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Diamond is reporting that orders so far top 5.6 million free comic books, an increase on 2014's 4.65 million orders in total, a 21% increase – with only an 8% increase in participating stores (2340 of them). It seems as though this year's Free Comic Book Day will be the biggest yet by some margin… Read previous FCBD coverage[...]

Bleeding Cool has reported on retailers upset that the Image Comics FCBD title this year is Savage Dragon, ahead of the spinoff launch of Savage Dragon: Legacy. They are still complaining and, odds are, will be complaining at the ComicsPRO meeting as well. One of the Image Comics launch titles from Image founder Erik Larsen, it recently[...]

Well now isn't that nice? Marvel Comics have announced that they will be launching their Free Comic Book Day titles in a Spanish compilation issue to

Here is a little preview of that FCBD title… and an idea of what is to come… Tales Of Honor, written by Top Cow publisher Matt Hawkins, came out as a comic book last year, drawn by Linda Sejic Based on the series of Honor Harrington novels written/created by David Weber,[...]

The comic company Valiant first appeared on store shelves in 1990 with a list of talent that included: Jim Shooter, Bob Layton, Barry Windsor-Smith, David

Comics Festival has been shoring up its creative list for Free Comic Book Day. Promoting the Toronoto Comic Art Festival, the anthology features strips

This morning, we learned that DC's Gold Free Comic Book Day title would be called Divergence, and would preview upcoming comics including Justice League, Superman and Well now we know the second Silver Books title as well… and it's a Teen Titans Go/Scooby Doo Team Up, with two of DC's successful all ages titles. DC Entertainment's all-ages FCBD[...]

Fight Club 2 is the official comic book sequel written by Chuck Palahniuk, to the original Fight Club novel written by Chuck Palahniuk. And it's out on

DC's Gold Book offering for Free Comic Book Day will be Divergence, playing off the title of Convergence. Previewing the launch of the Darkseid War, hence

There are fifty free comic books for Free Comic Book Day this year. And here is a sneak peek at thirty-five of them. Yes, this took a long time. Hope it

There are fewer Free Comic Book Day titles on offer this year than last. And there are even fewer all-ages comics. Ostensibly aimed at getting kids into

Marvel's Free Comic Book Day title in March had been solicited as FCBD Secret Wars #1 Even though an actual Secret Wars #1 is shipping in May. It will now be called Secret Wars #0 – which indicates a whole different kind of comic book An FCBD #1 might indicate a preview of sorts, a sneek peek at[...]

That's what being bought out by a Diamond Premier Publisher does for you. IDW's acquisition of Top Shelf Comix means that they will be printing their Free

Marvel's Free Comic Book Day entry Secret Wars #0 will be the starting point for Secret Wars, a "bit of a primer" Tom Brevoort said. Also, Marvel will be

DC Comics are letting comic stores create customised versions of their Free Comic Book Day Gold level comic book, giving us a first tease of what's in it,

That's the bare minimum, most retailers will order thousands, tens of thousands of comics and spend the equivalent. In return, you will be listed on freecomicbookday.com, get promotion for your store's activities, and get a posters, window and shelf signs. But what if you want to be more selecting of the comics you give away to your community?[...]

This is what you call a Rich Twitch? Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported concerns from some retailers that the Doctor Who Free Comic Book Day title offered

It might be a good way to reintroduce people to this Image Comics stalwart with this new spinoff series. As Image's Gold level book for FCBD, stores will have to order at least 25 copies to even participate in the event But some stores are not happy about this at all Even though, at a minimum,[...]

Based on that, how closely will the app and the film tie into the comics, or are they more closely related to material that's only found in the novels? MH: I think all of these will be their own thing, but part of the canon of the Honorverse.  I look at the Honorverse just like I[...]

From Archaia's Mouse Guard, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, and new title Iscariot; KaBoom!'s Garfield, Peanuts, Regular Show, and a new Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake story; and Boom! Box's Lumberjanes, Munchkin, and Help Us! Great Warrior, there's something in this free, 48-page issue for everyone! 48 pgs. Fight Club/The Goon/The Strain—FCBD 2015 Edition – Dark Horse Comics Chuck Palahniuk[...]

Not even I can break through these (though odds are one of them is Darkseid War.) And while last year saw 50 Silver books, this year that has been slashed to 38 as part of #FCBDGate... The Gold Books – we previously scooped all details on those. Dark Circle Comics #1 Bongo Comics Free-For-All Boom Studios 10th Anniversary Special Dark Horse Fight Club[...]

So we will really be seeing a lot of Eric Powell in 2015! Here's the solicit image for Dark Horse's FCBD issue, featuring the Goon in "Colonel Nosferatu's Underground Soiree": It's a cursed town, we've learned, and how can one man moving in that environment escape being cursed himself? Eric Powell's long running title The Goon[...]

From Archaia's Mouse Guard, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, and new title Iscariot; KaBoom!'s Garfield, Peanuts, Regular Show, and a new Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake story; and Boom! Box's Lumberjanes, Munchkin, and Help Us! Great Warrior, there's something in this free, 48-page issue for everyone! 48 pgs. Fight Club/The Goon/The Strain—FCBD 2015 Edition – Dark Horse Comics Chuck Palahniuk[...]

This is the design for the official T-shirt for Free Comic Book Day 2015, featuring a variety of people reading comics, race, gender and alien

Free Comic Book Day has reduced its offering to fifty titles, back in 2012 levels, rather than the sixty-plus titles of recent years, due to what one FCBD committee member dubbed "the locusts." This year, Free Comic Book Day ischeduled for Saturday May 2nd, 2015. Last year a record of 4.7 million copies of comics were given[...]

Last week Bleeding Cool ran the scoop that the number of titles being offered to retailers on Free Comic Book Day would be slashed back to fifty – and that there were complaints from publishers expecting to use FCBD to launch and promote upcoming comics into the direct marketplace. One retailer on the FCBD advisory board had[...]

Some seemed to feel that was too many, with less focus and too much of a burden on retailers who felt forced to carry the entire range This year, that is being slashed back to fifty titles. Publishers expecting their submissions to go through without problems have have discovered their two titles slashed to one – or[...]

This year we were giving out fifty Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie tickets to the first 50 people in line, and $25 worth of merchandise including graphic novels, comics and collectibles to the first fifty people in line as well as $15 in merchandise to the next fifty in line. In addition to the five free comics everyone[...]

  From the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, a break down of how Free Comic Book Day did, by the numbers...   Basically more comics ordered

The Dork Tower's John Kovalic had a dilemma. This was the Free Comic Book Day comic that he picked up from Dynamite. I'm hardly a prude. But here's the