Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Free Comic Book Day Reports
:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/06/2008 04:42:00 PM This past Saturday, May 3, was Free Comic Book Day across the U.S. and Canada, an event intended to promote comics through local comic book shops. I largely agree with Kevin Boyd that the event should be an opportunity to reach out to the larger community of people who might not venture into comic shops normally or even read comics. This is a great time for local shops to get some free press coverage and lots of potential new customers. With few exceptions, I don't really see this happening. For the most part, the people who show up for this event usually have found out about it in one of their weekly visits to the shop. No press releases are sent out and no outreach or cross-promotion with other organizations is ventured. When I wandered into my own local comic shop around 5 pm to ask how things went, the teenage clerk painting a role-playing model at the large table that takes up the front window of the empty store informed me that most of the free comics vanished in the first hour of the promotion, around 9am, gesturing to a pile of brochures and 3 copies of the VIZ/Shonen Jump giveaway to indicate all that remained. As far as I could tell, the sole message to the outside world that something unique was happening today was a lone poster in the window, competing with the other posters.
The events that I heard of before hand include the signings at the Silver Snail and the Beguiling event at the Toronto Public Library (which began at noon).
Here are some reports and pictures:
Stuart Immonen
Jason Truong reports
Chris Butcher reports on the Beguiling event
Strange Adventures in Halifax got some press
A picture of Elfsar in VancouverLabels: events, free, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto, Vancouver
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Monday, April 07, 2008
Free Ticket: Toronto Fan Appreciation Event
:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/07/2008 06:01:00 AM I got this "Free Admission" pass to the upcoming Hobbystar Toronto Comicon Fan Appreciation Event. According to Hobbystar's website, admission is $10 but this pass gets you in Sunday for free. Apparently, comic shops in the "Greater Toronto" area, including Guelph's The Dragon, where I got mine, are giving these things away like they were going out of style. But just in case you haven't been to a comic shop for awhile, and would like to go to this event, I am offering this ticket to the first person to email me with their address. I will even spring for postage. This event in year's past was the subject of controversy, and I think it was even free in 2006, but things seem to be different now. Anyway, the event features great guests including the Transmission X gang, Jeff Lemire, Scott Chantler, and even ex-Iron Man fieldhands, Bob Layton and Dave Micheline.Labels: free, Ontario, Toronto
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