KRAKATHOOOOM!! Free Comic Book Day Is Soon Upon Us Once Again!

Annual giveaway of popular sequential art stirs area interest, desire

"...players (and many of the minor ones) in the comic-book industry flood the shelves with special issues for Free..."

May 3, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

It's Free Comic Book Day

The where, what and how of comic collectors' favorite Saturday

"...in May on their calendar, because it's Free Comic Book Day. No, really. Today is the day that comic..."

May 5, 2012 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

First, Free Comic Book Day, and Then – Ka-Baam!!

Comic books and comedy improv go hand in hand, sometimes with repulsor rays

"...to get something for free. How about a comic book? How about several comic books? How about almost as..."

May 2, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Free Comic Book Day: Local Stores, Local Artists

Austin and beyond, where to get your free comic books Saturday

"...So we're counting down the seconds until Free Comic Book Day begins: The annual opportunity to immerse yourself, free..."

May 4, 2013 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Comic Book Day: Picking Through The Shelves

The annual graphic giveaway is this weekend, so what should you pick up?

"...that May 4 marks the 11th annual Free Comic Book Day, the yearly celebration of graphic story telling when..."

May 3, 2013 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Michelle Tea Brings Her Latest Book to UT

Iconic queer memoirist reflects on her past and future writing career

"...I wanted them all to live together in one book. Frankly, I thought it would be an easy, lazy..."

Oct. 24, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

A Local Pick for Free Comic Book Day

Creators of Punchline offer a super-powered narrative

"...quite happily, with dozens and dozens of free comic books...."

May 1, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Book Tour Confidential

"...illustration by Nathan Jensen..."

May 21, 1999 Books Feature by Carol Dawson

Book Woman Fights Back

If "things don't return to the normal pattern by the end of the year, then I think we would have to re-evaluate," says Book Woman's Susan Post. "But we're not going to take out a loan, we're going to have a benefit! It's like we're in the hospital and we have some hospital bills, and our friends are going to help us pay them." She's talking about Sunday's Independents Jam, about which you can find out more here.

"...the Schlosser Development Project and its planned tenants Borders Books & Music and potentially Best Buy -- where you'd..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Storytelling, a Book Trail, Markets, and More Arts Events

Get reading, go shopping, or just enjoy a gala this week

"...even a watermelon!   – Kat McNevins Austin Texas Book Trail..."

April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Free Comic Book Day

Nine years in, the annual event is winning big crowds and new comics readers

"...picture debut. The people who make and sell comic books had no way of knowing whether the public's interest..."

April 30, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas (Cook)Book Festival

Melissa Guerra: Culinary entrepreneur

"...Dishes From the Wild Horse Desert is her second book. It delivers an informative compendium of authentic recipes complemented..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Grunge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Seger, The Rolling Stones, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

'Picture book of people with each other'

"..."Picture book, pictures of your mama taken by your papa a..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

How to Market a Book All Stealth-Like

Michener grad benefits from bizarro product placement

"...Rust... right smack in the middle of another author's book. Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, who shares an agent with..."

Jan. 28, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Free Comic Book Day 2013

The 11th giveaway of four-color fun runs the gamut from 'Archie' to 'The Walking Dead'

"...across the continent on Saturday signal that Free Comic Book Day is no longer a dicey gambit at building..."

May 3, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Magic' Game Day at the Dragon's Lair

"...inaugural Magic Game Day, a daylong event hosted in comic-book stores, gaming stores, and hobby shops around the city,..."

July 16, 2007 Sports Post by Sofia Resnick

Bedside Manner

Strip mall apocalypse

"...Other than perusing book stores and occasionally the semi-annual Austin Record Convention, shopping..."

March 5, 2012 Books Post by Jay Trachtenberg

Chain Reaction

In Book Wars, Independent Shops Become Casualties

"...Philip Sansone, CEO of Book People, Austin's largest indie bookstorephotograph by Walt Stoneham..."

Nov. 29, 1996 News Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

The Year in Books

What New Book Did You Most Enjoy in 1998 and Why?

"...Stuart Wade: Kurt Vonnegut's intentionally unfinished farewell Timequake. Nowhere..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Books Feature

A Republic of Indie in a Netflix Nation

How Austin's homegrown video stores are faring against the big red giant

"...Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens starts, and we'll book our flight accordingly.)..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

On the Seventh Day

Judith Shulevitz considers the Sabbath at the Austin Jewish Book Fair

"...Shulevitz's book – a fascinating, invigorating jumble of history, philosophy, and memoir..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Postscripts

Bergstrom Book People

"...moved on to jealousy, jealousy for the fact that book critics rarely, if ever, get to use adjectives like..."

May 28, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Pages And Pages of Free Comics

Flicking through this year's Free Comic Book Day comics

"...What is Free Comic Book Day? Imagine record store day, but for comics. Oh,..."

May 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

Can record stores survive the digital age?

"...that closed Christmas Eve. Since they began with two stores (the South Austin store closed in 2001), you might..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The End of the Tour

Fictional but satisfying portrayal of a David Foster Wallace interview by a Rolling Stone reporter

"...interviews and the last stops on the Infinite Jest book tour...."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crossing the Lines

Women Comic Strippers

"...in Twisted Sisters at the Museum of Modern Art's bookstore and said, `The spotlight is only on you because..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

Borders Is Dead, Long Live Borders Employees

The Internet rallies to help displaced workers

"...The big-box book peddler threw in the towel last week, when it..."

July 24, 2011 Books Post by Matthew Patin

The Beast Wins a Round

Preliminary approval -- but still grave concern -- for two South Austin Supercenters

"...overriding theme. "I can tell you how many drug stores have been closed because of Wal-Mart, how many book..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Book Smart

"...that dealt with the encroachment of the chain, corporate bookstores on the independent bookstores of Austin and elsewhere. I..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Column

Secret Origins: Austin’s Comic Creators

For Free Comic Book Day, we head into the studios and writing rooms of our local sequential art talents

"...depth of its addition to culture with Free Comic Book Day, an event with a perfectly self-explanatory name: Comic..."

May 5, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

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