Free Comic Book Day Archives : The Shared Universe https://www.theshareduniverse.com/tag/free-comic-book-day/ The Internet's Bay Bridge connecting the Bay Area's comic fandom. Sun, 28 Apr 2019 14:50:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Bay Area Comic Shop Hop https://www.theshareduniverse.com/bay-area-comic-shop-hop/ https://www.theshareduniverse.com/bay-area-comic-shop-hop/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2019 01:59:04 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=2814 The Bay Area’s Comic Art Museum is launching a “Comic Shop Hop” in conjunction with Free Comic Book Day on May 4. The Fisherman’s Wharf based museum has created a passport that can be stamped as participants travel to comic shops around the Bay Area who are taking part in the annual day celebrating comic […]

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]]> San Francisco Comic Book Trail – What Is It? https://www.theshareduniverse.com/san-francisco-comic-book-trail-what-is-it/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:53:47 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1451 The Bay Area is lucky to have more than a dozen comic shops within a 20-mile radius. We’ve split a bulk of those shops into two trails: The San Francisco Comic Book Trail and the East Bay Comic Book Trail. Now you can treat comic book shopping like a pub crawl! This map is especially […]

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]]> Free Comic Book Day 2016: The East Bay Comics Trail https://www.theshareduniverse.com/free-comic-book-day-2016-the-east-bay-comics-trail/ Thu, 12 May 2016 15:09:41 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1060 We started with a simple question: Can we feasibly hit every comic shop in Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley in one-day? After mapping a number of potential routes it was determined “maybe, but unlikely, and we’ll probably die.” It would have been a case of quantity over quality. What would be the point of rushing into […]

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]]> FCBD 2016: JC Lee signing at Amazing Fantasy https://www.theshareduniverse.com/fcbd-2016-jc-lee-signing-at-amazing-fantasy/ Sun, 01 May 2016 22:32:56 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1042 On Free Comic Book Day 2016, Amazing Fantasy, 650 Irving Street in San Francisco, will feature a signing opportunity with Stan Lee’s daughter JC Lee. The Marvel co-founder’s daughter has published a memoir called Stan Lee’s Love Story which explores what it was like growing up with the creator. Helping Amazing Fantasy promote the May 7 event is […]

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]]> FCBD2016: Sam Sattin and Chris Koehler signing at Mission https://www.theshareduniverse.com/fcbd2016-sam-sattin-and-chris-koehler-signing-at-mission/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:00:39 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1023 Mission: Comics and Art, 2250 Mission Street in San Francisco, will celebrate Free Comic Book Day by hosting a signing with Chris Koehler and Sam Sattin. Koehler and Sattin have created the most recent entry into the dystopian, animist genre of comics: Legend. In an interview with Comics Alliance, Sattin described Legend as “What if a biological […]

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]]> FCBD2016: Kate Leth signing at Fantastic Comics https://www.theshareduniverse.com/fcbd2016-kate-leth-signing-at-fantastic-comics/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:00:53 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1009 I have a feeling this is going to come out all wrong. [incoming run-on-sentence] You know that thing where you start following a creator on Tumblr or DeviantArt or in some random forum somewhere and maybe you bought one of their early pieces of art and then all of a sudden that person is getting […]

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