free comic book day Archives

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[...]

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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[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsrGSj9XdQ It is an impressive volume for no money...

I'll be going to Orbital Comics, Forbidden Planet and Gosh Comics for their kids workshop with my eldest daughter Eve and some of her school friends for Free Comic Book Day… but where will you be going? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pHAG2ClVKU#![/youtube] PressWatch: Hundreds of newspapers dive in to give more and more and more and more coverage to Free Comic[...]

Thank you to Diamond Comics for sending me all these Free Comic Book Day comics in advance I now no longer need to take my children to Free Comic Book Day tomorrow But I will So what do we have? And can I mark them out of ten for desirability, newness, content and general appeal?[...]

We suggested last week that we were about to get a Buffy Vs Aliens story from Dark Horse for Free Comic Book Day 2012 An in continuity encounter between Buffy The Vampire Slayer and the xenomorphs. Here's one panel from tomorrow's free Buffy comic… we've been asked not to show any more…   We suggested last week[...]

This year's Image Comics Free Comic Book Day volume celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the publisher And in doing so, previews a bunch of all new comic books. It's a bold, confident statement that seems intended to say as much about the company as the comics it previews We have G-Man with Chris Giarrusso… Guarding The Globe[...]

In this weekend's Valiant Free Comic Book Day offering there are plenty of teases as to what is to come in the Valiant Universe. But two pieces stand out rather First there's Lee Bermejo's rendition of Eternal Warrior, another previous Valiant character, to be published later this year Though these pieces are just pin-ups/costume designs from[...]

Dynamite's Free Comic Book Day offering this year is Dinosaurs Vs Aliens, a preview of the upcoming graphic novel by Barry Sonnenfeld, Grant Morison and Mukesh Singh Not only do we see art and sketches, but we also get script and background behind the series creation Which tells so much more about what we'll be[...]

Comic books pre-ordered and set aside for regular customers, to avoid the Wednesday morning rush. This will launch on Free Comic Book Day this Saturday Attendees who pick up free comics from their local Hastings will get a coupon for 25% off their first pullbox order, if they pre-order three or more comics. Well, nationwide-ish Mostly[...]

We're continuing to highlight Free Comic Book Day retailers going above and beyond. Stadium Comics of Ontario, Canada are running signings and sketching from Marcus To, Kalman Andrasofszky, Fred Kennedy, Adam Gorham, Shaun Hatton, Vince Sunico, George Todorovski and Chris Hatzopoulos, Cris De Lara, Paris Alleyne, Chris Leung, Luca Baldassarra, David Bishop, Norm Antonio and Daniel[...]

FreeComicBookDayWatch: Every comic shop across the country seems to be getting loads and loads of press right now for Free Comic Book Day 2012 calling it "Geek Christmas". LemmingWatch: When rap samples Lemmings, from Akira The Don, from Unkillable Thunder Christ. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wCVnUnWnAc[/youtube] FranceWatch: BD Comics Passion is the L'Institut Francais in London's second comics festival with Comica[...]

Looking at stores going above and beyond for Free Comic Book Day 2012? Here are a couple more… This year Earthworld Comics of Albany, New York, will be working with Books For Troops by collecting donations from fans to send to soldiers in Afghanistan They have been collecting donations all April long and have been handing[...]

More on that to come. Weirdly, this also gives the book the feel of Marvel's Free Comic Book Day offering, reprinting Avengers #12.1 as Age Of Ultron #0.1, and showing an upcoming future… Consider these tastes Teases There's so much more inside Oh, and a sneak peek look at a bunch of new titles as well! This is[...]

We've been looking at comic stores that, this weekend, will go above and beyond just giving out free comics on Free Comic Book Day Here are four more contenders. Ultimate Comics of Durham, North Carolina has guests Chris Burnham, Janet Lee, Brian Clevinger, Tommy Lee Edwards, Joe Keating, Andre Szymanowicz and Richard Case signing and sketching[...]

The gay-themed Quatrefoil Library of St Paul, Minnesota has spent the year cataloging its comic book singles, and to promote the collection, will be giving away their own free gay-themed comic this Saturday on Free Comic Book Day… or rather, since they have no official affiliation to the event, Free Comic Book Gay. Contributors include James[...]

We continue to look at comic stores going above and beyond for Free Comic Book Day next Saturday Well, Rebekah Isaacs, Jim Fern, Nelson Ortega, Joe Kuzma, Sebastian Piccione and Neil Jorge will be signing and sketching on Free Comic Book Day at Famous Faces & Funnies in West Melbourne, Florida, giving away ten free[...]

And they're extending Free Comic Book Day festivities over four days… and into the night. On Thursday May 3rd the store will sponsor the world's largest Taco Tour with superhero guides to helppeople find ove thirty local restaurants serving $2 tacos all night, followed by a party and a midnight screening of The Avengers, for which Double Midnight[...]

This year, I'll be going to Free Comic Book Day with my kids as always But not just my kids Their friends too On Saturday morning, we'll be getting the bus, then two tube trains into Central London with a gaggle of young girls to raid the comic shops of London like they are giving[...]

Aliens Vs Predator, Robocop Vs Terminator… But it appears that for Free Comic Book Day a week from tomorrow, there are doing something very special. The cover is a clue. I thought it was just a play on words, an intriguing title, Buffy vs Vampires in Space or something Could it actually be something  a lot more literal? Buffy Vs Aliens[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4Od9A2Nto[/youtube] Mike Wellman, the manager of The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, California, takes us through all the Free Comic Book Day titles for 2012 Well, most of them Even the ones he hasn't actually heard of. Like the Moomins The Moomins for goodness sake[...]

Bleeding Cool continues to celebrate comic book stires that are going above and beyond for Free Comic Book Day in 2012, this May the 5th. Collectors' Corner in Baltimore, Maryland, will run FCBD 9am until 9pm.Although you may want to be there earlier. The first twenty-five in line will get a Free Movie Pass to see AVENGERS[...]

Every year Jetpack Comics hosts a Free Comic Book Day Festival, across Rochester in New Hampshire Thousands attend what has to be one of the largest Free Comic Book Day events in the country. The event starts in Jetpack Comics at 10am but then extends across the town with many other businesses giving away comic books[...]

California's Collector's Paradise has two stores involved heavily with Free Comic Book Day this May the 5th, one in Padadena, the other in Canoga Park. Signing talent includes Ed Brubaker, Steven Niles, Josh Fialkov, Jim McCann, Kyle Higgins, Rodin Esquejo, Sonia Oback, Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko, Cbisy and Shane Houghton and Matt Whitlock. Theor Free Comic[...]