FCBD 2022 | A Subtle Comeback

Local events have slowly been happening all over Metro Manila. When all hope have been lost, and the least you expected it did happen in its most subtle way. Free Comic Book Day in the Philippines just happen in the month of June 2022 is the most little likely event that everyone thought that was already done. But just like that, an announcement was put up on social media two days prior by local book shop giant Fully Booked has organized their event. It might not be the most eventful it still sent a message to everyone that FCBD is back, and this is was like back in 2009 when they did have this event minus the wild activities.

Comic Odyssey Closes BGC Branch

Comic Odyssey is a well-known and beloved comic shop in the Philippines that has long history going back to the late 1980s in Pasadena, California. Its original store first opened in the early 1990s and it is a family owned business that has slowly grown as the go-to shop for comicbooks fans based in Metro Manila that also established itself from supporting the local scene. The store continues to reach out to support the local art scene and its indie grassroots. In 2012, it expanded in collaboration with Fully Booked, the biggest bookstore in the country. Comic Odyssey opened two branches within the giant bookstore in Bonifacio High Street and in the Alabang. But the later short-lived and the BGC branch was part of Fully Booked until COVID-19 happened.