Press Release
Free Comic Book Day 2015 Gold Sponsor Comic Books Announced
This year’s Gold Sponsor comic book lineup features twelve top-notch titles for fans!
The Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) Committee has selected the twelve Gold Sponsor comic book titles for the comic book industry’s most anticipated annual event, Free Comic Book Day. FCBD takes place every year on the first Saturday in May at participating comic book shops worldwide with next year’s event taking place on May 2nd, 2015.
The comics were carefully chosen by comic shop retailers on the FCBD Selection Committee and feature something for everyone from superheroes, to action-adventure, and all-ages favorites. The Gold Sponsor publishers include Archie Comics, Bongo Comics, BOOM! Studios, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Marvel Comics, Titan Comics, United Plankton Publications and Viz Media.
“We are extremely excited about the quality and diversity of the Gold level comic books that comic shops will be giving away for this year’s event on May 2nd,” said FCBD spokesperson, Deborah Moreland. “The Gold Sponsors are comprised of top publishers in the comics industry and we are confident that fans will be pleased with this year’s line-up of comics. Whether you’ve been a fan for years or you’re just getting into comics because you love the movies, TV shows and video games based on comics, then Free Comic Book Day and your local comic shop have the perfect comic for you!”
The FCBD Silver Sponsor comic books announce next Wednesday, December 17th. A complete listing of all fifty FCBD titles, including the twelve Gold Sponsor comic books and thirty-eight Silver Sponsor comic books, can be found in the January issue of Diamond Comic Distributors’ PREVIEWS catalog, on sale at all comic book shops December 24th, 2014.
For more FCBD news and updates visit www.freecomicbookday.com and become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/freecomicbook and follow on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/freecomicbook.
Free Comic Book Day 2015: Gold Comics
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS| DARK CIRCLE COMICS PREVIEW
BONGO COMICS| 2014 BONGO COMICS FREE-FOR-ALL
BOOM! STUDIOS| BOOM! STUDIOS TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
DARK HORSE COMICS| FIGHT CLUB/ THE GOON/ THE STRAIN
DC COMICS| TBA
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT| BOB’S BURGERS
IDW PUBLISHING| TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE #0
IMAGE COMICS|SAVAGE DRAGON: LEGACY #1
MARVEL COMICS| SECRET WARS
TITAN COMICS| DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL
UNITED PLANKTON PICTURES|SPONGEBOB FREESTYLES FUNNIES
VIZ MEDIA/ PERFECT SQUARE| POKÉMON
Free Comic Book Day 2015
Gold Level Sponsors
Archie Comic Publications
Dark Circle COMICS PREVIEW—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W) Duane Swierczynski, Mark Waid, Dean Haspiel, Various
(A) Michael Gaydos, Dean Haspiel, Various (CA) Francesco Francavilla
THE BLACK HOOD! THE FOX! THE SHIELD! Get in on the ground floor of Dark Circle Comics and experience the cinematic and creator-driven reinventions of these iconic properties. Who is the new Shield? How did the Black Hood come to be? Can things get more unpredictable for The Fox? Learn the secrets of the Dark Circle universe from the creators themselves via sneak peeks at the new series, creator interviews and a first glance at the next Dark Circle series — all held together by an eye-popping cover from Afterlife with Archie artist, Francesco Francavilla!
32pgs, FC FREE!
Bongo Comics
Bongo Comics Free-for-All!—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W/A) Matt Groening, Various
Get in line for the foremost Free Comic Book Day four-color giveaway of the year! When Bart brings one of Professor Frink’s recent discoveries to school, it leads to some hair-raising hilarity! Then, Lisa finds a doorway to an ancient past, Comic Book Guy gets a hip new girlfriend, and Homer tries his hand at some home improvement... and much more!
32pgs, FC FREE!
Boom! Studios
BOOM! Studios Tenth Anniversary SPECIAL—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W/A) Various (CA) TBD
2015 is BOOM! Studios’ Tenth Anniversary year, and to help us celebrate we’ve gathered short stories from several current and new all-ages titles for Free Comic Book Day. From Archaia’s Mouse Guard, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, and new title Iscariot; KaBOOM!’s Garfield, Peanuts, Regular Show, and a new Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake story; and BOOM! Box’s Lumberjanes, Munchkin, and Help Us! Great Warrior, there’s something in this free, 48-page issue for everyone!
32pgs, FC FREE!
