Support Local Creatives, Explore New Worlds with FoCo Comic Con’s Geeky Gift Guide – 2025 Edition
Warp into a season of geeky goodness with our 2025 Holiday Geeky Gift Guide!
We’re honored to spotlight local artists, authors, makers, and creators. Every suggested purchase in this guide supports a human in our community, keeps indie stories and art alive, and helps fuel next year’s projects, conventions, and creative risks. It’s the best bet for your Holiday shopping and certainly easier than taking someone’s aunt’s elbow to the face during Black Friday.
This year’s guide features everything from cozy queer fantasy novels and indie comics to frog-themed gamer merch, leather armor, whimsical rodent adventurers, anime collectibles, etched barware, steampunk decor, and more. Whether you’re shopping for a forever-GM, a queer fantasy reader, an anime superfan, or a kid who loves adventure stories, you’ll find something here that feels just right.
Many of these creators have special FC3-only discounts, bundles, or bonus offers so you can power up your gifting while stretching your credits a little further. If you missed ’em at FoCo Comic Con 2025, here’s your chance to undo your missed con-portunity.
From fantasy and sci-fi fans to romantics, book lovers, kids, and gamers, this guide has something for every geeky heart.
Shop Local, Become a Creator’s Superhero!
When you buy from these creators, you’re helping an artist pay for their next print run, a writer fund their next book, a crafter buy materials, and providing a path for a local nerd to keep doing what they love. Your gift becomes part of a bigger story: a message of geeky love rooted in Northern Colorado’s creative community.
Dive into the 2025 Geeky Gift Guide and make this holiday season legendary:
Geeky Gift Purveyors
Artists
Floating Frogs
Cute and silly frog-themed art for anyone who loves a little chaos with their cozy. Floating Frogs blends adorable amphibians with gamer humor and geeky vibes—perfect for decking out laptops, water bottles, notebooks, and game cases.
Sample Gifts: Vinyl stickers (around $4), enamel pins and keychains (about $15), and charms in the $10–$12 range.
Perfect for: Any age, gamers, animal lovers
puppySHAKER!
A Denver-based Korean-American artist creating fan-art inspired by video games, with a shop full of stickers, prints, charms, pins, card decks, and more. Think vibrant, playful, and very “I need that on my console, like, now.”
Sample Gifts: Vinyl stickers (singles $4–$8, sheets $10 with “buy 4, get 1 free”), card decks (~$35, includes a free bookmark), and stylish two-piece bandana sets (~$20).
Special Offer: 15% off your first order with code FOCOCC (expires January 31, 2026).
Perfect for: Videogames, gamers, hobbyists
Skye’s Art Studio
Nerdy stickers and stationery designed especially for tabletop fans—whether it’s your beloved GM or that one player who absolutely cannot roll above a 5. Cute, clever, and deeply relatable for TTRPG tables everywhere.
Sample Gifts: D&D bundles, “this is totally not a mimic” stickers and keychains, strawberry jester bundles, and mystery packs.
Special Offer: Automatic free shipping on purchases of $15 or more.
Perfect for: TTRPG fans, adults, gamers
The Sentient Squirrel
Where whimsical art meets story-rich worldbuilding. The Sentient Squirrel’s “Order of Rodentia” features tiny woodland adventurers heading out on big quests—brought to life as figurines, jewelry, and other treasures for daydreamers of all ages.
Sample Gifts: One-of-a-kind rodent figurines, earrings, necklaces, and more.
Perfect for: Teens, adults, animal lovers, fans of quirky charm
Coventry Decor
“Barware for the grown-up geek.” Coventry Decor etches your favorite fandoms into glasses and more, so your next game night, movie marathon, or cocktail hour quietly screams “geek” in the classiest way possible.
Sample Gifts: Fandom-etched glasses, vinyl decals, and dice terrariums.
Perfect for: Home goods lovers, anime and pop culture fans
NightmaricSpirit
An illustrator with a flair for the dark and surreal, blending dystopian moods with stylized anime influences. From prints to stickers, each piece captures beauty in chaos and rebellion in every line.
Sample Gifts: Art prints, stickers, keychains, and a sticker book.
Special Offer: Storewide 25% off, with discounted/discontinued items at 30% off—no code needed.
Perfect for: Teens and young adults, fantasy and dystopian fans
Finer Lines Art
Fun and fantastical illustration and calligraphy that leans fully into the “tabletop nerd” aesthetic. Expect pin-up-style monster manual ladies, fantasy-inspired pieces, and custom character art that turns your OC into a keepsake.
