Free Comic Book Day
May 3, 2008

Free Comic Book Day is a special event held each year at participating comic book shops in North America and the world. On this day shops will have a special stash of comics to give out for free! Marvel, DC, Image, and other companies participate in this including several that will be giving out manga related items.

To interest of anime and manga fans:

Shonen Jump Sampler – FCBD 2008
A 32 page sampler with previews of Naruto, Bleach, & Slam Dunk, and coverage of many other titles.

Gegika: A Drawn+Quarterly Manga Sampler – FCBD 2008
This sampler will have excerpts from Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s Good-Bye and Seiichi Hayashi’s Red Colored Elegy. If you read titles like Abandon the Old in Tokyo and MW you already know what you in for, but if you have never experienced the dark world of Gegika manga now is great chance to.

OEL Titles

Neotopia Volumes 1-3 pocket manga – FCBD 2008
Creator Rod Espinosa (The Courageous Princess) is offering three volumes his all-ages fantasy sci-fi epic Neotopia.

Maximum Ride Volume 1 - FCBD
First a book now a manga James Patterson's Maximum Ride is being offered by Yen Press.



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