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By: Free Comic Book Day Reactions Part 2 » Comics Worth Reading

Free Comic Book Day Reactions Part 2 » Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:06:38 +0000

[...] from part one, my day concluded with a stop at Richmond Comix. There, I got to browse most everything else I was [...]

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Blog@Newsarama » Free Comic Book Day will not die! — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:01:20 +0000

[...] Brian Hibbs and our own Carla Hoffman, who also wants you to know she’s seen Iron Man. Both Johanna and Atomic Romance hit multiple stores. Creators reporting on their Saturday include Evan Dorkin, [...]

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Free Comic Book Day Links & Limits » Comics Worth Reading — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:32:37 +0000

[...] planning to get back to part 2 of my Free Comic Book Day experience, but deadlines are flying hot and heavy this week. In the meantime, check out this excellent read. [...]

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:44:17 +0000

Thanks for joining in, Faith! One local retailer had a story that explained the limit: one of his first customers started grabbing everything in sight and had to be diligently reminded that there was a limit. He sees her every year, only on that day. That kind of abuse is why people have to set limits. (And both of the good stores I went to were willing to bend the limits if people were truly interested in certain books.) PS Love your sketch!

By: Faith

Faith — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:22:39 +0000

I’ve been roaming around the ‘net reading people’s experiences on FCBD, and they all sound terribly … civilized! I participated in one that was absolute madness (but in a good way), which I have pictures of (and a report; I was an artist at the event) here: http://smuu.livejournal.com/606002.html
I’ve been sort of surprised to read stores had such a limit on the number of comics you could take (only three?), but I guess it’s to be expected…

PS. Long time reader, first time poster. Love the blog.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:39:37 +0000

Henrico County Public Libraries have participated for three years now, getting Comics from a local store and promo it with the area teens helping. I think we had 9 branches participating. A great success, getting better every year!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:15:14 +0000

I can’t say I totally disagree with you on your reaction to the EC sampler. I’ve bought almost all of the recent archive releases and have enjoyed them for the most part but they are best consumed one-story-at-a-time, as is the case with most golden age stuff. Too much and it just makes my head explode.

I grew up hearing my dad talk about how EC comics were the best ever and was the happy recipient, at Christmas a few years ago, of his EC Fan-Addict Club membership certificate that he’d been saving since about 1953.

I think you’d have to agree that, while the stories have their ups and downs and are generally pretty quaint by today’s standards, they were on the cutting edge at the time. AND – the art is head-and-shoulders above the level of what other publishers, as a whole, were doing at the time. Wally Wood and John Severin were my dad’s favorites and are two of mine as well.