{"id":3897,"date":"2018-05-03T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-30T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T22:16:14","slug":"free-comic-book-day-is-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/03\/free-comic-book-day-is-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Comic Book Day is Saturday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<p>As the headline says, Free Comic Book Day is Saturday! As always, click to find <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecomicbookday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">events in your area<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>In past years, I&#8217;ve reposted the origin story of the biggest multi-store event in comics here on the blog, but there&#8217;s interest year-round, so we now have a dedicated FAQ page on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/faq\/freecomicbookdayorigin.html\"><b>origins of Free Comic Book Day.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, if you haven&#8217;t seen it before, event founder <b>Joe Field<\/b> has an excellent video on the subject that&#8217;s worth checking out:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"YOUTUBE-iframe-video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3EI5D4HFbIw?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/3EI5D4HFbIw\/0.jpg\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In my comics-creator-and-novelist identity, I&#8217;ll be making two stops this Free Comic Book Day, signing from 9-11 at <b>Powers Comics<\/b> in Green Bay, Wis., and then from 12-2 at <b>House of Heroes<\/b> in Oshkosh. I&#8217;ve done many FCBD signings, but never two in one day. See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the headline says, Free Comic Book Day is Saturday! As always, click to find events in your area. In past years, I&#8217;ve reposted the origin story of the biggest multi-store event in comics here on the blog, but there&#8217;s interest year-round, so we now have a dedicated FAQ page on the\u00a0origins of Free Comic &#8230; <a title=\"Free Comic Book Day is Saturday!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/03\/free-comic-book-day-is-saturday\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Free Comic Book Day is Saturday!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6262,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions\/6262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}