Supergirl Day | The Maiden of Fandom

The end of June is closing in, but local events like Supergirl Day aren’t celebrated quite as often as most major comic book events like Free Comic Book Day, but it’s always a welcome situation when it is about a comic book character never quite the conversation. The premiere week of the movie Supergirl was the right time for it. In the Philippines, how often do you get something like this compared to the recent event that just wrapped up at SM Mall of Asia, which did not even invite a local comic shop like Comic Odyssey to sell their Supergirl comic books? But this one not only promotes the movie, but also brings in local artists who worked on the books!

FCBD 2024 | 2nd Round with Fully Booked

Free Comic Book Day is an annual gathering of fans, geeks, nerds, and those who can’t get enough of the world of fiction. For some, it is considered “Christmas in May.” It is celebrated every first Saturday of this month. However, since Fully Booked in 2009, they have been organizing this event on the second Saturday instead of what was an intended celebration since 2003. In the Philippines, FCBD goes back to the early days, and it’s not Comic Odyssey that started their tradition, which was in 2007. For Fully Booked, it was always the second Saturday until they collaborated with Comic Odyssey from 2013 to 2019, and for the last time in 2023. This year is a fresh restart for Fully Booked,

Free Comic Book Day by Fully Booked

05.23.2009 - Every year this event is slowly becoming a tradition that Diamond Comics Distributors would support in collaboration with local and comic book shops internationally. On a yearly first Saturday month of May, random free comics will be given away from selected shops participating this year. For this year, the worldwide celebration was held on May 2nd. But one bookstore made their own rules from the annual said date this is due to their own schedule of the books arriving late. Actually, this is the second time since participating last year that they did it, and that was two weeks after the original FCBD Celebration. Unfortunately, Fully Booked store, who gave away random diverse of comic titles earlier can only give One Per Customer as they only got a small amount books for their walk-in customers. But seeing all the plethora of titles splattered in the table shows there are potential to bring in new readers to their store. The colorful artwork with attractive character faces, who would like to read a free comic book today? Surely, this is certainly another event that has been happening in some parts of the world, and clearly it's going to be bigger in the next few years. It is certainly something to look forward to.