We spotlight Microscale building in BrickJournal #36, which is shipping now. You won’t believe how these builders can get to the essence of a design, eliminate extraneous details, and capture the look they’re after with fewer and smaller LEGO bricks. Check out the free preview and order by clicking the link above.

Through September 14, we’re having our Brick To School sale on all our LEGO books and magazines. So it’s the best time to complete your collection of BrickJournal magazine, or try out our books on Minifigure Customizing and our You Can Build It Lego instruction books.

Just click the banner at the top of www.twomorrows.com and you’ll be taken to the full list of Lego items. Happy building!

Today would’ve been Jack Kirby’s 98th birthday, and to celebrate, the Jack Kirby Museum is working with Jack’s granddaughter Jillian Kirby and her Kirby4Heroes campaign, to raise funds for The Hero Initiative. The Kirby Museum is donating half the proceeds from their t-shirt sales today to the cause. Great shirts, and a great cause! Click the link above to order your Kirby shirt today! (Shown here are just a couple of the great designs!)

…to get all the packages from our 40% off “No-Con” sale shipped. Thanks for your patience (and for all the orders), everybody! Hope to have it all caught up by Friday.

Len Wein, co-creator of Wolverine and Swamp Thing, is featured in Alter Ego #135, shipping today. Awesome interview with the Silver Age legend!

And the spotlight’s on Bronze Age International Comic Book Heroes in Back Issue #83, now shipping. Editor Michael Eury hits another home run with this issue! Fastner/Larson cover: woo-hoo!

Click on the links to see a free preview of each mag, and to order. Both ship TODAY from TwoMorrows. (See what I did there?) And in stores next week.

Whether you miss Comic-Con, or MISSED Comic-Con, TwoMorrows is here to help with our NO-CON SALE!

Now through this Sunday (August 23rd), we’re offering all our in-stock PRINT items at a whopping 40% OFF cover price, just like we did last month in San Diego. (Honest, we’re not conning you–just offering great savings!)

So hit the virtual exhibit hall at www.twomorrows.com for all five days, and stock up on the best comics and LEGO publications around–and all without having to fight crowds and dodge cosplayers!

This sale is for PRINT items only, ordered at our webstore through midnight on Sunday, August 23, 2015. The sale does NOT include new and upcoming releases, subscriptions, bundles, or digital editions. (But if a digital edition is available, you’ll automatically get it FREE with your paid print copy.) And PLEASE BE PATIENT if you order near the end of the sale period, as an offer like this will undoubtedly flood us with orders, which may take a few extra days to get shipped.

Between our kids volleyball and Irish Dance competitions, convention travel, and vacation, my family has logged a LOT of miles traveling this summer (Florida, Rhode Island, California, Costa Rica, and the beautiful North Carolina beaches), and it’s been exhilarating, to say the least. But just because school is revving up and summer is winding down, that doesn’t mean TwoMorrows has any fewer electrifying items to send your way.

Case in point: Comic Book Creator #9, which is shipping today from TwoMorrows, and should be in comics shops next week. The spotlight this time is on Joe Staton, a longtime favorite of mine for his JSA and Huntress work. After getting his start on E-Man at Charlton, he went to do work for all the majors, and is currently the artist on the Dick Tracy newspaper strip.

Also featured is part one of an in-depth interview with Marvel Comics legend Stan Goldberg, who colored most of the early pivotal Marvel issues (think FF #1, Hulk #1, etc.), did romance and Archie stories, and more.

Plus editor Jon B. Cooke offers up a fascinating slate of other features and columns. So check out the free preview and order HERE!

Jon B. Cooke’s COMIC BOOK CREATOR magazine just got a Harvey Award nomination for BEST BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, or JOURNALISTIC PRESENTATION. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. They will be presented September 26, 2015 in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con.

These are the only industry awards both nominated and selected by comic book professionals. Voting is open to anyone professionally involved in a creative capacity within the comics field. Final ballots are available at www.harveyawards.org, so if you’re eligible, go ahead and vote now before you forget!

Back Issue #82 (84 full-color pages, $8.95) looks at pivotal Bronze Age Events! With extensive coverage of the Avengers/Defenders War, JLA/JSA crossovers, Secret Wars, Crisis’ 30th anniversary, Legends, Millennium, Invasion, Infinity Gauntlet, and more! Featuring the work of SAL BUSCEMA, DICK DILLIN, TODD McFARLANE, GEORGE PÉREZ, JOE STATON, LEN WEIN, MARV WOLFMAN, MIKE ZECK, and more. Plus an Avengers vs. Defenders cover by JOHN BYRNE! Edited by MICHAEL EURY.

Alter Ego #134 (84 pages with FULL COLOR, $8.95) celebrates SOL BRODSKY—one of the most important and underrated artists in comics! He inked Fantastic Four #3-4 and designed its logo—became Marvel’s production manager during crucial years—co-founded Skywald, then Marvel’s British weeklies! Daughter JANNA PARKER talks about her father—and so do STAN LEE, HERB TRIMPE, STAN GOLDBERG, DAVID ANTHONY KRAFT, TONY ISABELLA, ROY THOMAS, and others! Learn about his work on Blue Beetle, Kid Colt Outlaw, Red Cross (his Holyoke creation!), Volton, and Cracked Mazagine! Plus FCA, MICHAEL T. GILBERT, BILL SCHELLY, and more! Cover portrait by JOHN ROMITA! Edited by ROY THOMAS.

Click the links above to see a free preview and order! Both will be in stores next Wednesday (July 29) and are now shipping directly form us.

While TwoMorrows HQ will remain open so you can take advantage of our 40% off sale on Artists Biographies (and order our new Monster Mash and Herb Trimpe books), I’m leaving tomorrow (natch!) for sunny San Diego and our annual pilgrimage to Comic-Con International.

This year, we’re nominated for not one, but TWO Eisner Awards (alas, both in the same category, so they’ll likely split the vote). But hats off to Roy Thomas and ALTER EGO, and Jon B. Cooke and COMIC BOOK CREATOR for the nods for Best Comic-Related Publication (or website, or blog, or who knows what else our print pubs are getting lumped against these days).

At booth #1301 (our usual spot, next to the Golden & Silver Age Pavilion, just inside the main entrance to Hall B), we’ll be offering 40% off nearly everything at our booth. So if you’re there, elbow through the crowd and stop by to chat. We love, love, love talking to our readers each year. It personally energizes me to get to hear what we’re doing right, wrong, and what you’d like to see us do that we’re not already doing. See you there!