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Looks like Free Comic Book Day has begun... Jesse James' Comics started theirs at one minute past midnight, with a hundred and twenty-five in line... Let

In one fell swoop, it's the goriest Free Comic Book Day comic to date, I think it's the first to get seriously sweary and basically it's the kind of comic that FCBD would not have allowed a few years ago Expect this to open the floodgates Do be careful when handing this one out to[...]

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. I'm not sure, we may have mentioned it. Dark Horse Comics have two free comics available. A Mass Effect/RIPD/Killjoys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe-ovhKBHF8 I always thought celebrity was the way to go. Here's something we did three years ago. Yeah, they probably got

  It's Free Comic Book Day tomorrow! So let's look at three kids comics from three publishers showing off a number of strips. First up, Top Shelf

DC's offering this year is an interesting choice. Their Superman book includes a chapter from Geoff Johns, Richard Donner and Adam Kubert's Last Son Of

Including, and I'm expecting this will annoy and delight in equal measures, a Free Comic Book Day price guide, looking at past FCBD publications that are now worth money. But I've also written a list of comics that could change your life, and great comics that not enough people recommend, from Arsenic Lullaby to Longshot Comics,[...]

  The comic retailer alliance around Larry's Comics and Jetpack Comics has been commissioning and creating quite a lot of exclusive covers for a

Will the Queen partake in Free Comic Book Day? I only ask because The Mall Galleries, just up the road from Buckingham Palace, will be hosting an

At just after seven pm last night, Acme Comics in Greensboro, North Carolina, had its first guy quueing up in line for Free Comic Book Day. On Saturday.

  Steve Anderson writes; 5 years ago, my wife and I were two kids barely in our mid-20s who dreamed of opening a comic book store. And, we did -- on

Free Comic Book Day is coming this Saturday. But lots of shops are going above and beyond, all around the world. Here are a few... Cards, Comics &

Created as a 12 Hour Comic by D.A. Bishop, though wash tones were added later, Squirrels will be given away as part of Free Comic Book Day at Toronto's

Flying Colors Comics of Northern California, the place Free Comic Book Day began, is running its first signing and sketching schedule from dawn till dusk,

3 Alarm Comics of Mississippi… Stadium Comics of Ontario has a signing with Ken Lashley, Marcus To, Ty Templeton, Adam Gorham, David Bishop and more… Andy Diggle is doing a signing in Edinburgh, Scotland at Forbidden Planet. And even Büyülü Dükkan in İstanbul is joining in for FCBD with a signing with Ivan Reis, Mahmud Asrar and Yildiray[...]

They will have three Midtown FCBD branded titles, Superman, Infinity and Valiant 2013. Zapp Comics in New Jersey will have a siging with Dan Slott in the afternoon. Third Eye of Maryland will also be marking their fifth anniversary on Free Comic Book Day. At their Annapolis store, they'll have Cullen Bunn, Charles Soule, Jerry & Penelope Gaylord,[...]

Often with separate shops for each. To one of the latter, Comics Zone in Lyon, Yanick Paquette is helping them promote their FCBD offering (Hmm, the acronym really gains something in French doesn't it? Free Comics, BD…?) Last year, the shop managed to give away three thousand comics to 450 people, including producing the SCARCE FCBD 2012,[...]

WHy is George comic? It must be the belly dancers. With DC pushingSuperman Unchained, with a free preview of the Snyder/Lee comic on FCBD, they are also putting All Star Superman, Superman Earth One, New 52 Action Comics, Superman For Tomorrow and Last Son Of Krypton collections in a consignment, so retailers can order large copies[...]

May the 4th, folks. $20 by the end of FCBD week do you reckon? The Walking Dead Free Comic Book Day comic this year will feature four short stories Three of which we have seen before, with The Governor, Michonne and Morgan And one, featuring Tyrese, which won't. The previous stories have appeared in a number of[...]

In 2011, comic stores ordered 2,700,000 comics for Free Comic Book Day. In 2012, that number rocket to 3,500,000. In 2013, it will go up again to

And that the top secret (even to me!) Marvel FCBD book has something to do with it. On Thanos Rising; In this issue, we see Thanos as he was born, and through his early teen years on Titan And we find out maybe why he's so obsessed with Death (hint: she's been by his side the whole[...]

America has one Free Comic Book Day on May the 4th 2013. So naturally, France has to do two. Inspired by the American event, on the 5th and 6th of April,

The successfully Kickstarter-funded Molly Danger from Jamal Igle is approaching completion, with the firstv sign in print, the Molly Danger FCBD title But what other characters will we be seeing apart from the titular Molly? Here's a look at some of Jamal's designs, courtesy of the great man himself. [...]

And Boom's Deathmatch. Filled with all-ages accessible previews, interviews and articles, Bleeding Cool Magazine FCBD is the perfect supplement to help readers new and old find the best comics and expand their experience at the party into a passion for a lifetime! Readers will find a "Collecting Comics 101" feature, the "Top Genre & Starter Graphic[...]

We've seen the Gold-level books for Free Comic Book Day 2013, we've seen Dark Horse and IDW's Silver books, and now we have Dynamite's two comics – Grimm and Damsels. FCBD 2013 GRIMM Covers: Whilce Portacio Writer: David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf Art: Jose Malaga Discover the characters, creatures and inspiration behind the storyline of NBC's hit-series, Grimm!  From the[...]

We've seen the IDW Gold FCBD comic for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, here's their Silver level book, Judge Dredd Classics, with  all-new colours on classic Dredd stories And their FCBD version will have the Brian Bolland Judge Death stories and some never-previously-coloured Walter The Wobot strips. And, as well as the Star Wars/Captain Midnight/Avatar The Last[...]

Full of action, excitement and laughs, this is the perfect all-ages comic to get you seeing green!! THE WALKING DEAD FCBD 2013 SPECIAL (W) Robert Kirkman (A/CA) Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn This special Walking Dead issue contains a new Tyreese short story, a fan-favorite character who just made his television debut in The Walking Dead Season 3! It[...]

From Joe Field, the man who invented Free Comic Book Day from his store Four Color Comics, telling us how the whole thing came about - and how it looks

A week ago, Bleeding Cool unveiled the now-named Hallowe'en Comic Fest offerings from Diamond for 2012, in which comic stores will has special comics in

Revival is the new Tim Seeley book from Image Comics being premiered in The Walking Dead #99. It made its first appearance in the Image Free Comic Book