Free Comic Book Day 2016
This is the 15th year of Free Comic Book day and we have gone from basically catalogues of what is coming out with reprints of famous issues to entirely new content from a variety of publishers.
Now the comics are free to you but they do cost your local comic book store some money so buying things is a good way to show your appreciation for your store hosting the event.
Peter is at the Level Up event at the Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing New Jersey today from 10 to 5. He has books and comic scripts to sell and Sir Apropos on CD.
I am so glad that we have gotten to the point that comic books and the like are mainstream. We have comic books and graphic novels in the schools for the children to read. They have discovered that some children who have some difficulty reading books in elementary school, have a much easier time learning to read with comics.
Most of the blockbuster films this year are comic book related.
Wearing an Iron Man T-shirt isn’t looked at strangely anymore. You can pick up super-hero themed clothing in just about every box store that sells clothing.
Commercials have embraced the superhero. I love the M&M commercial that ties into X-Men Age of Apocalypse with Nightcrawler and Storm.
We are living in a gold age were being a fan of comics is not looked at as odd or strange but normal.
We still do have the weird debates of Hulk vs. Thing (Hulk all the way) or Batman vs. Manbat. But those are for our enjoyment.
Sure there are a few that are saying that this influx of fans is ruining it for them but that is so not true. It’s no longer a boy’s club and the icky girls are even writing and drawing comics for the big publishers. So we aren’t going away.
Find your local comic book store and check out something new. There’s a lot out there and it is not all super heroes either.
I am grateful for the mainstreaming of comics and the people who got us to this point.
Now the comics are free to you but they do cost your local comic book store some money so buying things is a good way to show your appreciation for your store hosting the event.
Peter is at the Level Up event at the Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing New Jersey today from 10 to 5. He has books and comic scripts to sell and Sir Apropos on CD.
I am so glad that we have gotten to the point that comic books and the like are mainstream. We have comic books and graphic novels in the schools for the children to read. They have discovered that some children who have some difficulty reading books in elementary school, have a much easier time learning to read with comics.
Most of the blockbuster films this year are comic book related.
Wearing an Iron Man T-shirt isn’t looked at strangely anymore. You can pick up super-hero themed clothing in just about every box store that sells clothing.
Commercials have embraced the superhero. I love the M&M commercial that ties into X-Men Age of Apocalypse with Nightcrawler and Storm.
We are living in a gold age were being a fan of comics is not looked at as odd or strange but normal.
We still do have the weird debates of Hulk vs. Thing (Hulk all the way) or Batman vs. Manbat. But those are for our enjoyment.
Sure there are a few that are saying that this influx of fans is ruining it for them but that is so not true. It’s no longer a boy’s club and the icky girls are even writing and drawing comics for the big publishers. So we aren’t going away.
Find your local comic book store and check out something new. There’s a lot out there and it is not all super heroes either.
I am grateful for the mainstreaming of comics and the people who got us to this point.