FCBM2 Day 11

It's day Eleven of the second annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Today's selected entry comes from Jeanne Pauline Lim. Jeanne, who says that she heard about this contest from her boyfriend, lists five comics she likes as:

1. Wonder Woman (post-Crisis)
2. Birds of Prey
3. Girls
4. PS238
5. Runaways

I'll be sending Jeanne a couple of comics that I think she'll enjoy: Amelia Rules #1 by Jimmy Gownley; and Misplaced #1 by Joshua Blaylock.

And like all the selected entries, Jeanne will be receiving a special Dark Horse promo-priced comic, in this case the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic/Rebellion Flip Book.

Jeanne's comics should be in the mail soon. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
49 entries
34 free comics sent so far
20 days remaining

YACB Bulletins

ITEM! Remember: Comic creators read blogs too...

ITEM! Infinite Crisis in 30 Seconds. (via Johanna)

ITEM! Jim Woodring is blogging. Prepare now for your dose of surrealist comics wonderment. (via Heidi)

ITEM! PW Comics Week reports that Jill Thompson has signed a four-GN deal with HarperCollins. Thompson is very talented IMHO--I've enjoyed just about everything of hers that I've read--but she's always been underappreciated in the direct market (despite having won an Eisner). Hopefully HP will give her the exposure she deserves.

ITEM! More FCBM2 linkage, this time from Vincent & Shane. Thanks!

ITEM! Vincent also points out that this coming Monday--the third Monday in May--is Miracle Monday. I'll have to think of a good way to celebrate...

FCBM2 Day 10

It's day Ten of the second annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Today's selected entry comes from Al White. Al says that he's "fairly old school" and that the comics that he keeps an interest in are:

1. Avengers
2. Iron Man
3. Teen Titans
4. Legion of Super-Heroes

Al Says that he's looking forward to reading something new, so I'm sending him Spider-Man/Human Torch #1, with and old school meets new story by Dan Slott, Ty Templeton and Nelson.

And like all the selected entries, Al will be receiving a special Dark Horse promo-priced comic, in this case The Goon 25¢ Edition by Eric Powell.

Al's comics should be in the mail soon. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
49 entries
31 free comics sent so far
21 days remaining

New This Week: May 10, 2006

Based on the NCRL list for this week's comics shipping from Diamond, here are a few things to look for at the local comic shop tomorrow:


Holy Bejeezes, there's a lot of good stuff coming out this week. There are lots of things I could pick for Pick of the Week, but I'm going with Crisis on Multiple Earths vol. 4, with JLA/JSA team-ups co-starring Captain Marvel and the rest of the Earth-S heroes; The Legion of Super-Heroes (battling Mordru!); and the Earth-Prime versions of Elliot S! Maggin, Cary Bates, and Julius Schwartz. It's super-meta-fiction at its finest!


Amaze Ink have a Patty Cake & Friends collection.

Antarctic have the 8th Ninja High School Pocket Manga.

Arcana debut Koni Waves.

Avatar debut Warren Ellis's Wolfskin.

Boom! Studios have a Cthulhu Tales anthology.

Dark Horse have the 11th volume of What's Michael.

DC begin their year-long weekly path to insanity with 52 Week 1. There are also collections for The Authority: The Magnificent Kevin & Superman/Shazam: First Thunder; and new issues of Ex Machina (#20), Fables (#49), Firestorm (#25), Jonah Hex (#7), and Superman (#652). You are reading Superman & Action, right? They get my vote for most improved 1YL titles.

DR Masters have a new volume of Iron Wok Jan (vol. 18).

First Second debut their line of high-class European imports with several volumes all at once; I haven't read any of them, and they all look potentially good, but Trondheim's Alieeen looks to be the most promising.

Graphix bring out the first volume of Raina Telgemeier's Baby-Sitters Club manga-esque GN.

IDW have one-shots for Angel (Spotlight: Illyria) and Spike (Lost and Found).

Image have the second Girls collection.

Marvel have collections for Ultimate Spider-Man (vol. 15: Silver Sable) and the Morrison/Millar/Yeowell Skrull Kill Krew; plus new issues of She-Hulk 2 (#7) and Thunderbolts (#102).

Oni have the first issue of Neal Shafer & Joe Infurnari's Borrowed Time.

Viz give you another dose of Takahashi with Ranma 1/2 vol. 34.

W.W. Norton have a collection of the long out-of-print Kings in Disguise.


So look out for your wallet when you wander into your FLCS on Wednesday (and maybe they'll have some leftover FCBD books to take away soem of the sting!)

Battling Ignorance

I stumbled across this cover on the GCD: The Amazing Spider-Man Battles Ignorance. Please tell me that someone has this and can provide more info! (Scott perhaps?)



And yes, that's She-Hulk's pal Awesome Andy that Spidey is fighting on the cover!

FCBM2 Day 9

It's day Nine of the second annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Today's selected entry comes from Bethany Tirpak. The five comics that Bethany listed are:

1. Confidential Confessions
2. Paradise Kiss
3. Snowdrop
4. Happy Mania
5. The Devil Does Exist

Bethany is obviously a manga fan--josei manga, in fact. Now the obvious thing would be to pack up an old manga comic and ship it off to her; but I'll be foregoing the obvious and sending Bethany Enchanted #1 by Robert Chang. It's about a young woman singer-songwriter, so I think it will suit her sensibilities.

And like all the selected entries, Bethany will be receiving a special Dark Horse promo-priced comic, in this case The Goon 25¢ Edition by Eric Powell.

Bethany's comics should be in the mail soon. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
48 entries
29 free comics sent so far
22 days remaining

New Library Comics: Week of May 1, 2006

Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:


Andreas, Joel. Addicted to war : why the U.S. can't kick militarism /Edinburgh : AK, 2003.

Baker, Kyle. Kyle Baker : cartoonist. /New York : K. Baker, 2004.

Burns, Charles, 1955- El Borbah /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c2005.

Madden, Matt. 99 ways to tell a story : exercises in style /New York : Chamberlain Bros., 2005.

Ott, Thomas, 1966 June 10- Dead end /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2002.

Richardson, Mike. Cravan /Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse Comics, 2005.

Sala, Richard. The chuckling whatsit /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c2005.

Seth, 1962- Wimbledon Green : the greatest comic book collector in the world /Montreal : Drawn and Quarterly ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.


Wimbledon Green has what is my new favorite LC Subject Heading:

Comic books, strips, etc. -- Collectors and collecting -- Comic books, strips, etc.