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Why, it's an Amanda Conner-designed Free Comic Book Day tote bag Perfect for trailing around comic stores and building the full set… Not that you'd do that of course. Would you? Check your store for availability… Why, it's an Amanda Conner-designed Free Comic Book Day tote bag Perfect for trailing around comic stores and building the full set… Not[...]

In all the fuss about the new Free Comic Book Day Batman, there was one thing that got overlooked. I'm not going to repeat the big rumour that we ran about the new Batman here Or the one about the new status quo for Superman. But the new Batsuit is revealed to have been built by one[...]

We are getting close to Free Comic Book Day and they've gotten another nice celebrity endorsement for the event This time it's Robin Lord Taylor who plays Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin on the Fox series Gotham. The first celebrity ad for the even was done by Mark Hamill. For more on Free Comic Book Day, click[...]

This year, Free Comic Book Day will include a joint comic from publishers, Retrofit Comics, Peow! Studio, Oily Comics, Uncivilized Books, Study Group Comics, and Big Planet Comics The comic book is titled Free 2015 and is published by Retrofit Comics/Big Planet Comics. Free 2015 will feature a color cover by Chuck Forsman and 40 pages[...]

So it makes perfect sense that the folks behind Free Comic Book Day would go to him to help promote the upcoming event. Hamill does a wonderful job of promoting Free Comic Book Day and reminding people that advantages of going to a brick & mortar stores and being part of the comic book community[...]

Valiant Entertainment has just wrapped their ComicsPRO breakfast presentation, kicking off the retailer meet-and-greet day in Portland with several big

Received wisdom seems to have been received ignorance. The consensus was that this year's Free Comic Book Day numbers would be a little down, as the number of titles available was cut down to fifty, all-ages titles were also reduced as a proportion of the comics offered and there was less of a diversity of tastes[...]

Well now isn't that nice? Marvel Comics have announced that they will be launching their Free Comic Book Day titles in a Spanish compilation issue to accompany the English release on May 2nd And with an exclusive cover by Nick Bradshaw. Free Comic Book Day aims at finding new readers and hooking them on the comic book form[...]

With a Free Comic Book Day #0 and, as this image proves… …returning in June Here is a little preview of that FCBD title… and an idea of what is to come… Tales Of Honor, written by Top Cow publisher Matt Hawkins, came out as a comic book last year, drawn by[...]

Comics Festival has been shoring up its creative list for Free Comic Book Day Promoting the Toronoto Comic Art Festival, the anthology features strips from the following folk. Mariko Tamaki (Skim, This One Summer) & Gillian Goerz Kate Beaton (Hark A Vagrant) Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang (In Real Life) Svetlana Chmakova (Witch & Wizard manga,[...]

This morning, we learned that DC's Gold Free Comic Book Day title would be called Divergence, and would preview upcoming comics including Justice League, Superman and Well now we know the second Silver Books title as well… and it's a Teen Titans Go/Scooby Doo Team Up, with two of DC's successful all ages titles. DC Entertainment's all-ages FCBD[...]

DC's Gold Book offering for Free Comic Book Day will be Divergence, playing off the title of Convergence. Previewing the launch of the Darkseid War, hence the cover, with Justice League by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok, the new Batman arc by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo and the already-mentioned Superman by Gene Luen Yang and John Romita[...]

There are fewer Free Comic Book Day titles on offer this year than last And there are even fewer all-ages comics Ostensibly aimed at getting kids into comic stores by giving them free stuff to whet their appetite That has changed of late, with a number of mature readers titles being allowed into the fold, as[...]

Marvel's Free Comic Book Day title in March had been solicited as FCBD Secret Wars #1 Even though an actual Secret Wars #1 is shipping in May. It will now be called Secret Wars #0 – which indicates a whole different kind of comic book An FCBD #1 might indicate a preview of sorts, a sneek peek at[...]

That's what being bought out by a Diamond Premier Publisher does for you. IDW's acquisition of Top Shelf Comix means that they will be printing their Free Comic Book Day titles together,and will lower the cost price for retailers for each issue given away in comic book stores. Which means Top Shelf's Motorcycle Samurai book will be dropping[...]

