{"id":2504,"date":"2009-04-26T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T21:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2009-04-26T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T21:43:17","slug":"its-free-comic-book-day-next-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Free Comic Book Day Next Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=98705686354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2505\" title=\"Comics Festival! 2009, cover by Emmanuel Guibert\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/comicsfestival_finalcover_guibert.jpg\" alt=\"Comics Festival! 2009, cover by Emmanuel Guibert\" width=\"270\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/comicsfestival_finalcover_guibert.jpg 450w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/comicsfestival_finalcover_guibert-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><strong>FREE COMIC BOOK DAY FOR EVERYONE<br \/>\nSaturday, May 2nd, from Noon-5pm<br \/>\n@ The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street, Near Bloor &amp; Bathurst<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, Canada, M6G 2L7<br \/>\nFREE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=98705686354\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=98705686354<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s FREE COMIC BOOK DAY at comic book stores around the world, and that means THE BEGUILING! If you&#8217;ve never been to Free Comic Book Day before, here&#8217;s the deal: Come by The Beguiling on Saturday May 2nd from noon to 5pm, and we&#8217;ll give you a bunch of Free Comic Books! Publishers like Drawn &amp; Quarterly, Fantagraphics, Marvel, and DC, have all produced special new comics just for this occasion, and you&#8217;ll be able to choose to take home, for free!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>IN ADDITION! This year The Beguiling and The Toronto Comic Arts Festival have teamed up to produce a special comic book, COMICS FESTIVAL!, an all-ages comic featuring cartoonists who will be exhibiting at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival&#8230; and many of them will be at our Free Comic Book Day event! This means you can get a free comic book AND get it signed by nearly a dozen cartoonists! Plus many of them will be sketching for fans, autographing books, and selling their own great work!<\/div>\n<div>\nCartoonists participating include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>12pm-3pm<\/strong><br \/>\nKate Beaton, Willow Dawson, CTON (Clayton Hanmer), Jason Kieffer, Ryan North, Ramon Perez, Kean Soo , Tara Tallan, Zach Worton, Chip Zdarsky<\/p>\n<p><strong>2pm-5pm<\/strong><br \/>\nBrian McLachlan, Willow Dawson, Ray Fawkes, Ryan North, Zach Worton, Chip Zdarsky<\/p>\n<p>For more on Last Year&#8217;s Free Comic Book Day Event at The Beguiling, check out:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beguiling.com\/2008\/05\/free-comic-book-day-2008-wrap-up.html\">http:\/\/www.beguiling.com\/2008\/05\/free-comic-book-day-2008-wrap-up.html\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re not in Toronto or can&#8217;t visit us for Free Comic Book Day, visit<a href=\"http:\/\/freecomicbookday.com\/\">http:\/\/freecomicbookday.com\/<\/a>\u00a0to find out about Free Comic Book Day events in your town!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>F.A.Q.<br \/>\n1. WHY DO YOU DO THIS? WHAT&#8217;S THE CATCH, COMPADRE!?: Simply, The Beguiling Likes Comics, and The Beguiling Feels You Should Be Reading Comics. So one day a year, we work with the industry to give good comics away to people, in the hopes that they&#8217;ll come back to the store and buy the next one. No purchase necessary, though obviously encouraged.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>2. ARE ALL OF THE COMICS FREE? No. Only the ones we say. They will be clearly marked.<\/div>\n<div>3. RAIN OR SHINE? Rain or shine.<\/div>\n<div>4. HOW MANY FREE COMICS DO I GET?: Probably 5 or so per person. No you cannot have more for people who are not with you.<\/div>\n<div>5. ARE YOU ORDERING ALL OF THE FREE COMICS THAT ARE GOING TO BE AVAILABLE\u00a0ACCORDING TO FREECOMICBOOKDAY.COM?: Yes, but we&#8217;re ordering almost none of the sucky ones, and lots of the good ones. We define &#8220;good&#8221; in this instance. If you&#8217;re looking for a terrible, terrible book, chances are we won&#8217;t have it for you, because no one needs more sucky comics. To quote the Lorax: &#8220;Think of the trees.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>6. CAN I BRING A FRIEND?: Bring all of the friends you have. We&#8217;ve go enough comics to go around.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREE COMIC BOOK DAY FOR EVERYONE Saturday, May 2nd, from Noon-5pm @ The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street, Near Bloor &amp; Bathurst Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6G 2L7 FREE! http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=98705686354 It&#8217;s FREE COMIC BOOK DAY at comic book stores around the world, and that means THE BEGUILING! If you&#8217;ve never been to Free Comic Book Day before, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s Free Comic Book Day Next Weekend!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beguiling","category-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}