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How to Make a major Impact on FREE Comic Book Day. « COMIC PRIVY — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:19:01 +0000

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By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:52:02 +0000

You are such a good representative for the holiday, Joe! Hearing you talk about it always amps me up for the day and its potential. Thank you for the correction.

By: Joe Field

Joe Field — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:42:24 +0000

Remember the (really) old Saturday Night Live TV ad parody “Is it a floor wax? Or it is a dessert topping? It’s both!”

Free Comic Book Day is FOR YOU! For new readers, for returning readers and for long-time fans. That’s what I originally proposed 11 years ago and that is still the goal each and every year.

To say that the event is “Not For You” is wildly inaccurate. Free Comic Book Day — with more than one million people visiting stores in 2011, is the comics’ holiday for everyone!

In less than three weeks, with more than 3.5 million comics available to be given away, 2012 looks to be even bigger than last year.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:10:22 +0000

Yeah that’s good of L&C, I just picked it because it was the one every year I always wanted but never saw. Yet while I haven’t shopped at a retailer as a pull customer in nearly a decade, I’m still not the target audience for FCBD.

I think FCBD will eventually (if it isn’t already) be something different from its origin. Given that there are only 2000 (less if you believe Mark Waid) actual comic stores left with Diamond accounts.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:29:11 +0000

Love and Capes would make the FCBD issues available for order as standard issues, though, so anyone who wanted them could get them.

Making FCBD issues available digitally is a great idea for publishers, but it again gets away from the point of the event, which is to drive customers to stores.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:19:41 +0000

Yeah I never really got the whole “this is supposed to be for civilian readers, but we’ll put new stories in them that the regular customer will want too.”

That’s not just DC though, Marvel, Dark Horse, heck even small press and indy titles do this. (Love & Capes for instance) It just never made a lick of sense to me.

None of the retailers in my area participated much in it, they just had no interest or said they didn’t any return out of it.

I hope with digital being so big, that the publishers eventually put them on there as the free downloads have become sort of scarce on the aps lately.