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Free Comic Book Day is coming… May 6th 2017… and Bleeding Cool has the scoop on the gold titles that all stores must offer to participate. Borg Data, bearded Picard, cleavage Deanna, it can only be… STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION: MIRROR BROKEN — FCBD 2017 EDITION IDW PUBLISHING (W) Scott Tipton, David Tipton (A/CA) J[...]

Free Comic Book Day is coming… May 6th 2017… and Bleeding Cool has the scoop on the gold titles that all stores must offer to participate. Including Dark Horse Comics publishing comics based on James Cameron's Avatar franchise They already publish Avatar: The Last Airbender, the James Cameron bit might help distinguish between them – and[...]

Free Comic Book Day is coming… May 6th 2017… and Bleeding Cool has the scoop on the gold titles that all stores must offer to participate. Well, even though Marvel and DC are being very secretive… DC COMICS GOLD BOOK—FCBD 2017 EDITION (W/A/CA) TBD A special, Top Secret project too big to announce! Please check back in the February[...]

Free Comic Book Day 2017 is on May 6th. And this is the bookmark design for it by Rian Sygh of The Backstagers, Fiona and Cake and Munchkin… expect to see this used elsewhere as well. Free Comic Book Day 2017 is on May 6th. And this is the bookmark design for it by Rian Sygh of The Backstagers,[...]

To be voted on by comic book retailers, and awarded at NYCC, here are the nominations for Diamond Comic Distributor's Best Practice Awards, under the category of Best Free Comic Book Day. Remember you've got to be in it to win it… and retailers who vote are up for $250 worth of free Diamond Select Toys in-stock merchandise[...]

Looks like retailers are going to have to order further in advance for certain items for Free Comic Book Day in 2017. And there are going to be more toys and statues available on that day (for a price) than ever before. Next week's Diamond Previews catalogue will include the following items. FCBD DC LIL BOMBSHELLS WONDER WOMAN 75TH[...]

Advice for publishers seeking to submit content and proposals for Free Comic Book Day went out last week, with a return deadline for October And there appeared to be one big change. The FCBD Committee recommends proposed comics have no more than one story with one back up, instead of anthology stories. You are still free to submit the[...]

It's become a mix of increasing awareness of the medium, the breadth of its form, creating an opportunity for stores to sell all their other products, launch a mega crossover or two from the big publishers and an opportunity for new publishers to launch themselves and maybe get a film deal. Well, Diamond Comic Distributors' Free[...]

Indeed, according to this year's small print, all retailers can start selling their Free Comic Book Day titles today without censure if they so wish. A complete set of all 50 comics sells for $40 But individually there are certainly favourites. The best performer so far on the aftermarket is Dark Horse's Legend Of Korra selling from up to $10, clearly the hit[...]

To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. The American Flagg series from Howard Chaykin was groundbreaking when it was published by[...]

Hear No Spoilers, Say No Spoilers, See No Spoilers. From this point on, there will be references to Marvel's Free Comic Book Day titles and a plot element from the Civil War movie Anything more you read from this point on, is your own responsibility… So, now we know where we stand Jim Rhodes, War Machine may[...]

To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. And for out last free comic from Dynamite we have Uncanny #2 by Andy[...]

Old and new readers should be excited about this Free Comic Book Day title…The Stuff of Legend, from Third World Studios, written by Mike Raicht and Brian Smith, with art by Charles Paul Wilson III, is back! After a long hiatus the creative team thanked loyal fans and welcomed new readers by beginning the reprint of their original Free[...]

While there are many titles to enjoy in BOOM! Studios 2016 Summer Blast, six to be exact, there was one in particular that I couldn't wait to read. Free Comic Book Day usually includes something Mouse Guard related, and this year you'll find a new tale in the Summer Blast. The story is entitled, "The Tale of Piper the Listener," and[...]

