FCBM5 Day 25

It's day twenty-five of the Fifth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Francene Lewis. The five comics that Francene listed are:

1. Chiggers
2. Fullmetal Alchemist
3. Castle Waiting
4. Finder
5. La Perdida

And her other thing of interest is Hayao Miyazaki movies.

For Francene I have the first issue of Rod Espinosa's Prince of Heroes.

For Francene's bonus comic, I'm sending her the Donald Duck Halloween comic.

Francene's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

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

Current FCBM Statistics:
27 entries
60 free comics sent so far
6 days remaining

FCBM5 Day 24

It's day twenty-four of the Fifth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Kristin Munson. The five comics that Kristin listed are:

1. Castle Waiting
2. Box Office Poison
3. Love & Rockets
4. Rapuzel's Revenge
5. X-Men Classic

And her other thing of interest is "cute, fuzzy animals."

So for Kristin I have the first issue of Banana Sunday, featuring cute monkeys by Paul Tobin & Colleen Coover.

For Kristin's bonus comic, I'm sending her the Peanuts Halloween comic.

Kristin's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

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

Current FCBM Statistics:
27 entries
58 free comics sent so far
7 days remaining

FCBM5 Day 23

It's day twenty-three of the Fifth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Maude Earhart. The five comics that Maude listed are:

1. Wonder Woman
2. Archie
3. Spider-Man
4. The Far Side
5. Casper the Friendly Ghost

Maude says she's looking for an "If Stan Lee created a When Harry Met Sally kind of thing."

For Maude I have the first issue of Mary Jane, Sean McKeever & Takeshi Miyazawa's recasting of Spider-Man as a high school romance.

For Maude's bonus comic, I'm sending her the Donad Duck Halloween comic.

Maude's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

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

Current FCBM Statistics:
27 entries
56 free comics sent so far
8 days remaining

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels on Amazon this afternoon. All the previous caveats apply.

1 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
2 (+2). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
3 (+2). Diary of a Wimpy Kid
4 (-1). Watchmen
5 (+1). Time of Your Life (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 4)
6 (-4). Star Trek: Countdown TPB
7 (-). The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 3: Century, No. 1: 1910
8 (+1). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
9 (+6). Mercy Thompson Homecoming *
10 (-2). Stephen King's Dark Tower: Treachery
11 (+3). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
12 (+9). Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days
13 (-3). Batman: The Killing Joke
14 (-3). V for Vendetta
15 (N). Wolves at the Gate (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 3)
16 (-3). Bone: One Volume Edition
17 (-1). Invincible: The Ultimate Collection Volume 4
18 (+21). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
19 (N). Achewood Volume 2: Worst Song, Played On Ugliest Guitar *
20 (+8). The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1)
21 (+17). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
22 (N). Y: The Last Man Vol. 7: Paper Dolls
23 (N). Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, Vol. 22
24 (N). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
25 (-8). Blueberry Girl
26 (N). Y: The Last Man, Volume 6: Girl on Girl
27 (N). Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Volume 7
28 (-3). The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
29 (-17). Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2 (Deluxe Edition)
30 (N). Wrapped-Up FoxTrot: A Treasury with the Final Daily Strips
31 (+1). No Future For You (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 2)
32 (-1). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
33 (+1). Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 18
34 (N). Freedom's Just Another Word for People Finding Out You're Useless (Dilbert)
35 (N). The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack
36 (-10). The Arrival
37 (+5). Vindication (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Vol. 6)
38 (N). The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists
39 (N). Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth
40 (-3). Serenity, Vol. 1: Those Left Behind
41 (-11). The Complete Persepolis
42 (N). Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
43 (-14). Batman: R.I.P.
44 (N). The DC Comics Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition
45 (N). Angel: After The Fall Volume 1
46 (N). The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House
47 (-20). The Joker
48 (N). Bone Volume 4: The Dragonslayer
49 (N). Superman: New Krypton Vol. 1: Birth
50 (N). The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1


Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.


Commentary:

* Amazon had another search glitch earlier in the week, which may have had some affect on the sales rankings.

* With Watchmen interest waning, The Wimpy Kid volumes regain their usual dominance at the top of the chart.

* The middle volumes of Y, the Last Man make a surprising surge up onto the chart. The only explanation I can think of is that the people who bought the second deluxe edition last week felt the desire to continue the story immediately and not wait for a third deluxe volumes.

* The Wolverine movie halo has completely eroded.

FCBM5 Day 22

It's day twenty-two of the Fifth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Justin Fain. The five comics that Justin listed are:

1. Ex Machina
2. The Walking Dead
3. Fables
4. Invincible
5. Kick Ass

And his other thing of interest is live music.

For Justin I have all three issues of Robert Kirkman & Mark Englert's Capes.

For Justin's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Peanuts Halloween comic.

Justin's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

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

Current FCBM Statistics:
27 entries
54 free comics sent so far
9 days remaining

Wooly Minnie

Bizarro is brought to you today by Lip Sniffers.

Dear readers of my blog,

The more observant of you will notice there is more than one cartoon posted today and the more inquisitive of this subset of observant types will wonder why. I'll keep you in suspense no longer by saying it is because I won't be posting for the next few days and wanted to leave you with a little something extra.

I'm on my way to Hollywood this evening, no, not to star in the next Ron Howard blockbuster about the hidden symbols in my cartoons being clues that lead to the identity of Jesus's secret lover, who begat his child, which then led to a series of begatting resulting in none other than founding father, Benjamin Franklin, who left secret clues to a previously unknown companion document to the Declaration of Independence, the Proclamation of Philly Party Spots. Instead, I'm going to the National Cartoonists Society annual convention.

The convention marks the weekend after the fortnight during which hundreds of professional cartoonists from all over North America work their asses off to get ahead on deadlines so they can arrive dead tired and ready for a weekend of irresponsible alcohol consumption. Should be fun.

The cartoons herein are fun, I think. I have fond memories of my own Wooly Willy from childhood, and the time I brought it to school in the sixth grade, it went missing, and I innocently asked the teacher, "Have you seen my Wooly Willy?" The principal later explained to me in the privacy of his office, why this alarmed her.

The Minnie joke is fun for me because it walks a dangerous line of litigation. While parodies are legal, Disney loves to sue–especially when the parodies have sexual connotations. There is no express sexual content to this cartoon, but you have to admit that Minnie has a nice rack.



My next post will be on Tuesday, May 26, I hope to see you all here again then. In the meantime, have a weekend worthy of a sheik.

Your humble servant,
Mr. Piraro

FCBM5 Day 21

It's day twenty-one of the Fifth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Franco Ippolito. The five comics that Franco listed are:

1. Planetary
2. Iron Fist
3. Incredible Hercules
4. Locke & Key
5. Booster Gold

And his other thing of interest is football.

For Franco I have the first issue of Boom! Studio's Lovecraftian Necronomicon by William Messner-Loebs & Andrew Ritchie.

For Franco's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Peanuts Halloween comic.

Franco's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

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

Current FCBM Statistics:
27 entries
50 free comics sent so far
10 days remaining