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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[...]

It was the clear winner of Free Comic Book Day Depsite thousands and thousands of copies being given away for free, it sells on eBay for up to $13 The Mouse Guard hardcover was a hit, with six short original stories promoting Archaia's books Every other publisher should have been so jealous looking at it. And[...]

He's just put up the pages from the New 52 Free Comic Book Day volume In which you get to see not only Jim Lee and Scott William's original art for the story – but also the patch job they had to do to change the Hal Jordan Green Lantern to a new unidentified black[...]

It may have been Free Comic Book Day a weekend ago But that doesn't mean everything was left to undulate in the breeze. Take this scene from the Marvel FCBD Ultron War #0.1. An exact reprint of Avengers #12.1 yes? Well, not exactly Here's the original. Looks like there was a little creative colouring going on before they[...]

What matters is that there is a smile on every fans face as they walk out the door. Free Comic Book Day is a Juggernaut and the whole world of Comic Book fans take part in it in some way or fashion It doesn't matter what time you open or how many comics they get its[...]

So it's now the fifth installment of Dealing Cool, and it's time that the retailer feedback feature begins to show how the market can shift and flow as the months progress.  How are comic shops changing?  What's new and exciting?  Today, we're proud to revisit Steve Anderson of Third Eye Comics to hear his take[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQN7wI9SxZ4&[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EaEr_qDa0M[/youtube] Here's a couple of documentary films for Free Comic Book Day 2012 at Collectors Corner, of Baltimore, Maryland. Unscripted interviews with Staff and volunteers include Owner Randy Myers & Manager David Crispino along with staff, volunteers, customers & cosplayers.      Meyers says; We had planned to cut the ribbon and OPEN the doors at 9:00 AM Saturday, May[...]

It cannot have escaped many people's notice that The Walking Dead is a popular comic book. So popular that retailers cannot keep up with its increase in

This is, naturally, for Third Eye Comics. The store also reports to Bleeding Cool on its Free Comic Book Day, with 2000 in their Annapolis store and how they easily went through a thousand copies of Finding Gossamyr And that Publisher Th3rd World Studios is planning on micro-distributed variant covers of that comic for specific stores[...]

From the Free Comic Book Day DC Comic, The New 52, the Black Room… but what's in it? Here's ten to start you off Clicky for biggy. 1 The Spear Of Destiny 2 Eclipso's Black Diamond 3 A Demon Knights dragon 4 The Ark Of The Covenant 5 The Green Bell of Uthool 6 Etrigan's armour 7 The Haunted Tank 8 The Viking[...]

For the Buffy/Aliens/Alabaster Wolves/The Guild comic, click here, and sign up to Dark Horse digital if you haven't yet. Available until the end of May.

So we've all read the DC New 52 issue now right? Right? After all, Free Comic Book Day was yesterday, so you know It's time to start asking exactly who the new wizards of the DC Universe , the creators of Shazam, and the damners of the Trinity Of Evil, are? Um… well See, this is[...]

It has sold for up to $13 with free shipping, but there are currently Buy It Nows available around the $9 mark. The importance of the DC New 52 Free Comic Book Day volume to upcoming continuity also seems to have caught some on the hop, with copies selling for up to $6. Transformers has bids up[...]

MouseWatch: David Petersen reads last year's Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day story [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/34828777[/vimeo] ChicagoWatch: Neil Gaiman writes; I'm writing a speech I will be delivering in Chicago next week, with the working title of "What the [very bad swearword] is a Children's Book anyway?" It's about, well, what Children's fiction is, something the book I'm writing right[...]

Selling for over $4000, here is the original art for Jim Lee's Free Comic Book Day T-Shirt design; The T-shirts of course… were free! And here's how they look, on.       Selling for over $4000, here is the original art for Jim Lee's Free Comic Book Day T-Shirt design; The T-shirts of course… were free! And here's how[...]

Here's a few shots, via Twitter, of how Free Comic Book Day has been going down around the world… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */   Here's a few shots, via Twitter, of how Free Comic Book Day has been going[...]