Anyone else have a program like this at their library? This is from an email sent by the town:
Library Celebrates Free Comic Day - May 5
Saturday, May 5, is National Free Comic Book Day. Many comic stores around the
country are celebrating by giving out free comic books to everyone who comes to
their stores. Thanks to the generosity of Eye Opener Comics in Newington, the Faxon
branch of the West Hartford Public Library will have a limited supply of free comic
books to hand out to patrons on Saturday. Comic books will be available to all
children and teens that visit the library on a first-come basis and will be limited
to one to a person.After getting your free comic book, be sure to check out the rest of the library’s
collection — including all of our graphic novels and manga titles. For more
information, please call the Teen Services office at 561-6996.
That’s pretty cool. Many graphic novels are truly works of literature in their own right and deserve a place in the library.
May 4th, 2007 at 7:17 am
I don’t know if all libraries do this, but I do know that 3 book stores in the area are going to do this for the whole weekend. DC, Marvel and the rest of the comic book publishers have done a good job of promoting this.
On the same note, I remember the first free comic book day, and I still remember watching a young boy get his first Superman and Spiderman comics (for free!). DC and Marvel did a great job that year of getting the “stars of comics” out that year and again this year. Anyone else think it wasn’t coincidence that Spiderman 3 opens this weekend?
May 10th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
newsletters tk u much