Today is Free Comic Book Day, an event run usually by Diamond Comic Distributors to make up for all the crap they pull the rest of the year on smaller comic stores and to small publishers and even the big ones. I still haven’t forgotten how they talked a number of big publishers into an exclusive contract and killed Advanced Comics, which was actually a good distributor. However, there’s another killing going on this year, the last year the origin place of Free Comic Book Day is being forced to move.
Joe Field, columnist for Comics And Games Retailer first proposed the event in 2001, with the first event happening the following year and now takes place on the first Saturday in May. He’s also the owner of Flying Colors Comics in Concord, California. Well, the owners of the property his story is currently located wants to replace his store with a bagel shop and is keeping the landlord from renewing his lease. I guess they just really like bagels or really hate comics. Possibly both. It’s a sad bit of news, but this may be his last Free Comic Book Day unless he finds a new locale for his store. Kind of a jerk move.
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