Every week, I will spotlight strange but ultimately endearing comic stories (basically, we’re talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of all the installments of this feature. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com if you have a suggestion for a future installment! Today is the 100th installment of [...]
On Tuesday, Tuesday, May 21 from 8:00 – 9:00 pm, join Houston Ballet for a free Dance Talk featuring former New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Bart Cook discussing Jerome Robbins’s comic masterpiece The Concert, and Roslyn Anderson about her work staging Ji?í Kylián’s signature work, Sinfonietta. Both The Concert and Sinfonietta will be featured on […]
This summer, let your imagination run free. Journey into an awe-inspiring world of action fantasy and visual wonder with popular French comics heroine Adèle Blanc-Sec as she leaps from the pages to the screen! On August 13, 2013, Shout!...Show More Summary
This week in PlayStation Home a new range of wizard clothing is available in Diagon Alley™, Home Tycoon is having a free test drive and new Home developer Evil Tree Studios is introducing comic book posters! There’s more below, and don’t forget to join the PlayStation Home Community on the PlayStation Forums.
Barnes & Noble Launches Enhanced NOOK ® for iPad ® and iPhone ® Apps Customers Can Now Access Their Favorite NOOK Comics ™ with Zoom View and Receive a Free DC Comics 2013 Superman Sampler with Download of Free NOOK for iOS App and New NOOK Account Registration NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Show More Summary
Every week, I will spotlight strange but ultimately endearing comic stories (basically, we’re talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of all the installments of this feature. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com if you have a suggestion for a future installment! Today we look at the introduction [...]
Tom Brevoort answers a question I’ve had since last weekend’s Free Comic Book Day issue: In what world could Avengers: Endless Wartime be called “Marvel’s First Original Graphic Novel,” considering the 1980s line of OGNS? Those are absolutely all great books, but none of them really fit the parameters of a Graphic Novel in the [...]
One of the majorly overlooked aspects of the Free Comic Book Day promotion is that many shops use it as an opportunity to raise money for charity. One shop in Laredo, Texas, raised money for the family of a young girl diagnosed with leukemia. Show More Summary
Ryan Haupt considers the concept of free, and in the process, accidentally outs himself as the Grinch of Comics: Then there’s Free Comic Book Day, which from what I can see on the internet seems to be a HUGE deal and I honestly can’t force myself to care. I get the impetus, it’s a good [...]
POW! BANG! TASER! HANDCUFFS. A man from Portland, Maine, interrupted one store's Free Comic Book Day celebration when he threw a Ghostbuster to the... Read more: Video, Dumb Crime, Adam Barnes, Adam Barnes Ghostbuster Assault, Adam Barnes Stormtrooper Assault, Adam Barnes Arrested, Stormtrooper Ghostbuster Assault, Adam Barnes Portland, Weird News News
Comic book and cosplay aficionados came out Saturday for Free Comic Book Day. That's keeping Austin weird in the best possible way. [ more › ]
Walt Disney passed on the chance to excite kids with a special edition of Iron Man for Free Comic Book Day on May 4. Each year, publishers submit issues to be distributed to anyone who wanders into a comics shop that day. Marvel's choice...Show More Summary
I’m in the Phoenix, Arizona area for the entire month of May, in part to prepare for my move there in a few months. I figured that Free Comic Book Day – which also fell on May the Fourth this year – was as good a time as any to begin exploring the geek community [...]
We’ve got more with David Giuntoli, star of NBC’s GRIMM, on what is the big reveal for season two and what we can expect in Season 3, plus Free Comic Book Day fun & profits, Image’s big sales and comics in general with another good month...Show More Summary
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Seen here celebrating not having to eat through a straw, the Stormtrooper and Ghostbuster attacked by 31-year old Adam Barnes dance outside Coast City Comics on Free Comic Book Day. The two were attacked at 2:30PM by a drunk Barnes,Show More Summary
CBR spoke with Scott Snyder and Jim Lee during a Free Comic Book Day signing about their upcoming title, "Superman Unchained," and Snyder and Greg Capullo's "Batman: Zero Year" origin story.
People flocked to local comic shops this past Saturday to get their hands on some free books, courtesy of Free Comic Book Day. Most shops limited the number of books you were allowed to take, and some people just couldn’t make it to the shop. So here are links to some of the free comics... Read More
The childlike joy of America's Free Comic Book Day became a violent drama of assault and police firing taser guns when two costumed characters were attacked by a 300-pound drunken monster outside a comics shop in Portland, Maine, on Saturday. Read more...
Check out what happened across the globe during Free Comic Book Day with CBR Live's photo coverage from stores and events in London, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney and more!