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.

Definitely, this is going to be an annual tradition to some selected bookshops in the Philippines as Comic Odyssey had made this a consistent event in promoting their store since 2007. This is not the first time FCBD has been organised in the country. There was a former shop in Quezon City who had organised this event going back to 2002. Surely, there will be other shops out there who will follow in their footsteps, and Fullybooked is one of the big bookstores that is making an effort eventhough their library of graphic novels is their primary market compared to single issues that a regular comic shop sell each month.