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Free Comic Book Day Was Awesome
- Posted at 02-05-09 - 06:55 PM by Jonah Weiland
Wow, what a great day, huh?
I’ll be totally honest, I was a bit late to the Free Comic Book Day party, embracing it fully for the first time in 2008. Last year, Atomic Comics‘ Mike Malve (who’s been mobile blogging on this here CBR Live! all day) called me up and asked if I’d come out to Phoenix for FCBD 2008 as they had all seven Image Comics creators signing at their Mesa super store. That’s a piece of comics history and no way was I going to miss out on that. So I went and had a total blast. I owe Mike a big debt of thanks for showing me the light.
Last year was also the first year we used CBR Live! to mobile blog FCBD events from across the country. It was so incredible watching all these different events transpire across the country. It gave you a very real sense of just how amazing this party is.
And here we are, FCBD 2009, and it’s just as good as last year. This year I stayed here in Los Angeles to manage the team and to interview William Shatner in our video studio above Golden Apple Comics on Melrose. The interview went amazing and I can’t wait for you all to see it. Special thanks to Darren @ Blue Water Productions for setting it up.
But as much fun as that was, have a look at all these photos and reports from around the country! WOW! From the East Coast to the West Coast! From Southern California to the Pacific Northwest! From California to Connecticut! How cool is that?
I’m already thinking about how we can do this even better next year and I think the most immediate answer is — more mobile bloggers! And we have to get Canada and England in on the action!
Thanks to our entire crew. Can’t wait for next year!
One Comment
Rich DeSensi
May 3, 2009 at 5:04 pm
FCBD is definitely an awesome event that I look forward to every year. I buy books regularly but always make it a point to get to a comic shop on FCBD. It let’s me try new things that I might not have picked up otherwise. Last year’s find was “Atomic Robo”, and this year “The Stuff of Legend” really blew me away — it looks like a really sweet book that I’m going to be picking up regularly. My biggest fear though is that the too many of the people who come in for free books won’t want to come back when they have to pay for them. The good folks at Westfield Comics here in Madison, WI do a great job of making it an Event, I’d hate to know that they were doing such good work in vain.
The best description I heard of FCBD while I was waiting in line was that it was like “a National Holiday for geeks”.