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Hannah Blumenreich's Official Free Comic Book Day 2018 Poster

Hannah Blumenreich came to prominence with her Peter Parker fan comics that led her being hired officially by Marvel Comics for Spider-Man and Spider-Gwen, as well as appearing in the Regular Show comic.

She is now providing the artwork for 2018's Free Comic Book Day Commemorative Artist poster:

Hannah Blumenreich's Official Free Comic Book Day 2018 Poster

Free Comic Book Day, taking place on the first Saturday of May, is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores.

In 2001, retailer Joe Field was writing columns for an industry magazine, and saw how successful feature films based on comic book franchises were providing the comic book industry with a positive cultural and financial turnaround from the speculator bust of the late 1990s. Field proposed Free Comic Book Day in one of his columns, and received a positive reaction to it. Then-Image Comics publisher Jim Valentino suggested having the first Free Comic Book Day on the same weekend as the opening of the 2002 Spider-Man feature film, in order to take advantage of the film's heavy promotion and related press about the comic book medium, and thus the first event was held May 4th, 2002, one day after the film's opening.

On Free Comic Book Day, participating comic book store retailers give away specially printed copies of free comic books, and some offer special deals and creator signings to those visiting their establishments. However, retailers do not receive the issues for free; they pay 12–50 cents per copy for the comics they give away during the event. In addition to comic books, some stores also give away — and sell — other merchandise, such as mini posters and other movie tie-in memorabilia.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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