Joe Carabeo
This year’s 10th anniversary of Free Comic Book Day was pretty exceptional for me. One, because every year since it’s inception I’ve always wanted to take part in the celebration of Free Comic Book Day. And two, because Free Comic Book Day was the day that I found out about a book that would became super influential to me as a storyteller, that being the David Lapham self-published book, Stray Bullets. So for me this year to finally take part as a Free Comic Book Day guest at Laughing Ogre Comics in Fairfax, VA, and have my own stories for people discover was pretty amazing. I loved being able to tell casual people who would never go into a comic book store about our books, Black Magic Tales, Kid Roxy, and The Legettes. Some never even knew making your own books was even possible — and now they know. The turn out was smashing, very few moments of down time and the layout that Laughing Ogre Comics had for their free books and us was perfect for our exposure, they did a great job and would love to continue to cross promote with them. A huge surprise to me was we even sold a whole bunch of books, and Magic Bullet #6 was flying into new hands. So, overall, I’d say it was a great day.
Carolyn Belefski
Free Comic Book Day is great because it marks the start of a warmer season. There’s usually a comic book movie premiere that weekend (this year was Iron Man 3) and it’s Kentucky Derby Day. This year was the first year I’ve made a FCBD appearance, but I have attended practically every year. Joe Carabeo and I were at Laughing Ogre Comics in Fairfax, VA to distribute Magic Bullet #6 for free and we also set up a table to sell our own comics. Laughing Ogre did a good job with the new layout of the free table and handling the crowds. There were a lot of cosplayers – kids and adults alike all enjoyed taking photos with the characters.We met a ton of people and stayed for 6 hours. I’ll always have the memory of this girl who got very excited about my comic strip, Curls. She had the biggest smile on her face and was in a trance watching me sketch.
You can read about our fellow Magic Bullet #6 contributors and their FCBD experiences here: http://magicbulletcomics.blogspot.com/2013/05/free-comic-book-day-2013.html
Check out more of our photos from FCBD on the Curls Studio Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151568922232381.1073741830.50763422380&type=3
Thanks to Laughing Ogre Comics for allowing us to have a table at their FCBD festivities.
You can read about our fellow Magic Bullet #6 contributors and their FCBD experiences here: http://magicbulletcomics.blogspot.com/2013/05/free-comic-book-day-2013.html
Check out more of our photos from FCBD on the Curls Studio Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151568922232381.1073741830.50763422380&type=3
Thanks to Laughing Ogre Comics for allowing us to have a table at their FCBD festivities.