Sample Gifts: Stickers and prints, traditional holiday cards, custom D&D character portraits, and custom calligraphy projects.
Special Offer: Various special offers throughout the holiday season—check the shop for current deals.
Perfect for: Tabletop nerds and the cool kids
Authors
Evan Hundhausen & Brian Loner
High-action, fantasy-forward comics and graphic novels following Jill the Treasure Huntress—a warrior, watcher, and adventurer rolled into one. Great for readers who love bold art and classic quest energy.
Sample Gifts: Jill the Treasure Huntress: Watching Warrior (print and e-comic), plus related sketchbooks and extras.
Perfect for: Comic book enthusiasts, fantasy lovers
Pulsar Publishing (Kia Leep)
Nerdy, queer fantasy adventures for readers who love the cozy, character-rich feel of D&D, Studio Ghibli, and The Owl House. These stories balance heartfelt relationships, magic systems, and big emotional arcs.
Sample Gifts: Friendly Fyre: A Cozy Queer Kingdom Builder, Glass Kanin: A Monster Evolution LitRPG, and Nyte in Shining Armor: A Vampire Knight Queer Romantasy.
Perfect for: Queer fantasy readers
AwesomeinAction.org – Nick Roussos
Helping in Action takes kids on an African adventure with Nick, his family, and an orphaned lion cub named Sandy. Along the way, readers see different ways of moving, speaking, and navigating the world, wrapped in an action-packed story.
Sample Gifts: The Helping in Action storybook, perfect as a read-aloud or early reader favorite.
Perfect for: Kids ages 4–8, action-adventure fans
Gaming & Collectibles
Robin’s Nerd Supplies
Robin’s Nerd Supplies is a purveyor of fun and fantastical TTRPG dice and goodies.
Sample Gifts: Original dice designs and accessories for TTRPGs and board games.
Special Offer: Use the code “GeekyGift” for 10% off your order, or 50% off on most sets with Black Friday.
Perfect for: Gamers
VAGABOND
A treasure trove of anime-themed merch, art, and collectibles. If you’ve got someone who lives for their favorite shows, this is where you’ll find figures, plushies, and trading cards that hit their fandom sweet spot.
Sample Gifts: Figures, plushies, keychains, trading cards, and more.
Perfect for: Anime lovers and collectors of all ages
Crafters & Makers
Foxkin Foundry
Handcrafted leather armor and costume pieces that look like they stepped right out of your favorite campaign or fantasy novel. Each piece is built to embody story, character, and craftsmanship—ideal for cosplay, LARP, or statement everyday wear.
Sample Gifts: Leather armor, cloaks, pouches, holsters, and satchels.
Special Offer: 20% off all in-stock items and 10% off custom commissions with code FC3GIFT25 (valid through 12/31/25).
Perfect for: Fantasy and cosplay fans
Funkmaster Lovecraft Studios
Jewelry and home decor with a steampunk vibe, all handcrafted from vintage materials. These pieces feel like artifacts from a world that might have been—strange, beautiful, and full of stories.
Sample Gifts: Necklaces, molded resin decor, wall hangings, and wind chimes.
Special Offer: 20% off with promo code FOCO2025.
Perfect for: Anyone with a love of forgotten things and steampunk aesthetics
Creators & Multitalented Nerds
Heresy Studios, LLC
Locally made independent horror and superhero comics for readers who like their stories dark, weird, and a little unsettling—in the best way. If you know someone who never skips spooky season, this is their section.
Sample Gifts: Two-Eyed Tales (black & white horror anthology), Dr. Orange (psychological horror), and Order of Dracula (WWI horror series).
Perfect for: Teens, adults, comic book enthusiasts
Nine Lions
A one-stop fantasy shop featuring books, graphic novels, handmade jewelry, bookmarks, and colorful traditional artwork. If you’ve got a reader who also loves pretty, tactile goodies, this is an easy win.
Sample Gifts: Journeys of PearlHeart (novel), Gem Music and Other Silent Comics (graphic novel), blue agate drop earrings, winter animal bookmarks, and “Mice and Spice” watercolor originals.
Perfect for: Fantasy lovers and handmade-item fans
Wherever you start: books, art, minis, jewelry, or collectibles, every purchase in this guide helps keep local creativity thriving. Share the guide, grab a few gifts, and let your holiday shopping be one more way you support the nerdy, wonderful community around Fort Collins Comic Con.
Wanna go further with your support of local creatives? Consider donating to Howdy Neighbor Events (our 501c3) Superhero Creator Campaign – there’s even a match from now through Colorado Gives Day!
