Meet Koh and Yurie. They're a happily married young Japanese couple who moved from Tokyo to San Francisco a year ago due to a job transfer. In early September, while on a business trip back home, Koh bought a new game cartridge for his Nintendo DS. It was mostly out of curiosity — the Japanese... More.
Cat Ladies is a one-hour long documentary about women who are living examples of the "crazy cat lady" stereotype. It was directed by Christie Callan-Jones, and just showed at the San Francisco documentary film festival, which ends tomorrow. ... More.
Writer Jeroen van Bergeijk lives in The Netherlands but is spending some time in Australia. He's posting his photos and observations on his blog. Today he came across a bike retrofitted with a small one-banger engine.
Saw this awesome - or I should say grouse - looking bicycle today when I went ... More.
John Gallone says: "Wanted to keep you informed as to what's afoot in the British Columbia mysterious foot finds. A new appendage was found in Richmond, near Vancouver B.C.,Tuesday October 20, this brings to seven the number of 'Mystery Feet' found so far."
The first severed foot, discovered in... More.
(Two Ravines. 1934. Watercolor on paper.)
Doug Harvey of the LA Weekly writes about a Charles Burchfield exhibit at the Hammer Museum in Pasadena, CA called Heat Waves in a Swamp.
Between 1916 and 1918 he produced hundreds of watercolors -- half his lifelong output -- each one teeming with symb... More.
Eyal sez, "The Saturday, (May 2nd 2009)is 'Free Comic Book Day' all over the world. Here is the scoop, you go into any participating comic book store (and there are a lot of them) on Saturday and you get to choose a free comic from over 30 comics. That's it. No catch. As a 40 year old self professed comic geek and a dad of 3 boys who is always looking for ways to get them to read more. The first Saturday in May is a great way to combine both activities. I am in no way affiliated to this promotion or its sponsors. I just feel it's a shame more people don't know about this great day. Did I mention that the comics are free?"
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God, the Wolverine movie looks so awesome. I hope it lives up to the hype! I'm excited to see it, none-the-less! :]
Don't forget a lot of libraries get in on the act as well. My girlfriend is a teen librarian here on Long Island and she's participated for the past three years, teaming up with a local comic shop and providing programming and activities for the entire day.
I'm working at Challengers Comics in Chicago for FCBD. We're having Erik Larsen, creator of Savage Dragon come in for a signing that day. [We wanted Mr. Larsen because Savage Dragon is a Chicago cop, naturally.] We are super stoked! We will be wearing homemade head fins!
Do I read this right that there are no participating stores in Canada?
Nevermind, for stores in Canada, put a postal code without spaces in the ZIP code box rather than looking internationally.
These fade-to-black movie trailer cuts must be stopped.
Heading to Downtown Comics in Indianapolis for my free comics...check em out if you're in Indy! downtowncomics.com
Go ahead kid, take it. The first one's free.
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Canadian comic book stores participate as well. I'm in Ottawa and get free comic books every year from The Comic Book Shoppe and Silver Snail (a franchise from Toronto).
I'd advise to show up early. Quantities are limited and the best comics go lightning fast. Last year, I got there in the afternoon and only free Archies (and I think Totally Spies or some such) were left :(
My brothers saw the free Wolverine movie 2 week ago.
I... I didn't see laser eyes on Deadpool in this trailer... I DIDN'T SEE LASER EYES!
HOORAY FOR LIFE!
I wonder if they took them out with the reshoots.
The books are not free to the store owners. This year, some issues had mandatory minimum orders.
The store where I shop, the owner will give one free book to each customer (i.e., someone who has bought at least one other book).
Sheesh, I should really get around to reading what I walked out with last year.
The comics given away on Free Comic Book Day are recommended for all-ages and mostly kid-friendly. Remember to grab copies for your own kids, nieces, and nephews.
You can also read comics at Kidjutsu, where every day is free comic book day =).
Disclosure: I run Kidjutsu.
Huzzah! I love Free Comic Book Day, it's so much fun to go load up on all sorts of stuff you'd never considered reading before - thanks for the reminder!
On a tangential note, it's so nice to see comic books continue to build more widespread acceptance. During last year's FCBD our local comic book store was full of people who had clearly not looked at a comic book since they were ten - and heck, even the freshman English course at my local university is going to be teaching 'Persepolis' in the fall. It's marvelous to think that perhaps people are recognizing that the genre can be just as valid and as worthy of 'serious' critical scrutiny as any other ...
So, because of the Swine Flu thing they've canceled all the Cinco De Mayo type stuff around here. But you can still spread the love at FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!
There's a new cause to make Every Day Free Comic Book Day. http://freecomicbookeveryday.blogspot.com
Many comic books to download:
http://comic-lib.blogspot.com