This morning I took the kids along to Free Comic Book Day A sweltering day in London, there were plenty of activities, signings and events through the day but we were there for the morning's events. The line at Orbital already stretched round the block when we arrived. With cosplayers and comic compatriots, I bumped into old[...]

To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. Now we have the second issue in Peter Milligan and Piotr Kowalski's series Terminal[...]

To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. Originally published by Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel, Jim Starlin's grand space adventure[...]

To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. Here we have the second issue of Joshua Hale Failkov and Matt Triano's series[...]

To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. Here we have the first issue of Jae Lee's Hellshock The book was originally[...]

The first Free Comic Book Day comic of 2016 to disappear from their stacks was the new Pink Panther comic from American Mythology Productions Kids and adults went mad for it. Thankfully my littlest one grabbed her copy! Look, he's dressed as Thor! We highlighted the comic here…. Gosh really is the place for kids to come today…. Eve[...]

I remember when there were only two stores in the whole of the UK who did Free Comic Book Day Now almost everyone does it. And Forbidden Planet in Glasgow at 7.40am, people were already lining up. pic.twitter.com/QZr9yijkfA — FPGlasgow (@FPGlasgow) May 7, 2016 And outside Orbital Comics in London right now, an hour before opening… There are some comics[...]

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day 2016. But if you can't quite wait and want free comic books now, and don't mind them digital, but do want them legal, here is how to go about it. As well as a bunch of previews and previous FCBD titles, Marvel has Marvel's The Avengers #1, Marvel's Avengers Alliance #1,[...]

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day and one of the offerings is the Valiant: 4001 A.D FCBD Special… say that three times fast The issue features the talents of writers Matt Kindt, Jody Houser, Jeff Lemire and Rafer Roberts And the art of Clayton Henry, Trevor Hairsine, David Lafuente, Francis Portela, Pere Perez, Mico Suayan[...]

I've talked about some other Free Comic Book Day titles for 2016 – such as DC Super Hero Girls, Valiant 4001 AD, Suicide Squad, Civil War II, Spectrum, Serenity, Archie Comics, Sonic The Hedgehog, Rom/Action Man and Avatarex… that's ten. There's fifty in total Well here are another 37… I'll catch up[ on the remaining three tomorrow,[...]

This year's Free Comic Book Day titles are covered in ads for the San Diego Comic Con streaming video service, Comic Con HQ with a free beta signup from Saturday running through this year's San Diego Comic Con It's a fantastic piece of branding and a very attractive offer Especially because, since it's Free Comic[...]

Jen King, Owner of Eisner nominated Space Cadets Collection Collection, tells us why you should show your local comic book store some love on Free Comic Book Day this Saturday. It seems to happen every year A customer comes in and wants to pick up 20 copies of one of the FCBD titles being offered[...]

Nathan Fillion is on the front cover of two titles for Free Comic Book Day this year Spectrum #0 published by Automatic Publishing and Serenity published by Dark Horse Comics. Spectrum is the comic of the show within the show, Con Man, and by PJ Haarsma, Alan Tuydyk and Sarah Stone A full size comic story,[...]

The Avatarex Free Comic Book Day giveaway this Saturday shows off a preview of Grant Morrison's new comic series for the publisher. But also we get to see something rarely glimpsed A few pages of Grant Morrison's script for the series. So we have page one, drawn by Jeevan J Kang. And then the script that describes it. Note[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpDc2V0Fv4UVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: A Comic Show Explains Free Comic Book Day 2016! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpDc2V0Fv4U)  Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop runs through the best free comic books of Free Comic Book Day 2016… Hey everyone! Want some FREE COMICS? Get to a comic shop on Saturday May 7th! In this video I explain[...]

Jetpack Comics of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA and Forbidden Planet of the UK aren't just satisfied with giving away the fifty free Free Comic Book Day titles Three of them will have their own unique covers.   A Spectrum #0 Exclusive featuring a cover by video game artist Kindra Haugen – the only limited edition cover for Spectrum #0 available on Free[...]