FCBD -- Free Comic Book Day May 2, 2009

Make sure you get out and support literacy and your local store. Post what ever your story had happening and what happened when you got there, here. I will be taking pictures at my store and posting my sketches I will hopefully getting.

I have to work but my store is saving a Blackest Night, Aliens, and Avengers for me

I'm goin to my shop at 10 am to get my copy of blackest night and will most likely read it in the store. Then I will be goin to a wine and food tasting in boston. This is goin to be fun.

My local shop owner moved his shop to Maine. He still gets me my books but it sucks not having a shop to go to. I can go to one of the big ones in Manhattan. Midtown Comics isn't far but the store has such a corporate feel to it. I'll check it out and see how it is on Saturday.

What usually goes on during FCBD besides the free comics?

stores will have artist there to sign stuff and do sketchs.

I'm planning on heading over to MD. Jo Chen is going to be there. There is also going to be a ton of other things happening according to the store owner.

I didnt even think to ask my store who was goin to be there.

Deadpool6, what part of MD?

I will be at Captain Blue Comics in Newark, DE here is their creator line up...

• Franco (Free Comic Book Day title: DC Kids Mega Sampler, Tiny Titans, Patrick the Wolf Boy, Weirdsville)

• Neil Vokes (Superman, Tarzan, Spider-Man)

• Scott Neely (Scooby-Doo, Cartoon Network)

• Jamar Nicholas (Radiskull & Devil Doll, Jamar Chronicles, Detective Boogaloo Hip-Hop Cop)

• Buz Hasson & Ken Haeser (Living Corpse)

• Th3rdworld Studios (Free Comic Book Day title: The Stuff of Legend)

http://www.collectorscornermd.com/
6 lines under the Thing's face, click the link and all is explained.
Not too familiar with the area, I'm in NJ.

Might try and check it out if the wife lets me and I have the time. My comic book store is doing all their stuff till 5 but if I can get in and get my sketches then I would love to hit another store with even more people to get sketches from.

You would think that living in NYC where the big 2 have their HQ that the big shops would do something big for FCBD. One store is going to have Joe Stanton so I might go there. The other big store (Midtown Comics) hasn't announced anything.

As stated earlier, I'm doing a convention in Houston this weekend, getting out to meet the unwashed masses. Cool thing is with this being FCBD and the opening weekend of Wolverine, is that this is at a mall, so we'll be getting not just convention goers, but regular mall traffic, so I'll be promoting the comic book industry to everyone who walks by my table.

Oh, and I shaved down to some Wolverine muttonchops, just to scare the locals.

and when you walk out in your little ballerina outfit and tutu, you are really going to scare them aren't you.

So I get to the comic book store and my stores owner tells me Free comics around the side and Franco is here with no line... Get to Franco, one person ahead of me then I get this....



Walk outside with the wife and kids. The girls are tired, so they leave with mom, I keep the boy and go back in. Get in line for Neil Vokes and get this awesome Classic Style looking Punisher....



Then the boy gets antsy, the wife returns, snag some pics of the boy with Darth Vader, Imperial Pilot, Stormtrooper, and the one and only Spidey. Then get these two from Rich Faber and Jamar Nichols, respectfully.





Rich kept apologizing since he really didn't know what to do with him but I think it came out pretty decent. Looks like Frank just got kicked in the balls. LOL... Great day and my boy had a blast.

Oh yeah and while in line for Neil Vokes.... Scott Neely... the one now infamous for my



did this for Brenden, my son.

IM - sounds like you and the family had a good day.

The "big" shop in my area gave out all the free books pretty quickly. I got there in time to snag just 4, Blackest Night, Avengers, Aliens, and Vampirella. No signings!