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Comic Book City Readies For Free Comic Book Day

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COMIC BOOK CITY READIES FOR FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

GREENSBORO, NC – Free Comic Book Day is Saturday and Comic Book City, USA and Acme Comics are ready to celebrate. And with two locations, Acme is prepared for more than 4,000 attendees.

“We expect this to be one of the largest Free Comic Book Day events in the world,” said Jermaine Exum, Acme Comics manager. “We can’t wait to share our passion for comics with all our friends and neighbors.”

Acme will offer 40 different comic books on May 5 and have 20 professional comic book artists drawing free sketches. There will also be face painting, superheroes, contests and so much more to keep everyone entertained.

Last year more than 1,500 people turned out for Free Comic Book Day at Acme including the first recorded occurrence anywhere of fans camping out overnight to be first in line. Clark Sellars and his son, Austin, 10, will be among those camping out this year.

“There’s really nothing like Free Comic Book Day and nobody does it like Acme Comics,” Sellars said. “This is a chance to do something for my son, with my son. This is a chance for us to bond.”

Sellars isn’t alone. Excitement for Free Comic Book Day is spreading across Greensboro. The city council voted in April to officially recognize Free Comic Book Day and to take on the alter ego of “Comic Book City, USA” on the day each year.

This year Acme Comics has also partnered with the Natural Science Center of Greensboro to offer a second location for Free Comic Book Day. Families will get free comics and sketches while hanging out with tigers, lemurs, superheroes and dinosaur fossils!

About Acme Comics: Acme Comics is a four-time Eisner-nominated comic book store, as well as Greensboro’s oldest and largest comic shop with 26 years of experience and counting. The shop offers hundreds of new releases each Wednesday and over 50,000 classic issues, collected volumes and graphical novels   among many other collectibles. Learn more at http://www.acmecomics.com

About Free Comic Book Day: On Free Comic Book Day participating retailers give away free comics produced by leading publishers especially for the event. Free Comic Book Day occurs annually on the first Saturday in May and is sponsored by the comic book industry and local retailers. Learn more at http://www.freecomicbookday.com

Barack, Meet Miles

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Ultimate Comics Fallout #4 Preview2Third grade students from The Sumner Elementary school are on their way to Washington, DC for the planting of the White House Kitchen Garden with first lady Michelle Obama.  Local comic book store Acme Comics decided to use the opportunity to pass along comic books to President Obama, a self admitted comic book fan.

Acme Comics staff gave the students copies of Ultimate Fallout #4, the first appearance of the Miles Morales Spider-Man, as well as G-Man: Cape Crisis #2 set in Greensboro, North Carolina where the store is located.  The hope is the first lady will pass along the comic books to her husband.

I wonder what the President’s thoughts are on the new Spider-Man?

(via Bleeding Cool)

Top Cow Pilot Season 2010 Signing Tour

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Official Press Release

TOP COW PILOT SEASON 2010 SIGNING TOUR

LOS ANGELES, Calif., September 16, 2010 – Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that first title off of the 2010 Pilot Season slate will arrive in stores next week on September 22nd, 2010.  Pilot Season 2010 debuts a new format consisting of five new concepts and five different creative teams released in a span of five weeks.  In support of Pilot Season 2010, stateside creators will be embarking on a signing tour coinciding with their pilot’s release.

”Pilot Season is an ideal event for us to schedule signing events around because of the wide variety of talent we have participating each year,” explained Publisher Filip Sablik. “This year is no different with established talent like Marc Silvestri, Jeff Katz, and Phil Noto along side exciting up-and-comers like Jerry Lando, David Marquez, and the dynamic duo of Hill and Levin. We’re all getting out on the campaign trail to win the hearts and minds of our voting public!”

Pilot Season: 39 Minutes’ William Harms and Jerry Lando will kick off the launch of Pilot Season 2010 next week in Las Vegas and Philadelphia, respectively.

Book Signing Dates

Pilot Season: 39 Minutes

·       William Harms: Comic Oasis, Las Vegas, September 22, http://www.comicoasis.com

·       Jerry Lando:  Atomic City Comics, Philadelphia, September 25, 2-5pm, http://www.bestphillycomics.com

Pilot Season: Asset

·       Filip Sablik: Earth 2 Comics, Los Angeles, September 29, http://www.earth2comics.com

·       Jenny Frison: Challengers 2.0, Chicago, September 29, 5-7pm, http://www.challengerscomics.com

·       David Marquez: Austin Books and Comics, Austin, TX, October 13, http://www.austinbooks.com

Pilot Season: Crosshair

·       Jeff Katz: Brave New World, Los Angeles, October 16, http://www.bravenewworldcomics.com

Pilot Season: 7 Days From Hell

·       Bryan Edward Hill:  Starclipper Comics, St. Louis, October 23, http://starclipper.com

·       Rob Levin: The Comic Bug, Long Beach, October 23, 4 PM – 8 PM, http://thecomicbug.com

·       Phil Noto:  ACME Comics, October 23, http://www.acmecomics.com (tentative)

For more information on Pilot Season and upcoming signing events, go to www.topcow.com.

Pilot Season

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