Saturday is the tenth Free Comic Book Day, and the event which began with a suggestion by a retailer in the pages of a trade magazine has now become a major happening in stores around the world; increasingly, it’s the kickoff not just for the summer but most of the comic book year for many publishers. … Read more
Not an unseen Sandman tale, but four new (old) months added to the site: September 1996, January 2000, January 2001, and January 2002. September is interesting as it’s got the oldest year-to-year comparatives available on the site; they’re off quite a lot, as we’re comparing the end of “Heroes Reborn” with its beginning. The Januaries … Read more
Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday, and in this eighth edition it has become a fixture in the comics year. Since its inception in 2002, more than a hundred special edition comics have been created for retailers to distribute — not just on Free Comic Book Day, of course, but throughout the year — … Read more
by John Jackson Miller And speaking of advertising and comics… About a decade ago, I interviewed Manfred Bernhard, the advertising executive who produced the Big Boy comics series for the famed restaurant chain — and there began my attempts to begin tracking down some of the unusual artifacts of this series of promotional comics. Now, … Read more