Basically, I live in Gibraltar and we don’t have Free Comic Book Day. Actually we don’t even have a comic book shop, or comics at all for that matter.
I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to pick up an issue of The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and the Spider-Man issue, and hey, anything else you’d be kind enough to pick up (but The Umbrella Academy is the one I really really want) and mail it to me? I know America is a long way away but maybe there’s a few UK fans in here?
I’d be happy to send you a cheque covering postage and I’ll even throw in some free comics from my collection, I’m sure there’s something in there you would like.
CBQers will definitely keep our eyes open for these, and send them to you in exchange for a video of the most recent episode of Gibralter’s Next Top Model.
this is my first Free Comic Book day that I’m not working and can actually go to. The chain Graham Cracker here has different ones in all the Chicagoland locations…lesse how froggy I feel tomorrow and how many stores I can hit…
The marking of it on my calender caused lots of conversations tho at work…
Hey, that’s not that terrible compared to “you READ?!” that I get at work.
My sister’s boyfriend laughed at me yesterday cos I bought Superman 2 on dvd. He walked into my room the other day and the conversation went like this…seriously:
him: what’s that you’re reading?
me: a comic
him: a what?
me: a comic
him: whats that?
me: like a book. with pictures.
him: .... .... .....oh! cool.
Hey, did anybody pick up the Lynda Barry Activity Book free comic? AMAZING!
The Lynda Barry book was the main reason I went to the store in the first place. And I think I started freaking out because I couldn’t find it. But all was well once I located it. She’s my hero.
She’s a cartoonist and writer. She has a strip called Ernie Pook’s Comeek and she also wrote one of my all-time favorite books called THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME. She’s amazing and I’ve been a huge fan of hers for years.
And from the useless information dept: I met my partner Ken through a personal ad I placed, 10,000 years ago. In the ad, I mentioned that I liked Lynda Barry. He had never heard of her and reading that in a personal ad made him both curious about me and her. So I owe my marriage to Lynda Barry.
We’re going to be talking about indie stuff a little bit more this season, and I’m just going to gush and gush about Lynda Barry, and probably insert one of her spoken word pieces into our ‘cast. I LOVE her. Marlys totally rules.
We’re going to be talking about indie stuff a little bit more this season, and I’m just going to gush and gush about Lynda Barry, and probably insert one of her spoken word pieces into our ‘cast. I LOVE her. Marlys totally rules.
I adore her album THE LYNDA BARRY EXPERIENCE. I’ve made copies of it for a lot of my friends. I urge everyone to track it down.
God, I love her so much. She’s doing a writing workshop in Madison Wisconsin in June that I would pretty much kill to attend, but it just sold out in the last couple of days. “Hmm, I wonder why,” he said bitterly.