Dark Horse COMICS
Fight Club/The Goon/The Strain—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W) Chuck Palahniuk, Eric Powell, David Lapham
(A) Cameron Stewart, Eric Powell, Mike Huddleston (CA) David Mack
Dark Horse Comic’s most thrilling FCBD to date! Chuck Palahniuk and Cameron Stewart premiere Fight Club! Eric Powell serves up an all-new tragedy in The Goon! And Guillermo del Toro presents an all-new chapter from The Strain! Need we say more?
32pgs, FC FREE!
DC COMICS
DC COMICS GOLD BOOK—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W/A/CA) TBD
A special, Top Secret project too big to announce! Please check back in the February issue of PREVIEWS and at freecomicbookday.com for future updates!
32pgs, FC FREE!
Dynamite Entertainment
Bob's Burgers—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W) Mike Olsen, Justin Hook, Chad Brewster
(A) Brad Rader, Tony Gennaro, Hector Reynoso, Frank Forte
(CA) Frank Forte
Bob's Burgers, the hit TV show created by Loren Bouchard, is now a comic book! The Belcher family — parents Bob and Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, and Louise — appear in this special Free Comic Book Day edition that collects the "Best Of" in-canon stories from Dynamite's first-ever Bob's Burgers comic book series. Thrill to Tina's “Friend Fiction”, Louise's “Unsolved Mysteries and Curious Curiosities”, “Gene Belcher Presents: The Musical”, and more! It's an all-ages extravaganza that captures the feel of Bob's Burgers perfectly — because it's a comic 100% created by show writers and animators!
32pgs, FC FREE!
IDW Publishing
Transformers: Robots in Disguise #0—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W) John Barber, Tom Scioli (A) Priscilla Tramontano, Scioli
(CA) Priscilla Tramontano
Optimus Prime is gone — and Decepticons are on the loose! It’s up to Bumblebee and an elite crew of Autobots to track them down before their rampage spreads across Earth! Transformers comics have never been hotter, and the excitement spreads to this all-original comic inspired by the all-new animated series! Plus: previews of IDW and Hasbro unbelievable publishing slate for 2015, including an exclusive Transformers vs. G.I. Joe strip!
32pgs, FC FREE!
Image Comics
Savage Dragon: Legacy #1—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W/A/CA) Erik Larsen
The generational saga of Savage Dragon reaches a new milestone as Malcom Dragon graduates high school and follows his father’s footsteps to the Chicago Police Department. Every young new officer has a lot to live up to, but for the son of a world famous figure as renowned as he is reviled, navigating the world of law enforcement is especially challenging. The cost of failure is high in a city becoming more dangerous by the day: Can Malcom step out of his father’s shadow and become the hero Chicago needs, or is he doomed to make the same mistakes?
32pgs, FC FREE!
Marvel Comics
SECRET WARS #1—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W/A/CA) TBD
Prepare yourself for the final days of the Marvel Universe as you know it as the march to the biggest comic event of the year continues! From the ashes of a decimated cosmos rises… Battleworld! Amid the strange, patchwork realm, refugees from thousands of obliterated universes struggle for survival. Even if they can endure the horrors of Battleworld — the home they knew has been destroyed! Time has run out, and the opening salvo of Secret Wars has been fired. But can anything restore the Marvel Universe that once was?
32pgs, FC FREE!
Titan Comics
Doctor Who Special—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W) Nick Abadzis, Al Ewing, Various (A) Various
Take a blistering trip through time and space with three stunning all-new short stories featuring the Tenth Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor and the brand-new Twelfth Doctor, written and drawn by the ongoing Doctor Who comics creative teams. PLUS: A sneak peek of the Top Secret Summer 2015 event! Be the first to get a hint of the epic that will shake the Doctor to his very core! It's a must-read for fans, and the perfect primer for anyone looking to jump on board the TARDIS!
32pgs, FC FREE!
United Plankton Pictures
Spongebob Freestyle Funnies—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W/A) Graham Anable, Various (CA) Gregg Schigiel, Rick Neilsen
This year's SpongeBob Comics FCBD offering features a 22-page story by Boxtrolls director and Grickle cartoonist, Graham Annable! In "Tangy!" Plankton's new special sauce made from jellyfish jelly has strange effects on SpongeBob and the rest of Bikini Bottom's residents. The only one unaffected, the only one who can save them all, is a very reluctant Squidward! Plus, more undersea sequential stories by James Kochalka, Maris Wicks, Gregg Schigiel. and other awesome aquatic artists!
32pgs, FC FREE!
