Free Comic Book Day 2016

For those of you who aren't aware, I'm the Admin at the Free Comic Book Day Facebook Group. Covers for some of the books coming your way on Free Comic Book Day 2016 have just been released, and you can check 'em out below...

And join the Free Comic Book Day Facebook Event here!

Daredevil Netflix Free Comics Celebration Event

To mark Daredevil's critically-acclaimed debut on Netflix, today you can get Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #1, by Frank Miller & John Romita Jr.; and Daredevil: Yellow #1 by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale FREE Digital Comics - courtesy of Comixology - at my Free Comic Book Day Facebook Group here!

Free Civil War Comics Day

In anticipation of Marvel bringing Civil War to the big screen...

Get your Free Civil War Digital comics at my Free Comic Book Day Facebook Group - today - here!

Free Marvel Comics Day at the FCBD Facebook Group

Join the Free Comic Book Day Facebook Group here!

Comicbook Facebook Group - Enter the Multiverse Event

If you have me as a friend on Facebook, the odds are you'll have heard about the first Event I've been setting up for my Comicbook Facebook Group - Enter the Comics Multiverse. Well, it's all sorted now and kicks off at 11am EST, 8am PST, 4pm GMT on Sunday Aug 31st.

Here's the schedule:

11AM EST/8AM PST/4PM GMT - SAM JOHNSON. I'll be opening the event and taking questions on comics writing and my books Geek-Girl, The Almighties and Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman.

12PM EST/9AM PST/5PM GMT - Guests will be joining me throughout the day and taking YOUR questions - kicking off with Brit SI SPENCER (Judge Dredd, Books of Magick, Hellblazer) - writer of the acclaimed new time-twisting murder mystery series, Bodies.

1PM EST/10AM PST/6PM GMT - JAMES HUDNALL (Alpha Flight, Harsh Realm, Strikeforce Morituri). The veteran creator will be taking questions on his illustrious career writing for Marvel, Image and DC, among others - and discussing his new series for Aces Weekly, Blue Cat.

2PM EST/11AM PST/7PM GMT - New Brit writer & artist team PATRICK SCATTERGOOD and DAN CHARNLEY have just released the first issue of their horror comic Flesh Tones - and they'll be discussing this, and taking your questions on getting started in comics.

3PM EST/12PM PST/8PM GMT - FABRICE SAPOLSKY is co-writer of Edge of the Spider-Verse #1 - which stars Spider-Man Noir and kicks off the upcoming major Spider-Man crossover event; featuring every incarnation of Spider-Man & Spider-Woman ever, including Miles Morales, Superior, and new alternate universe Spider-Woman, Gwen Stacey! Got questions about the Spider-Verse event? Ask Fabrice here!

4PM EST/1PM PST/9PM GMT - JOHN LEES is the creator/writer of hit new horror series And Then Emily Was Gone, as well as acclaimed super-hero series The Standard - which he worked on with my Almighties co-creator Mike Gagnon. John will be talking about his books and answering questions on how to have a hit title.

5PM EST/2PM PST/10PM GMT - I'll be bringing things home - taking any questions you have about the Comicbook Facebook Group, and anything else you want to ask about my own comics.

Throughout the day, the Event will crossover with my other Facebook Groups, Comic Book Share Group - where you'll be able to see more on our featured creators' books, and Free Comic Book Day Facebook Group - where you can find related Previews and Free Digital Comics - and we may have some more surprise guests, too.

So if you wanna get fully set for the Event on Sunday, join up to all three groups by clicking on the links below now! See you there. ;)

Comicbook Facebook Group
Comic Book Share Group
Free Comic Book Day

Comicbook Facebook Group

Those of you that have me as a Facebook friend may know that I'm quite involved in the Groups and Fanpages side of FB. As well as having groups/fanpages for my own comics, I run a Marvel NOW! Fanpage and am the Admin of the Free Comic Book Day FB Group, among others.

Another FB Group I'd taken over - that I'd never really done a lot with, it not having had a defined identity - started getting heat when I added a masthead featuring old and new Defenders. With the masthead size requirements meaning it had to be cropped, what I had visible were the more obscure characters - a lot of whom, myself included, many people wouldn't be familiar with. This was a conscious decision, as the image blurred the lines between Marvel and indy; and could easily have been mistaken as an amalgam of both.

This picture sparked membership interest in the group and I got the idea of developing it further... to build a group that crossed any perceived lines between the Big Two and independent publishers - not that this in itself was a new idea - but that also crossed over between other Facebook Groups...

That happens with the group's First Event on August 31st: Comicbook Facebook Group - Enter the Comics Multiverse! I'll be hosting this live at the Comicbook Facebook Group throughout the day - with a running thread in which peeps can ask me about my comics Geek-Girl, The Almighties and Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman; writing comics, the Comicbook Facebook Group, and anything else you like.

And while that's going on, we'll be spotlighting other comics and comic book universes - crossing over with my new Comic Book Share Group, where you'll be able to find out more about the featured books; and my Free Comic Book Day FB Group, where you'll be able to get related Previews and Free Digital Comics!

Other creators will also be stopping by to take YOUR questions, and I'm hoping the event will introduce you to new comic book universes, and have you checking out books that you wouldn't otherwise have known about - as well as bringing you News & Previews on those you're already familiar with.

You can Join up to the event at Facebook here - where more announcements will be made as we head towards it - and you can get prepped NOW by the joining the Comicbook Facebook Group, Comic Book Share Group, and Free Comicbook Day Group (where you'll already find a ton of free digital comics... :)

VALIANT DAY at my Free Comic Book Day Facebook Group

If you haven't jumped into the new Valiant Universe yet, this is your entry point; look for Free digital Valiant comics - including issue #1's - throughout today at the Group!

Free Batman Comics Day

Batman is celebrating his 75th anniversary this year, and yesterday comic shops gave away free copies of a Special Edition of the second most important twenty-seventh issue of a comic ever, Detective Comics #27.

You can take a look at that, and get Batman: The Ten Cent Adventure, and Batman Black & White: A Black and White World - by the red hot creative team of Neil Gaiman and Simon Bisley - all FREE at my FCBD Facebook Group here!