Six Pretty Interesting FCBD ‘08 Links

The Direct Market promotion Free Comic Book Day took place over the weekend. It's a difficult thing to cover because a) it's a promotion, and b) it's been around for a few years now.

I would imagine the bigger story with the event, the trend story, is that some people are continuing to do well with the opportunity it presents and some people are either participating in a half-hearted way or opting out altogether. Since that's a judgment call for the most part, I'm not sure how you'd quantify it. What that calls into question is whether or not the event has national reach. There are no comics shops where I live, for example, and if you're in a town with one shop and they're not participating, it may be an hour or two until you find a shop that is. That kind of ruins the benefits provided by national attention.

Anyway, here are few interesting links I stumbled across about Saturday's event.

* if you were going to go to the comics shop with one reviewer and then look at the books brought back, that person would certainly be Jog.

* Tom the Dog finds the way some shops participate in the promotion to be kind of lame. I swear when the promotion started that you could expect one comic and these were primarily aimed at potential new readers; now it seems like many people expect them all and it's the regular readers that want them the most.

* Maryland Congressman CA Dutch Ruppersberger introduced a resolution supporting the event. No word on whether the other congressmen immediately beat him up and took his lunch money.

* Zeus Comics in Dallas turns FCBD into a mini-convention: a Blog@Newsarama writer visits CAPE!

* Mike Sterling bemoans how some stores treat the promotional opportunity and explains how his store embraces the event.

* Atomic Comics in Phoenix also did it up with an Image Comics founders signing.
 
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