The "Ain't Gonna Spend No Green" Lantern
Free Comic Book Day: in a bizarre and unprecedented act of Smart Marketing, when the first Spider-Man movie was released the comix industry realized that here was an Opportunity. So on opening weekend, Free Comic Book day was born: a day when (damned-near) every comix shop in the country would have free (free free) comics for all comers, first-come-first served...nearly all of them prepared by their publishers expressly for the event and oftentimes with brand-new content.
It's been repeated every year since then and this year was my first indication that it's starting to become a national holiday for the art form. Many stores hold special events (sales, appearances by artists and authors), even; if I'd gone to a store in Brockton, for example, I could have creeped people out by taking pictures of a womand dressed as Zatanna.
May 5 was also my chance to finally see my usual comix/magazine/nerdpress store's new digs. At the start of the month, The Outer Limits moved just a skosh down Moody Street, one block away from the digs they'd had for nearly two decades.
(And it looks like an upgrade. The block used to be divebar > porn store > Outer Limits. Now they've got a whole corner to themselves.)
The "Ain't Gonna Spend No Green" Lantern
Free Comic Book Day: in a bizarre and unprecedented act of Smart Marketing, when the first Spider-Man movie was released the comix industry realized that here was an Opportunity. So on opening weekend, Free Comic Book day was born: a day when (damned-near) every comix shop in the country would have free (free free) comics for all comers, first-come-first served...nearly all of them prepared by their publishers expressly for the event and oftentimes with brand-new content.
It's been repeated every year since then and this year was my first indication that it's starting to become a national holiday for the art form. Many stores hold special events (sales, appearances by artists and authors), even; if I'd gone to a store in Brockton, for example, I could have creeped people out by taking pictures of a womand dressed as Zatanna.
May 5 was also my chance to finally see my usual comix/magazine/nerdpress store's new digs. At the start of the month, The Outer Limits moved just a skosh down Moody Street, one block away from the digs they'd had for nearly two decades.
(And it looks like an upgrade. The block used to be divebar > porn store > Outer Limits. Now they've got a whole corner to themselves.)