VIZ Media/Perfect Square
Perfect Square Presents: PokÉmon—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W) Hidenori Kusaka (A) Various
All your favorite Pokémon game characters jump out of the screen and onto the pages of this action-packed Free Comic Book Day edition comic! Legendary Pokémon Xerneas and Yveltal ‘s battle against each other is destroying Vaniville Town. Can X and Y save the town in Pokémon X*Y?! Bonus Feature: More action in Pokémon Adventures and Pokémon Adventures Black and White!
32pgs, FC FREE!
Replies
2015
Archie Comics – a Gold Sponsor of the event – is proud to announce one of our offerings: FCBD DARK CIRCLE COMICS! Get a sneak peek at the new three all-new series coming from Dark Circle Comics!
Get in on the ground floor of Dark Circle Comics and experience the cinematic and creator-driven reinventions of these iconic properties. Who is the new Shield? How did the Black Hood come to be? Can things get more unpredictable for The Fox? Learn the secrets of the Dark Circle universe from the creators themselves via sneak peeks at the new series, creator interviews and a first glance at the next Dark Circle series – all held together by an eye-popping cover from Afterlife with Archie artist Francesco Francavilla!
Script: Duane Swierczynski, Mark Waid, Dean Haspiel, Adam Christopher, Chuck Wendig and more
Art: Michael Gaydos, Dean Haspiel, David Williams, Rachel Deering, Kelly Fitzpatrick, John Workman, Jose Villarubia and more
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
DARK CIRCLE COMICS JOINS FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2015
Archie Comics – a Gold Sponsor of the event – is proud to announce one of our offerings: FCBD DARK CIRCLE COMICS! Get a sneak peek at the new three all-new series coming from Dark Circle Comics!
DARK CIRCLE COMICS
THE BLACK HOOD! THE FOX! THE SHIELD!
Get in on the ground floor of Dark Circle Comics and experience the cinematic and creator-driven reinventions of these iconic properties. Who is the new Shield? How did the Black Hood come to be? Can things get more unpredictable for The Fox? Learn the secrets of the Dark Circle universe from the creators themselves via sneak peeks at the new series, creator interviews and a first glance at the next Dark Circle series – all held together by an eye-popping cover from Afterlife with Archie artist Francesco Francavilla!
Script: Duane Swierczynski, Mark Waid, Dean Haspiel, Adam Christopher, Chuck Wendig and more
Art: Michael Gaydos, Dean Haspiel, David Williams, Rachel Deering, Kelly Fitzpatrick, John Workman, Jose Villarubia and more
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Press Release
Calling all UDON and Street Fighter fans! UDON is proud to announce that, as a Silver sponsor of Free Comic Book Day 2015 (FCBD 2015), we are offering an all-new action-packed, one-shot Street Fighter comic for FREE on FCBD 2015!
Featuring fan-favorite World Warriors Ryu, Guile, Charlie, Ibuki, C. Viper, and more, this comic has something for fans of every Street Fighter generation and is packed with all the Shoryukens, Sonic Booms, and Seismic Hammers you can handle!
Next year’s Free Comic Book Day will take place on May 2nd, 2015, so make sure to save the date and head out to your favorite comics retailer on FCBD 2015 to pick up your free Street Fighter comic from UDON! For more information on FCBD 2015, including other free comics that are being offered for the 2015 event, visit www.freecomicbookday.com.
Press Release
Free Comic Book Day Full Line-Up of Comic Books Announced
Fifty comics available during Free Comic Book Day; thirty-eight all new Silver comics announced
(BALTIMORE, MD) — The Silver Sponsors for Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) feature a whole new selection of thirty-eight books for the comic book industry’s most anticipated annual event, Free Comic Book Day taking place Saturday, May 2nd at participating comic book shops worldwide.
Retailers on the FCBD Selection Committee chose 50 titles overall, 12 Gold Sponsor Comics and 38 Silver Sponsor comics to provide fans a wide range of stories to choose from as well as new genres and publishers to discover. Titles from this year’s Silver comics include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hip Hop Family Tree, The Tick, Street Fighter, Sonic the Hedgehog, Rabbids, and more.
“The Silver comics provide comic book fans a great opportunity to read original and revamped stories for free, which in turn can open up a diverse world of comics to them as they read these stories for the first time,” said FCBD Spokesperson Deborah Moreland. “The titles offered this year are great for readers of all ages, so there’s something everyone can enjoy. We are sure fans and retailers will be pleased with the line-up and we look forward to hearing about and seeing their Free Comic Book Day experiences.”