Marvel's Free Comic Book Day entry Secret Wars #0 will be the starting point for Secret Wars, a "bit of a primer" Tom Brevoort said Also, Marvel will be including Avengers/Attack on Titan comic that was previously only published in Japan Below is the cover of Secret Wars #0 sandwiched in between Tom Breevort and[...]

DC Comics are letting comic stores create customised versions of their Free Comic Book Day Gold level comic book, giving us a first tease of what's in it, featuring "pivotal new stories starring Superman, Batman and the Justice League." All retailers have to do to get featured in the front cover, in much the way as they[...]

To qualify as a Free Comic Book Day Participating store, you must operate a storefront business and order a 25 each minimum of the Gold books. Alone that will cost a retailer a minimum of $81.75 plus shipping, for three hundred comics That's the bare minimum, most retailers will order thousands, tens of thousands of comics and spend the equivalent. In[...]

This is what you call a Rich Twitch? Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported concerns from some retailers that the Doctor Who Free Comic Book Day title offered by Titan Comics had been listed at a net cost to retailers of 39 cents each, well above the usual 25 cents cost. Well, today retailers will be told by Diamond told that[...]

Basically, people stopping buying comics or dying. For next year's Free Comic Book Day, it is getting a second title, Savage Dragon: Legacy, starring the current lead of Savage Dragon, his son Malcolm Dragon It might be a good way to reintroduce people to this Image Comics stalwart with this new spinoff series. As Image's Gold level book[...]

Earlier this morning, Bleeding Cool ran all fifty names of next year's Free Comic Book Day titles Well, they have now announced them officially, with visuals and text to match… so here we go. And, yes, last year's 50 Silver-level titles have been cut back to 38… GOLD BOOKS Dark Circle – Archie Comics Duane Swierczynski (W), Mark Waid (W), Dean Haspiel[...]

Here are all fifty Free Comic Book Day titles for 2015, named and with credits You can work out who publishes what, and what it means for yourself. But a few heads up… is that a new relaunched Avengers #1 from Marvel? Is that the Neil Gaiman Lady Justice? Jason Pearson on Ice Bayou Blackout, Norm[...]

It appears that, despite cutting the overall number of Free Comic Book Day titles for 2015, there are still twelve Gold books available for retailers to order, so the cuts will impact on everyone else. But here are the twelve Gold Books that every retailer who wants to officially participate in Free Comic Book Day in[...]

This is the design for the official T-shirt for Free Comic Book Day 2015, featuring a variety of people reading comics, race, gender and alien orientation By Amanda Conner, this is how it looks on a shirt… I wonder if the shirt is going to be a little bit smaller this year than some were[...]

Free Comic Book Day has reduced its offering to fifty titles, back in 2012 levels, rather than the sixty-plus titles of recent years, due to what one FCBD committee member dubbed "the locusts." This year, Free Comic Book Day ischeduled for Saturday May 2nd, 2015. Last year a record of 4.7 million copies of comics were given[...]

Last week Bleeding Cool ran the scoop that the number of titles being offered to retailers on Free Comic Book Day would be slashed back to fifty – and that there were complaints from publishers expecting to use FCBD to launch and promote upcoming comics into the direct marketplace. One retailer on the FCBD advisory board had[...]

Last year, there were over seventy Free Comic Book Day titles available for stores to order and distribute Some seemed to feel that was too many, with less focus and too much of a burden on retailers who felt forced to carry the entire range This year, that is being slashed back to fifty titles. Publishers expecting[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLKerjcMyw[/youtube] Randy Myers of Collectors Corner returns to Bleeding Cool with a look at his documentary for Free Comic Book Day 2014. Free Comic Book Day at Collectors Corner this year was even smoother and more exciting than last year, with our first fan David  lining up at 4pm on Thursday afternoon.By 1pm over fifty plus  people were[...]

The FCBD 2014 Mouse Guard 56 page hardcover from Archaia was allocated, as you may have noticed. eBay certainly has, its a twelve dollar book. But now,

Tucked in the back of the Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day volume from Archaia, and without a mention on the cover, was a new Farscape comic written and drawn by Ramon K Perez, who also adapted Jim Henson's Tale Of Sand for Archaia. Currently selling on eBay for $10, could this give it a fillip?     [...]