Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. Comic book stores throughout the area will be handing out copies of comics that were published for the express purpose of being given away. To see a list of the free comics and to find a participating store near you, click here.
The nation's largest Free Comic Book Day event, the fourth annual Comics and Pop-Culture Expo, will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Zeus Comics and at nearby Craddock Park. Guests include World War Hulk writer Greg Pak, Wonder Woman writer Gail Simone and Marvel Zombies writer Robert Kirkman. For more details on this free event, click here.
In addition to those big names, a number of local comics creators will be at CAPE selling their wares. David Hopkins will debut Mine All Mine, a mini-comic full of one-page vignettes on stealing, each illustrated by a different artist; Josh Howard recently completed Dead@17: Compendium Edition, collecting every issue of his epic story of undead teenagers; and Kris Straub just published a collection of the first two years of his online strip, Starslip Crisis.
Keith's Comics will be having a grand opening of its new North Dallas location, and Fat Momma, one of the competitors on Stan Lee's Who Wants to be a Superhero?, will be there. For more details, click here.
Lone Star Comics will give $250 worth of age-appropriate graphic novels to the four schools that send the most students to one of their seven area stores Saturday. For more details on the contest, call 214-823-0934. To find their stores, click here.
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