Free Comic Book Day…
HELP!
I totally forgot that Dreamland is in the Free Comic Book Day Issue and that Free Comic Book Day is in a few weeks.
Are there any comic shops near Nashville that’s doing anything for FCBD? I don’t have a place to sign and would love to hang out with some other creators and sign the comic and meet some fans.
If anyone knows a Comic Shop I can sign at…I’d appreciate it.
Hi, don’t know if you already know this but Free Comic Book Day has a website with a Store Locator in the left menu. You should be able to see which stores near you are participating.
Here is the link:
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/
As Rusty posted above, you can check that link for participating stores, but yes, there are plenty in the region.
Nashville’s only participating store (!) is The Great Escape, which is a great place with a variety of wares (I used to go there all the time), but is fairly limited inside in terms of room, and parking is abysmal.
Franklin only has one participating store, Great Escape, though I’ve heard good things about them as well.
Murfreesboro has three stores participating, with Hastings arguably being the biggest, though they have a spotty record about actually participating in FCBD. Grand Adventures is mostly gaming…I don’t know anything about them.
Please do let us know where you will be…I know I’ll be working evenings then, so I’ll head out for the first time in a long while to peruse. If you need any more info, I’ll try to help out.
Even though they’re not listed on the “official” site, I’d look up Rick’s Comic City and Comic City too (in Donelson and Rivergate/Madison respectively), they’re mostly likely participating as well.
Ok I was wrong…Comix City Too is on the site.
Thanks!
There are only 2 stores with actual signings (see creator signings) in Tennessee.
And they’re each over 3 hours away.
The Store Locator indeed shows stores nearby me. I’ve been to the Franklin Outer Limits. It’s a fun shop that I take the kids to when we want to look at Star Wars toys. And I’ve driven out to Grand Adventures several times and the guys there are REALLY nice.
But as far as I know…neither of them are doing signings.
I hate to be the ONLY person signing at a shop. I did that for my Spider-Man release at Golden Apple…it was kind of sad. Sitting there watching people come in and out…ha ha.
Call me shy. But I just like to do signings with other creators.
🙂
scott, i bet if YOU signed up you’ll make everyone’s day in nashville! and maybe someone else, shy like you, would end up coming in to do a signing, after hearing that you’d be there.
don’t be shy! it’s definitely not sad, more like COOL AS HECK! i’ve never been to a comic convention or whatever, partly bc i moved to israel in 2000, but i’ve seen dozens of my favorite writers do readings and had them sign my books, leslie marmon silko, n. scott momaday, simon ortiz, linda hogan, barbara kingsolver, and so on…unforgettable memories that really influenced the way i perceive native american literature. sure, you don’t have to, but if you only show up for even an hour, it might make some kids/people very happy!
p.s. get your html buddy on fixing the voting links – the multiplex solution really is perfect for your page in terms of layout and design…and dreamland is not as high on the lists as it really should be…
ok, i just discovered that the super-talented creator of LinT – also a family-friendly fantasy comic and one of my all-time favorites – is in tennessee right now for two weeks. i bet you could persuade her to go to one of these comic shops if it wasn’t too far from where she is – and do signings with you. she also has kids, etc, who like her story. http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/
Hey, I have to thank you cuz Dreamland provided several hours of fun today. My goddaughters came over today and I’m 19 and I’m not always in the mood to entertain children. I was in one of those moods and I thought why not open up Dreamland since they’ve never read it.
We started from page one and I read to them to Chapter 4…which is about 150 pages. I could’ve read on more but my voice died on me. Cuz I wasn’t just reading it…I was performing it. At page 100 they joined me and one read Nastija’s and Nicoles lines and the other read Kiwi’s and the teddy bears.
They are 10 and 8 years old.
At first I wasn’t having fun but by the end of it regardless of my aching throat we were all having tons of fun reading the story. I’ve hooked them on Dreamland now and gave them the address to the site.
Now I’m gonna go drink some warm milk and hope it’ll calm my throat…see it wasn’t that bad but when I got to the pirates…their voices really killed my throat.
Anywho thanks again…this is going to become a tradition now when they come over again. Great writing as always, and congratulations on somehow amazingly making a story that is fun to read for both kids and adults.
I’ve been reading DC for awhile….I just wanted to say it grew on me though initially i was turned off by the way it seemed to be targeted for only young uns. But I guess in the end we’re all children at heart 😉
Also, I think there is typo on panel 2: “you’re holding” is repeated twice.
Haha I like this one 🙂 Not sure why. Probably because it’s so easy to imagine the awkwardness of the situation…
And yeah sf is right. I hadn’t even noticed the repetition till you pointed it out. Eyes skimmed right over it.
Michelle…
Thanks. I’m flattered. And thanks for the link to the other creator. I’ll look into it.
Vincent…
Sorry about your voice. But so happy you lost it that way.
🙂
Thank you so much for doing that and thank you for letting me know.
That’s just too cool.
SF and Nick…
Thanks for catching that. I really appreciate it.
You guys are all such great editors.
Scott,
You know… in the event you couldn’t make it to one in your area, you could ALWAYS come over to Nebraska and hang with me at krypton comics on May 3rd…lol.
See ya later man and good luck.
Jon