Forum - View topicNEWS: Free Comic Book Day on July 3rd
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manafairy
 Posts: 113 Location: My own tweaked world.... |
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Does anyone know what stores are supposed to be participating? I mean is it only comic book stores or is there a chance that Borders or Barnes and Noble may be participating? The only comic store I know of around me only sells vintage american comics so otherwise, I won't get to take part in it
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Naruto Uzumaki
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Thats Cool and on my Birthday to bad i wont be able to get any tho cus i dont know where it is either
 but its still cool
Hey, I barely post here isnt that awesome 
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Anime_Freak
 Posts: 420 Location: Oklahoma |
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Try here if I remember correctly they have an area on there where you can see who, if anyone, is participating in your area. |
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lianncoop
Past ANN Contributor
 Posts: 1705 Location: Indiana |
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I know our library is participating in free comic book day. The local comic shop brings stuff over for us to hand out.
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ex_mutants
Posts: 54 |
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http://www.freecomicbookday.com/fcbd_locator.asp
Go to the link and put in your zipcode and it will point out the closest store |
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Emerje
 Posts: 7336 Location: Maine |
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All may not be lost if you can't make that day. *Some* stores will keep giving them away until they're all gone. Since the books will sometimes have "Free Comic Book Day" printed right on them, the dealers can't do too much more with them than give them out.
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Maccers
Posts: 87 Location: England |
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"Free comic book day" not "Free manga day", just a thought....
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Emerje
Posts: 7336 Location: Maine |
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There will be free manga there though, I know for sure there will be a Del Ray sampler available and several "Ameri-manga" titles, including a Keenspot sampler.
Emerje |
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The Xenos
 Posts: 1519 Location: Boston |
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And just like last time, Newbury Comics are not participating. Unfortunately, we didn't know any other shops within walking distance and went to the one on Newbury Street in Boston where they couldn't care less about us. Not that Newbury Comics should ever be considered a comic store. If it's all you got, then fine, but that day proved that they should not be your place for comics.
Thankfully we have since found there is a fantastic store down the street a few blocks called Comicopia and they are definatley participating. After we see Spider-man this year we are certainly going there. Anyone in Boston, I encourage you to do the same. Though I see there are some New England Comics more toward Brookline, and those are good stores too, the one closest to us is Comicopia and it's a damn fine shop. Oh and I must pimp out my local store, Jerry's Comics & Collectables 296 Cabot St Beverly, Ma. It's a small shop and maybe not the best oragnized, but Jerry is a great guy and has "the greatest little comic shop on the north shore". As for Borders or Barnes and Noble, I can tell you right now they are not. They aren't even listed on the comic shop locator. They do not sell comic books, they only sell the collections and simply are a completely different distribution circuit. -Xenos |
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The Xenos
Posts: 1519 Location: Boston |
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That is simply awesome. -Xenos |
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Emerje
Posts: 7336 Location: Maine |
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I've never figured out where they got the name Newbury COMICS from, comics are such a small part of the store. It's more like Newbury CDs, they take up a huge part of the store and the comic rack is only about 7'x6'. Or atleast, that's how the one here is... Emerje |
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animaniac
 Posts: 246 Location: Idaho |
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hastings entertainment superstores are participating I missed em the last few years but I won't this time!
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KawaiiKitty
 Posts: 61 Location: Canada |
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Yay! I don't care as much for the comics (since I will be buying the 2nd volume of xxxholic anyways^^), it's the whole event thats fun! It's a great way for newcomers to pick up manga/comics. At my local comic store, there's a big poster on the window and loads of boxes full of free comics inside already.
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flicker
 Posts: 10 Location: Virginia |
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I want to thank ex_mutants for posting that link. I would have had no bloody idea as to where to go if I hadn't seen it. Thank goodness for no longer living in a small town and having to drive two and a half hours to get to a decent comic store!
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pandorina
 Posts: 43 Location: USA |
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 It's About Freaking Time  ...
I have waited 10 years for this moment. I thought It would come last year but I was mistaken. But I am excited. At long last Manga is available Free For All. Even if it is only samplers, it will spread the love of manga around into those that might not normally try it. I am sooooo happy.  VIZ natually chose not to participate (I just find them to be a bit stingy anyway)
Del Rey and Tokyopop (and any other manga and comic book publishers who are participating) I solute you! 
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