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story time!   yesterday at Comic Odyssey 's #FreeComicBookDay2024 event, a couple of guys walk by ardie and i's table and one of them goes, "hey, school run!" and points at our comic.   he then enthusiastically summarizes the plot of the comic to his friend, from memory, based on the few issues he'd bought years ago. the friend, intrigued, buys our first issue.   a small thing. but as a writer there's not much more i could ask for.    

it's 4 am and my brain is refusing to let me go back to sleep because it wants free comic book day to last a few extra hours longer. photo by chino andin FCBD at fully booked today/yesterday had something of that first komikon experience feel, only with air conditioning: new venue, new audience/market, and things were laid back enough to allow some pleasant jibberjabber with seatmates (doc carlo san juan and the QBCCC /flipreads crew--noel pascual, aj bernardo, josel nicloas, and later in the afternoon, trizha ko and charles tan). things i overheard: the first person in line outside fully booked had arrived at 1 am that morning the free comics ran out sometime past noon and they had to send some of the people waiting in line home empty-handed :( photo by mel casipit when i arrived at 11 am, things were already in full swing: the line outside snaked around the block, and inside, the building was jam-packed. i'd brought a laptop to play the  ang maskot  m...

free comics! and i don't mean one or two copies, i mean a fat bag full of lovely comics you get to take home without forking over a peso. no, check that, TWO fat bags. at left is the cover of this year's comic odyssey sampler, to which i contributed a 2-page story. the sampler will be available at the fully booked/comic odyssey event at the bonifacio high street branch of fully booked. also at the event will be the following comics folks: Dr. Carlo Jose San Juan (Doc Callous) Frances Luna III Illustration Firm (Manila Accounts 1081): Rh Quilantang (Hipon Gamay) Wan Mañanita (Ang Morion) Kai Castillo (Patintero) Mel Casipit (Mukat) Paul Michael Ignacio (Astiging Boy-Ipis) Aaron Felizmenio (Gwapoman 2000) Freely Abrigo (Kapitan Tog) Jon Zamar (Codename: Bathala) JP Palabon (Puso Negro) Macoy (School Run) Manix Abrera (Kikomachine) Melvin Calingo (Pasig) Michael David (Kubori Kikiam) Nelz Yumul (Shatter Space) Noel Pascual & AJ Bernardo (Crime Fighting Call Center Agents...

it was madness yesterday at comic odyssey galleria's free comic book day event. i arrived around 11am and there looked to be about a hundred people standing outside the shop, while the interior was so packed you could throw in a coin and it wouldn't touch the floor. i saw one guy stumble out the door literally gasping for air while holding his credit card aloft. i kid you not. i was going to hand out some flyers to the people standing in line (better to get my message to them while their loot bags were empty, i thought), but sir sandy offered to put the flyers in with the other free comics they were giving away and i naturally couldn't refuse. it being my first FCBD, i was surprised at the number of free books. i was expecting the earlier-announced 3-5, but went home with no less than a dozen, including a maxx #1 and a beautiful edition of fractured fables with a mike allred cover. i hear some of the earlybirds received twice that number, including more than a few GNs tha...

here's how free comic book day works: STEP 1- go to participating comics shop on may 1. STEP 2- receive free comic book. is it really that simple? YES, IT IS. and the more comics shops you go to, the higher you chances of getting MORE FREE COMICS!!! here'a list of foreign titles that will be given away FOR FREE. there will be local titles, too, i think. for more updates, here's the unofficial facebook page .