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Looks like retailers will be getting nice new stickers for Free Comic Book Day this year, featuring a certain Bartman Well, it is the seventy-fifth anniversary of Batman in 2014, I expect we'll be getting lots of that kind of thing… Skottie Young has designed the T-shirt for Free Comic Book Day with a non-company specific[...]

Now we get the Silver books, comics that will be free from participating comic stores on Free Comic Book Day, Unlike the Gold books, these will be specifically chosen by individual stores to give away, and not all stores will have all the books. I'd like to give a shout out first though to the Bleeding[...]

Free Comic Book Day is on 3rd May, 2014 Lots of comics, available free from your local comic book store, a mix of reprints and new material, all with the intention of grabbing new eyes to the medium, and teasing upcoming comics for old hands. It's only 142 days folks! Get with it! First up, the Gold[...]

Marvel announced on CBR today that there will be a second Free Comic Book Day release in 2014 To go with the already announced Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel and Venom story by Brian Michael Bendis and Nick Bradshaw… there will be a Rocket Raccoon book by Joe Caramagna and Adam Archer. The book is to[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors have measured that Free Comic Book Day 2013 generated over $2,200,000 of free publicity, via news and feature coverage across media. That included USA Today, CNN, Fox News, NPR, Wired, AP… and of course Bleeding Cool. Diamond measured 63,000 tweets for FCBD, getting the top two USA trending slots for the day And that[...]

Today, Top Cow give the first issue of their Aphrodite XI away for Free Comic Book Day. And it's a beaut! Digital/painted/heavy detail work, the kind of comic that Anomaly/Alex Ross fans should really enjoy. But what comes next? Well, with the second issue a month away, here's a look at all their double spread pages from[...]

There's a new comic store opening today in Yonkers, New York, on 887A Yonkers Avenue. It's called The Spider's Web, and I think it might possibly sell

Today, as part of the Boom Free Comic Book Day offering, comic shops all over will have a preview of Regular Show #1 in the Kaboom Supper Special giveaway. The actual Regular Show series has been delayed however, till later in the month. Apart from in Durham, North Carolina, where Ultimate Comics has managed to get their[...]

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 us know how it goes at your local comic book store! Looks like Free Comic Book Day has begun… Jesse James' Comics started theirs at one minute[...]

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 flipbook which is all lots of fun, but it's the Killjoys that will grab the eyeballs. Gerard Way has written this comic with Shaun Simon, with Becky Cloonan on art, as an[...]

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 Comix Kids Club, with Owly, Korgi, Jonny Boo, Upside Down (above), Pirate Penguins Vs Ninja Chicken and more All new stories, seen for the first time here Oh and a[...]

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

Bishop, though wash tones were added later, Squirrels will be given away as part of Free Comic Book Day at Toronto's Stadium Comics during the morning of Free Comic Book Day and Comic Book Lounge in the afternoon.   Created as a 12 Hour Comic by D.A Bishop, though wash tones were added later, Squirrels will[...]

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, with James Robinson as their big name midday star. David Finch and Jay Faberer are going to signing at  Gotham Central in Mississauga, Ontario on the day. Legend Comics & Coffee of[...]

More big signings for Free Comic Book Day on May the fourth 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[...]

May The Fourth, Free Comic Book Day, marches on But where can you go for even more than free comics? Jim Lee and Scott Snyder will be signing at Midtown Comics Downtown in Manhattan on Free Comic Book Day, May the 4th, as are Nate Crosby and Chris Eliopolis of Archaia's Cow Boy They will have[...]

In France, the comics market neatly splits into BD (bande dessinne), the majority of French/Belgian comics, manga and "comics", translated US and English

Free Comic Book Day is coming And people are getting prepared Such as Coliseum Of Comics of Orlando, Florida with names such as George Perez on hand for signing and sketching 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[...]

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 4,600,000 free comic books available to give away on Free Comic Book Day. May the 4th is also the day after Iron Man 3 comes out in the USA,[...]

The successfully Kickstarter-funded Molly Danger from Jamal Igle is approaching completion, with the firstv sign in print, the Molly Danger FCBD title.

Let's see the CBR and Newsarama find a way not to mention that Bleeding Cool Magazine exists now! Yup, there's a Bleeding Cool Magazine Free Comic Book Day edition Obviously it won't be as big as the usual edition But it will be free What will be in it? Well an easy guide to newcomers to[...]

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

For Free Comic Book Day 2013, that is, its twelfth year. So yes, there's a Star Wars comic There's also a mystery Superman comic, a mystery Marvel comic, The Walking Dead and more Fifty-three of them this year But here are the Gold titles, twelve this year, available to all retailers Including Ape finally bring out[...]

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 now. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EI5D4HFbIw[/youtube] From Joe Field, the man who invented Free Comic Book Day from his store Four Color Comics, telling us how the whole thing came[...]

This separates it from the Free Comic Book Day tradition where all the comics are intended to be free. The website halloweencomicfest.com will push the promotion as well as individual comic shop events Stores can also be found with comicshoplocator.com/Halloween, though both addresses are not yet live. A week[...]

For the past few years, Diamond have been distributing mini-comics to comics stores in October to be given away in comic shops for Hallowe'en. But last year at New York Comic Con, they announced they were going to be upping it for 2012, making more of a Free Comic Book Day-style occasion. So this time, as well[...]

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 Day comic Of course there are plenty of those. But what most people don't know is that the widely distributed version of that comic is actually the second print[...]