Our artists are all set up and ready for your visits! Tons of great gifts for fans of cats and dogs, D&D and fantasy, and lots of holiday cards! Today we are hosting: April M Baird Wuckajuice Radical Cat Creations

Our Annual Holiday Markets are set! ❄️🛍️✨❄️🛍️✨❄️🛍️✨❄️🛍️✨ See you November 29th, and December 6th, 13th, and 20th! 11am-4pm each Saturday A wonderful opportunity to shop directly from local artists and makers! This year's poster by April Baird

Our Annual Holiday Markets are set! ❄️🛍️✨❄️🛍️✨❄️🛍️✨❄️🛍️✨ See you November 29th, and December 6th, 13th, and 20th! 11am-4pm each Saturday A wonderful opportunity to shop directly from local artists and makers! This year's poster by April Baird

Many Ent-sized thanks to the lovely Sean Astin for adventuring to @halconscificon.bsky.social 🌳✨ It was such a treat to gift a copy of Recipes from the World of Tolkien. I hope you enjoy! And thanks to @sarahcillustration.bsky.social for the perfect post-its to mark all the recipes with potatoes! 🥔

As David said Friday evening referring to @halconscificon.bsky.social, "The world may be on fire, but in here - we glow." 🫂 💚💜💚

Hal-Con 2025 was a beautiful blur of fabulous community, incredible creativity, and amazing sales! Thanks to all the super-human volunteers who make @halconscificon.bsky.social happen each year! And thanks to everyone who popped by our booth! 🙏🏼🩵🎉✨

Super excited for this weekend!! 🥰💚 @halconscificon.bsky.social Booths C9 & C10 🛍️🩵 More sneak peeks soon! 📚✨ See you soon, everyone! We're open regular hours in Sackville as well! Friday and Saturday 11am-5pm 🛍️

Thank you so much for all the love in Community Votes! Honored to tie for Platinum in Comic Shops with Strange Adventures! 🏆🥇 Platinum in Toys & Collectibles, Gold in Hobbies & Games, Silver in Video Games, and Bronze in Book Shops and Hobby & Craft Shops! Thank you! & Congrats to all who placed! ✨

Auction Live Now If you’ve already checked it out, go back and look again! So many more items have been added and continue to be added! #HalCon2025 buff.ly/D6PnYIW

On the radio today, I was a guest of the Todd Veinotte show. You can hear me at the 37 minute mark, talking about what's going on here. Thanks to this show for the call, and for the conversation. halifax.citynews.ca/podcasts/the...

We've got a limited number of "Parks Belong to the People" fundraiser long-sleeve t-shirts available for $20 each, with 100% proceeds going to support the folks protecting West Mabou Beach Provincial Park in Cape Breton 🏞️ www.savewestmaboubeach.com Thanks @katebeaton.bsky.social for your advocacy!

Find us at @halconscificon.bsky.social Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, November 7th to 9th! 🩵💚🩵 Booths C9 & C10 The shop will be open regular hours as usual Friday and Saturday 11am-5pm 📚🛍️✨

Thank you so much to Terry Angus and his wife Cheryl for spending some time with us for our Halloween Party!! 🎃🧙🏼✨ And thanks to everyone who attended! We had so much fun with Sidney the Witch, Kermit, Fozzy, and Butch the Cat! 🧙🏼🐸🐻😼 See you at Hal-Con! 🩵💚🩵

Halloween Party! 🎃🎉 Costumes encouraged! 🦸🏼🦹🏼🧙🏼🧝🏼🧛🏼 Friday, October 31st 2:00 to 4:30 pm Local puppetry legend Terry Angus will be joining us with some of his friends including Sidney the Witch from Blizzard Island! There will also be some free comics and treats as supplies last! 📚🎃 And a SALE!!! 🛍️✨

11 years ago, Cape & Cowl opened its doors! 🎉 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you so much to all our supporters for being a part of the C&C journey so far! We've made it through many challenging times while running a small business, but we've got tons and tons of heart and there is so much more to do! 💪🏻🩵💕

You can find me at Stop 15 in La Grange at l'Acadie de Chezzetcook (79 Hill Road, West Chezzetcook) this Sunday from 10am-5pm for this year's Surfside Studio Tour! I'm sharing space with @muddysquirrelstudios, @jessedunleavy, and @chezcraftartisancrafts this year, come by and say hi!

