{"id":33,"date":"2005-05-04T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=33"},"modified":"2005-05-04T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T01:13:00","slug":"remember-mom-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBER MOM THIS WEEKEND"},"content":{"rendered":"

And how she threw away all your comics when you were a kid by going to your local comic store to celebrate our favorite holiday of the year… FREE COMIC BOOK DAY<\/a> is May 7th!<\/p>\n

Apparently there is some other holiday this weekend too.<\/p>\n

“We know that when we start talking about Free Comic Book Day<\/a> it sounds like we’re talking about Ride A Lucky Dragon Day or Dance the Dance of Magic Dancing Beans Day. Here’s the thing though, Free Comic Book Day is real. It’s a real day when real jolly comic book retailers across the land give free comic books to anyone who goes to their stores.” -Shad Petosky of Big Time Attic<\/a><\/p>\n

And they are giving out some doozies this year… like this one for example:<\/p>\n

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Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edwin Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology<\/strong> fcbd edition<\/p>\n

by Jim Ottaviani<\/a>, Zander Cannon, Kevin Cannon, and Shad Petosky<\/a><\/p>\n

Dinosaurs! Cowboys! Scientists! What more could you ask for? This special FCBD Edition offers a complete short story and tantalizing introduction to the fall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s upcoming graphic novel. In addition to the cowboys, dinosaurs, and villainous men of science Bone Sharps also features the world-renowned artist Charles R. Knight, Chief Red Cloud and hundreds of his Indian braves, the gun-totin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 & gamblin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 professor John Bell Hatcher, and special appearances by the Cardiff Giant, P.T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill Cody, and a supporting cast of rogues & gallants from the Eastern scientific establishment and the Old West. Cover by Mark Schultz<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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There are a bunch of other<\/a> great looking books<\/a> coming out for the holiday… besides Bonesharps I’m particularly looking forward to SUPERIOR SHOWCASE #0 FCBD EDITION, ALTERNATIVE COMICS PRESENTS FCBD ED 2005 EDITION, COMICS FESTIVAL! FCBD EDITION, THE ADVENTURES OF PAUL FCBD EDITION, FUNNY BOOK FCBD EDITION, and KEENSPOT SPOTLIGHT 2005 FCBD EDITION. You can read more about all of these fine, fine, fine looking books on this page.<\/a><\/p>\n

And all for free! How do they do it, you may wonder, wonderingly<\/em>, with a question mark, the way you do. Well, Virginia, you see, Free Comic Day succeeds through the “Spirit of Free Comics.”<\/em> Similar to such spirits as the “Spirit of Christmas”<\/em> in that it spreads joy and good cheer throughout the land by giving, it is also similar to the “Spirit of Crack Dealing”<\/em> in that it operates on the principle “try one for free, and we know that pretty soon you’ll be hooked.”<\/p>\n

There are creator signings coinciding with the event all over the country<\/a>, including at Big Brain Comics<\/a>, where Shad, Zander and Kevin from Big Time Attic will be signing the Bonesharps book… Chris Jones (Batman Strikes) will also be at the event, signing THE BATMAN STRIKES! #1 FCBD EDITION.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And how she threw away all your comics when you were a kid by going to your local comic store to celebrate our favorite holiday of the year… FREE COMIC BOOK DAY is May 7th! Apparently there is some other holiday this weekend too. “We know that when we start talking about Free Comic Book … Continue reading REMEMBER MOM THIS WEEKEND<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}