Happy Free Comic Book Day!
Today is Free Comic Book Day. The first Saturday in May over the past few years has been filled with fun when I take Isabella and Melissa down to my local comic shop, Phantom Zone, and the FCBD comics are out on the tables and they have great sales and it’s just a fun vibe.
This is an international celebration of comics and not enough people I know get into it. For a simple trip down to Parramatta so many people I know could check out the stories of the characters they love to watch in movies in their original context.
This year though, is something special.
From late March 2011 through to June I co-promoted and ran an online petition requesting comic publishers IDW Publishing to bring back the original Transformers comics series by writer Simon Furman.
It wasn’t until San Diego Comic Con that they said anything publicly – and they announced that they were going to do a 20 issue run with Furman AND artist Andrew Wildman.
Many of my blog readers know all about this. We got lots of fan artists and pro’s doing promotional pieces of art that helped to promote the petition. We had a Facebook page and twitter account and put flyers in our comic shops. We even had some news sites report about the petition.
And now it’s FCBD 2012 and the first issue, a prologue issue 80.5 is here!
I sincerely hope that all the fans that supported the petition get out there and grab a copy and try to take as many friends in to get one as well!
The series starts in June at #81 and I can’t wait to see where the creative team will take the series!
Happy FCBD everyone!
Inkman Comics 