Celebrating ELEVEN years in business this weekend!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 As a thank you to so many years of support we're offering our customers 25% OFF all board games and back issue comics!! 📚🧩🛍️✨ Friday September 26th and Saturday September 27th - 11am-5pm!!

My prints are officially for sale at Cape and Cowl comics, in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia! I'm blessed to have such an amazing opportunity to sell my work at a Trans owned shop🥰 Thanks Jay and Blair!

Once again Back Issues Comicon falls on Batman Day, Saturday September 20th! To celebrate, we’re introducing a door prize! Every paid entrance fee receives a ticket entering them into the draw for a Jim Starlin Batman print, signed by Jim Starlin himself! More details at: www.BackIssuesComicon.com

This Saturday! 9am to 3pm. 61 Dundas St. Dartmouth. 60 tables of comic book vendors, artists. guests and more! Your entry fee automatically enters you for our #Batmanday prize: a Jim Starlin Batman print signed by Jim Starlin! Draw details available at the event and in a previous post.

Back to School Sale!! All this week, Tuesday, September 2nd to Saturday, September 6th - 11am-5pm! 20% OFF all novels, comics, RPG books, graphic novels, and coloring books!!

Witch Hazel Variety Hour is out tomorrow! This gorgeous 48 pages of witchy fun has a gold foil cover, games and puzzles, and a STICKER SHEET!! 🤩🤩🤩🎉🎉🎉 Dang, @coltonthefox.bsky.social & @icedtaho.bsky.social you two really knocked it out of the park! 🛍️📚✨ From @silversprocket.net ($13.85 CAD each)

See you all Tuesday Aug. 5th 11am-5pm for Jay's Birthday Sale!! 🥳🛍️✨ 42% OFF Back Issues, Comic Sets, Funko Pops, and Action Figures!! Plus more special deals and door prizes! If you're a fan of The Muppets, Blizzard Island, and puppets in general, come see Terry Angus and friends around 1pm!! 😺🩵🎉

"Commit to loving yourself completely. It's the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime." - Andrea Gibson 🩵💕 Happy Pride, Halifax! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Bloom and shine 🌺✨ Forever grateful for our incredible community 🙏🏻

Happy birthday to the absolutely incredible Terry Angus!! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for the joy and nostalgia you have brought to us, and to the C&C community over this last year! We are truly grateful and honored! 🩵🙏🏻

Please join us in congratulating our 2025 Asher MacDonald You First Award winner Echo Gallagher! 🎉🎉🎉 Echo has chosen to donate the monetary portion of his award to a place very close to both our hearts, the incredible NS Youth Project & their Camp Coyote program. 💚💚💚 (More details on insta and fb)

Sunday at Propeller Arcade in Halifax! 12-4pm! See you there! We'll have tons of 19+ manga, comics, magazines, and RPGs!

I am SO excited! I dropped off my first batch of Hair Beans with the AMAZING Jay at @capeandcowl.bsky.social Every penny from Hair Beans will go towards building Care Grown Collective. It will pay for our domain name, website and development tools. My heart is full of gratitude!

Save the date for the Pride Book Fair! 📚🎉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Saturday, July 26th 12-3pm at The Pink Piano - 585 Sackville Drive, in Lower Sackville. More info here and on our Facebook event page coming soon! ✨

Never shrink your shine 🏳️‍⚧️✨

✨🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍⚧️✨ Submissions are open for the 2025 Asher MacDonald You First Award! To nominate a local 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in the community who is showing exemplary action advocating for more love, inclusion, and accessibility in Nova Scotia, email [email protected] For more info, visit our website! 🩵

Some more snaps from Free Comic Book Day! Thanks again to everyone who came out! 📚🥳

FCBD was an absolute blast this year! 🥳 Thank you so much to everyone who came out, we hope you had fun! Special thank yous to our wonderful friends Terry and Cheryl Angus, and the Spider-Men Isaac and Calum for spending time with the community! We were so honored & thankful for you to all be there!

