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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[...]

Do you remember when Corey Feldman worked in a comic book store? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I1zVlt1Vtg The actor is currently trying to raise

Free Comic Book Day will be here before we know it PreviewsWorld reminded us with this Thor photo… What comic shop are you going to for FCBD? Use #FCBD2016 and tag them to let them know you'll be there May 7th! pic.twitter.com/CyaQNXiRRD — PREVIEWSworld (@PREVIEWSworld) April 18, 2016 But out of all the titles, there are five in[...]

We've been looking at a couple of amazing Free Comic Book Days in London, but now it's time to stretch further afield This year The Comic Bug of Manhattan Beach and Culver City, California is stretching its Free Comic Book Day into three locations. The Culver City Teen Center next door to their Culver store will[...]

Shown off at the Diamond Retailer Breakfast ahead of C2E2 this morning, was cover art for the Dead No More storyline for The Amazing Spider-Man debuting in Marvel's Free Comic Book Day offering. And, yes, that looks like Spider-Man's Uncle Ben upfront and centre…. But is that Captain Stacy behind him? Looks like all sorts of folk[...]

Just like last year, Free Comic Book Day 2016 will have fifty titles to be given away on the first Saturday in May. Well, someone who didn't make the cut isn't stopping them. Ryan Browne, Mike Norton, Tim Seeley and Luke Smarto of Four Star Studios are making their own Free Comic Book Day title, and publishing[...]

We mentioned when they were announced that DC Comics may have made a mistake making the reissue of Suicide Squad #1 their Gold title for Free Comic Book Day That's the title which all participating stores need to order 25 copies of, and gets extra promotion And choosing this comic, even with the movie, rather[...]

Best Beware My Sting. Brian Michael Bendis and Jim Cheung will launch Civil War II With Marvel's Gold offering for Free Comic Book Day this year. While in the back, Mark Waid and Alan Davis will launch the new Wasp for the Marvel Universe. Are they friend or foe? How will their coming impact on the lives of[...]

As well as the fifty books for next year's Free Comic Book Day, Funko will be providing comic stores will special Free Comic Book Day figures from Funko's Dorbz line, exclusive to the promotion. Called Captain America; Civil War Unmasked, they will consist of a Steve Rogers and a Tony Stark figure, Retailers can order them in[...]

    Here are the remaining 35 Free Comic Book Day titles for 2016 – including the 2000AD edition with a Eric Powell Judge Dredd story that was previously reported as refused by the committee Looks like a little outrage went a long way.  Add to that Attack On Titan, One Punch Man, Stan Lee's The Unknowns,[...]

The official Free Comic Book Day T-shirts for 2016 are from Art Baltazar and Francesco Francavilla The first showing off Itty Bitty Hellboy and Aw Yeah Comics The second showing off a wide variety of comic genres, including science fiction, superheroes and horror. The T-Shirts aren't free though It's not Free T-Shirt Day after all,  Small to XXXL and women's V-neck sizes[...]

We mentioned that Dynamite Entertainment had a Bob's Burgers book as a Gold Book title for Free Comic Book Day, the titles that all retailers have to order to participate in the event. Well, they also have a silver title for Grumpy Cat – which has more leeway for ordering…   Here's the bumf. Next up, Grumpy Cat, the internet's[...]

We have no 2000AD… but we do have 4001AD… Valiant Entertainment is one of the Gold Sponsors of Free Comic Book Day next year for their first time And they will be using their offering to promote 2016's summer event 4001 AD, which launches in May. A four issue mini-series by Matt Kindt and Clayton Crain, 4001 AD[...]

On Sunday, the Facebook page for Free Comic Book Day posted the following, HOW'S YOUR COMIC BOOK GAME? Let's separate the purists from the n00bs and see how hardcore some of you so-called "comic fans" are. Name the character below Those who guess correctly get absolute bragging rights and our respect Those who guess incorrectly (or remain silent)[...]

Bleeding Cool has looked at publishers who feel they have been forced out of Free Comic Book Day by the falling maximum price allowed to charge retailers of 20 cents a comic (of which Diamond takes an estimated 5 cents). One Bleeding Cool reader, Brent Erwin who has been both a publisher and retailer during FCBD[...]

This morning, Bleeding Cool broke the story that 2000AD had been rejected from 2016's Free Comic Book Day despite having a lineup of new original material that included Eric Powell, Joelle Jones, Laura Allred and Mike Allred The story was soon confirmed. We then told you that ComixTribe felt they had to withdraw their original content[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOA-aLWGxtwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Free Comic Book Day 2015 & Beyond! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOA-aLWGxtw) From the store where Free Comic Book Day began, with Flying Colors owner Joe Field and friends… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOA-aLWGxtwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Free Comic Book Day 2015 & Beyond! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOA-aLWGxtw) From the store where Free Comic Book Day[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHM48oRe9QQ[/youtube] Randy Myers of Collectors Corner, of Maryland, writes, Free Comic Book Day at Collectors Corner this year was even smoother and more exciting than last year, with our first fan lining up at 8:00 PM on Thursday evening. By 1:00 AM Friday over 20+ People were waiting in line[...]

Diamond recently showed off their stats to retailers for Free Comic Book Day which took place at the beginning of the month And all the numbers were up $4 million in free publicity (up 35%), 1.4 million in attendance, 5.6 million comics given away (up 20%) in 2,340 different locations during Free Comic Book Day. But what[...]

Did anyone else get a bit of deja vu reading the All-New All-Different Avengers comic for Free Comic Book Day? Specifically the preview for Max Ride: First Flight. Based on the Maximum Ride novels by James Patterson, it adapted the first opening scene from the first novel.   Which is slightly peculiar because seven years previously in 2008, Yen[...]

Kraig Alexander sent Bleeding Cool a photo account of celebrating Free Comic Book Day in Toronto and the surrounding areas Thanks Kraig! He says: Retailers and fans alike celebrated FCBD in Toronto and its surrounding areas with great deals, guest comic creators, raffles and giveaways , and of course 50 different FREE COMIC BOOKS! The following images are[...]

Comic Shop The Core, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, sent in the following report and photogallery from their Free Comic Book Day event: Approximately 2500 fans showed up for FCBD at The CORE in Cedar Falls, Iowa on May 2nd! Thousands of comics were given away to excited fans! While waiting for comics, visitors were entertained with[...]

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool pointed out comics that were heating up on eBay, with some people paying up to $7 an issue for single copies. Well, it may be worth knowing that the following Free Comic Book Day titles are all still in stock at Diamond Comic Distributors… and available for the same price that retailers[...]

By Jemal Flores It was Free Comic Book Day this past Saturday May 2nd. at the Fourth World Comics and Toys store Batman writers Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV and Marguerite Bennett (A-Force,Maxride) were there to sign comics and answer fan questions The line For these three people was long, but moved along very fast. This year the[...]

Lots of steady traffic from customers arriving to a large selection of books for Free Comic Book Day as well as shoppers taking the opportunity to get sale prices today. Here are some shots from the event: And while I didn't get all these from Conquest, since I had them for review[...]

Back from Free Comic Book Day in London with the kids and some of their friends And lots of comics were bought (though I did have to move one child away from the Mercury Heat and towards the Spongebob Squarepants). London was out for free comics The line at Orbital snaked around the block from opening[...]

How many people would you be expecting to find hanging out outside a comic store at midnight in Arizona? [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X1BarzD1tA[/youtube] Lots… See the rest of out Free Comic Book Day coverage right here. How many people would you be expecting to find hanging out outside a comic store at midnight in Arizona? [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X1BarzD1tA[/youtube] Lots… See the rest of out Free Comic[...]