher classic ROCKTOBER BLOOD! Plus all the usual [...]
Demon Warp Midnight Friday 3/16 Spectacle Theater
This Friday night come out for another Horror Boob’s hosted Midnight Movie at the Spectacle Theater! Friday – March 16th, MidnightHorror Boobs presents: Demonwarp Directed by Emmett Alston 1988, 91 mins. Continuing with Spectacles history of bigfoot related midnight programs, the Horror Boobs crew returns with the worlds only (?) sci-fi, time travel, sasquatchploitation film! [...]