What is The Blank™ Comic Book?

It's just what its name suggests - 24 blank pages wrapped in a blank cardstock cover, standard comic book size and ready for whatever you want to do with it. Uses include:

• Drawing your own comic book
• Convention sketchbook (folks love getting custom-drawn covers!)
• Keeping lists that you want to file in your longbox
• Novelty present

...or anything else that comes to your mind!

Cover, The Blank™ Comic Book (second printing)

Ordering The Blank Comic Book in quantity

The Blank Comic Book is no longer offered through distributors, but sold wholesale direct from the manufacturer only. 150 copies can be had for $120 postpaid anywhere in Canada or the 48 contiguous US states, and will be received within four weeks.

50 copies can be had for $50 postpaid anywhere in the 50 U.S. states or DC. These will be shipped Priority Mail and will usually arrive within a week.

For those with more modest needs, 10 copies can be had for $25 postpaid anywhere in the 50 U.S. states or DC. These will be shipped Priority Mail and will usually arrive within a week.

California retailers: include your retailer ID in the comments to avoid sales tax charges.

The Blank™ Comic Book Panelbook

For those who want panels to draw in, here's a squarebound book with a simple panel grid to fill in. Each page has six panels.

cover and inside page of the Panelbook

Order from Amazon:

• 7"x10", 63 pages of panels, $6.99.
• 7"x10", 127 pages of panels, $8.34.

Also available from the European branches of Amazon.

The Blank™ Comic Book Gridbook

For those who like more complex layouts, these books are pre-ruled with light lines that will help you make the panel layout you want.

Some examples of the panel layouts you can make with the gridbook.

Order from Amazon:

• 7"x10", 63 ruled pages, $6.99.
• 7"x10", 127 ruled pages, $8.34.

Also available from the European branches of Amazon.

Please note that neither the Panelbook nor the Gridbook are printed on archival or acid-free stock; these are meant as design and thought sketchbooks, and not as the final home for your masterpiece. Printed on 60# white stock, they handle pencils and ink pens well, but markers are apt to bleed.

Retailers interested in carrying the Panelbook and the Gridbook should email About Comics for details on our wholesale plans.

Finding The Blank™ Comic Book single copies

The following retailers have ordered The Blank™ Comic Book from About Comics. We cannot guarantee that they have them in stock at the moment, so if you're worried about that, call ahead. But hey, isn't a visit to the comic shop a good idea even if they don't have The Blank?

• ARIZONA
• Atomic Comics, 1120 S. Country Club Dr. #105, Mesa, AZ 85210
• CALIFORNIA
• Corner Store Comics, 980 E. Orangethorpe Ave. Ste. A, Anaheim, CA 92801
• Crush Comics, 2869 Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley, CA 94546
  
• Flying Colors Comics, 2980 Treat Blvd., Concord, CA 94518
• Comickaze, 5517 A/B Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego CA 92117-2342
• Comix Experience, 305 Divisadero St., San Francisco, CA 94117
• Waterfront Comics, 609 Main St., Suisun City, CA 94585
• FLORIDA
• Famous Faces & Funnies, 3000 W New Haven Ave., West Melbourne, FL 32904
• GEORGIA
• Dr. No's Comics & Games Superstore, 3428 Canton Road, Marietta GA 30066
• KANSAS
• Elite Comics, 11842 Quivira Rd., Overland Park KS 66210
• MASSACHUSETTS
• Friendly Neighborhood Comics, 191 Mechanic St., Bellingham, MA 02019
• That's Entertainment, 244 Park Ave., Worcester, MA 01609
• MARYLAND
  
• Alliance Comics, 8317 Fenton St., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• NEW YORK
• Earthworld Comics, 537 Central Avenue, Albany, NY 12206
• OREGON
• Bridge City Comics, 3725 N. Mississippi Ave., Portland, OR 97227
• PENNSYLVANIA
• Brave New Worlds, 433 West Moreland Rd., Willow Grove, PA 19090
• TEXAS
• Lone Star Comics, 511 E. Abram St., Arlington, TX 76010-1202
• Austin Books, 5002 N Lamar Blvd., Austin TX 78751
• Madness Games & Comics, 3000 Custer Rd. #150, Plano TX 75075