Win a Full Year of Free Comics from Oni Press, As Well As Prizes from Fantagraphics and Top Shelf!

Portland Oregon’s weekly alternative newspaper,The Mercury, is just opened bidding on their Annual Charity auction at http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Page?id=HolidayAuction&item=251!

Prizes this year include free comic books from two Portland comic shops, Bridge City Comics and Floating World Comics, as well as publisher donations from Fantagraphics and Top Shelf, and a full year of comps from Oni Press

Check out the full details below, and head to http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Page?id=HolidayAuction&item=251! to bid!

Oh, Comic Book Nerd!

Get all of your graphic novel needs for 2010 taken care of in one fell swoop! Local comics publisher Oni Press (onipress.com)—the geniuses who’ve brought us comics like Wasteland and the Scott Pilgrim series—have donated a spot on their comp list, meaning the winner of this auction will get copies of every book Oni publishes next year! You’ll also get selected comics from artsy comics publisher Fantagraphics , including books like Peter Bagge’s Buddy Does Seattle and a hardcover copy of Joe Sacco’s Palestine. Plus you’ll get a collected edition of Jeff Lemire’s beloved Essex County trilogy from local publisher Top Shelf! Plus you’ll get a stack of books from two of Portland’s best comic shops: Bridge City Comics (3725 NE Mississippi), including books like The Mirror of Love by Alan Moore and José Villarrubia and The Goon Fancy Pants Edition Volume 2 by Eric Powell, and Floating World Comics (20 NW 5th, Ste 101), including books like David Mack’s Kabuki: The Alchemy, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, and issues of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror and Criminal)! Those kazillion books will make the shelves in your nerd-lair mighty impressive—and we’ll help you tie the room together by giving the winner a photograph of Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica, autographed by actress Katee Sackhoff!

Item Details

Fantagraphics Graphic Novels include: Heartbreak Soup by Gilbert Hernandez, Maggie the Mechanic by Jamie Hernandez, Ghost World special edition hardcover by Daniel Clowes, Palestine special edition hardcover by Joe Sacco, Buddy Does Seattle by Peter Bagge

Bridge City comic book/graphic novel set includes: The Cemeterians By Aleister Gilgrim, Finder Book One: Sin-Eater by Carla Speed McNiel, The Goon Fancy Pants edition v. II by Eric Powell, Al Williamson: Hidden Lands by Yeats, Schultz and Riggenberg, Lenore: Wedgies by Roman Dirge, The Mirror of Love by Alan Moore and José Villarruba, Remake by Lamar Abrams, Superman: Up, Up and Away by Geoff Johns and Kurt Busiek, The Warlord Vol. 1 By Mike Grell, Wolverine: Blood Debt by Steve Skroce & Larry Strucker, DC Comics World War III (from the pages of 52) by various artists. And a DVD of Snakes and Ladders by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (from and original performance which premiered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square London, April 10th 1999

Floating World Package includes: Watchmen softcover by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, Kabuki: hte Alchemy hardcover by David Mack, Buenaventura Press Comics Revival 3 pack, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror #15 by various artists, The Sinners pt. 1 by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, The Caterer #3 by Jeff Lint & Brandon Sienkel