We will be celebrating Canadian Independent Bookstore Day today, Saturday, April 26th! Pop by and check out tons of local author's and artist's works, and enjoy special sale prices on comics, comic sets, graphic novels, Archie digests, and books of all kinds! See you 11am to 5pm!

You never know who you'll see at Cape & Cowl, Waka waka! 😄🐻 Thanks as always for the visit, Terry (and Fozzie!)

Absolutely incredible Pride & Pokemon mash-up stickers and pins are in stock now! $5 each 🛍️✨ Huge thanks to Manje Artworks who is donating 100% proceeds of these stickers and pins to our outreach programs! 🏳️‍⚧️💕 To support and learn more about our binder and care package programs, see our website!

To all my trans fam: I see you. You are loved. You are worth doing the important work to be your most authentic self. Never listen to the haters. You got this. You will continue to thrive more and more. Stay on target. You have lots of people in your corner, and that includes me.  💪🏻🏳️‍⚧️  🩵 Jay #TDOV

FREE STICKERS! And they're weatherproof! Come and get 'em! 💪🏻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨

Starting tomorrow, we're celebrating rest and relaxation with a March Break Sale on single issue comics! 🛍️📚🎉 Kick back and relax with some new weeklies and back issue comics, including the $1 boxes at 25% off all week! In store only, open Tuesday to Saturday 11am-5pm! See you soon! 📚🛍️✨

Ed Brisson @edbrisson.bsky.social joins us tomorrow from 12-2pm! 📚✨ We'll have a great selection of comics and books written by Ed for you to buy and have signed!

#ProtectTransKids Bought this at @capeandcowl.bsky.social a few weeks back.

Heres me dropping copies off copies of issue 9 to a local comic shop @capeandcowl.bsky.social

Big day out signing more books!! A visit to my good friend Jay at @capeandcowl.bsky.social and a bunch of signed Shark Girls and another haul of comics and local stickers for myself!! I am the family comic provider in this family ;)

Thanks again to The Pink Piano 🎹🩷 for hosting an absolutely awesome and special book launch event for Chad Lucas! 📚🎉 And thanks to everyone who came out! If you haven't already bought Chad's books, no worries! He was kind enough to sign lots of copies of The Vanished Ones and Let the Monster Out!

Join local author Chad Lucas at The Pink Piano Café today, Feb. 22nd, 2:30 to 4:00 pm to celebrate the book launch of The Vanished Ones and the paperback edition of Let the Monster Out! We'll be there selling these, and his other awesome books! We'll be open regular hours at the shop too! 11am-5pm

Thank you so much to Rougie and our interpreters for the wonderful storytime yesterday, and thanks so much to everyone who came out to the event! What a wonderful day spending time with community! 💃🏻📚🌈✨

Launch party for The Vanished Ones and the paperback edition of Let The Monster Out! I’m happy to be partnering on this one with The Pink Piano and @capeandcowl.bsky.social, two local businesses that are passionate about being LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces. Come join us on Feb. 22!

Trump is saying dumb and dangerous things about trans people again, so I'd like to counter that with a plug for a great book by a trans author: Gumballs by @erin-nations.bsky.social. His cartoons are eyeopening (and wonderfully silly when he wants to them be.) #TransPeopleAreRealPeople

Cover Debut! - Doodles by Ryoko Kui: Daydream Hour From author of Delicious in Dungeon, Ryoko Kui, comes a compilation of hundreds of pages of comics, sketches, and full color illustrations drawn over the course of the hit series’ creation! Pre-order Here: https://buff.ly/3WfgWFQ

When muppeteer treasure Terry Angus blesses you with his friendship 🥰✨