A complete listing of all fifty FCBD titles can be found in the January issue of Diamond’s PREVIEWS catalog, on sale at all comic book shops December 24th, 2014. For more FCBD news and updates visit www.freecomicbookday.com and become a fan on Facebook www.facebook.com/freecomicbook and follow on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/freecomicbook.
Free Comic Book Day 2015: Silver Comics
12 GAUGE COMICS| I.C.E.: BAYOU BLACKOUT
ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT| GRONK AND FRIENDS
ANTARTCTIC PRESS| STEAMPUNK GOLDILOCKS
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS| SONIC/MEGA MAN: “WORLDS UNITE” FLIP-BOOK
ASPEN MLT INC. | WORLDS OF ASPEN 2015
AUTOMATIC PUBLISHING| HATTER M: LOVE OF WONDER #1
AVATAR| MERCURY HEAT DEBUT
BEGUILING BOOKS| COMIC FESTIVAL! 2015 #1
CAPSTONE| MARCH GRAND PRIX
CBLDF| DEFEND COMICS
Defend Comics—FCBD 2015 EDITION
(W/A) Larry Marder, Dan Parent and More (CA) Dean Trippe
For over 25 years, the CBLDF has fought to protect your right to read, and that crusade continues with this light-hearted look at a serious topic. DEFEND COMICS is a sampler of the great YA comics available, and explores the censorship of comics with some of today's most talented creators!
32pgs, FC FREE!
CHAPTER HOUSE/CAPTAIN CANUCK| CAPTAIN CANUCK
COMIXTRIBE| AND THEN EMILY WAS GONE #0
DARK HORSE COMICS| AVATAR, PLANTS VS ZOMBIES, BANDETTE
DC COMICS| TBA
DRAWN & QUARTERLY| SUPERMUTANT MAGIC ACADEMY/ STEP ASIDE, POPS!
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS INC.| HIP HOP FAMILY TREE THREE-IN-ONE FEATURING COSPLAYERS
GEMSTONE PUBLISHING| OVERSTREET’S COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE
HERMES PRESS| THE PHANTOM FCBD SPECIAL
IDW PUBLISHING| TMNT: PRELUDE TO VENGANCE
IMAGE COMICS| TALES OF HONOR #0
KODANSHA| KODANSHA COMICS SAMPLER
LEGENDARY COMICS| LEGENDARY COMICS PREVIEW
LIQUID COMICS| GRANT MORRISON’S “STAN LEE’S SHAKRA THE INCREDIBLE”
MARVEL| AVENGERS #1
NEW ENGLAND COMICS| THE TICK
ONI PRESS| TERRIBLE LIZARD #1
PAPERCUTZ| RABBIDS
PAPERCUTZ/SUPER GENIUS| LADY JUSTICE #1
REBELLION| 2000AD SPECIAL
RED 5 COMICS| BODIE TROLL AND FRIENDS
SCHOLASTIC INC. | GRAPHIX SPOTLIGHT: CLEOPATRA IN SPACE TARGET PRACTICE
TH3RD WORLD| THE STUFF OF LEGEND: A CALL TO ARMS PREVIEW
TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS| THE MOTORCYCLE SAMURAI
UDON ENTERTAINMENT| STREET FIGHTER: SUPER COMBO SPECIAL
VALIANT| VALIANT 25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
VIZ MEDIA| SHONEN JUMP PRESENTS: JO JO’S BIZARE ADVENTURE/YU-GI-OH
ZENESCOPE| GRIMM FAIRY TALES PRESENTS: WONDERLAND-ONE SHOT
ZENESCOPE| JURASSIC STRIKE FORCE #5
Free Comic Book Day 2015: Gold Comics
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS| DARK CIRCLE COMICS PREVIEW
BONGO COMICS| 2014 BONGO COMICS FREE-FOR-ALL
BOOM! STUDIOS| BOOM! STUDIOS TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
DARK HORSE COMICS| FIGHT CLUB/ THE GOON/ THE STRAIN
DC COMICS| TBA
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT| BOB’S BURGERS
IDW PUBLISHING| TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE #0
IMAGE COMICS|SAVAGE DRAGON: LEGACY #1
MARVEL COMICS| SECRET WARS
TITAN COMICS| DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL
UNITED PLANKTON PICTURES|SPONGEBOB FREESTYLE FUNNIES
VIZ MEDIA/ PERFECT SQUARE| POKÉMON