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What is happening to Free Comic Book Day under Diamond bankruptcy? (bleedingcool.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/comicbooks

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Free Comic Book Day is owned and run by Diamond Comic Distributors. The company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has seen a number of publishers pull out of Diamond completely as a result. With tariffs threatened on comics published in Canada – which is most of the Free Comic Book Day titles – how will all this affect Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, the 3rd of May? Well, first, the comics have all been printed by now and have been shipped across the border for the USA. That is not an issue, this year around at least. And Diamond Comic Distributors is fully stocked with them, ready to send out to stores if they are still operating as they intended. Copies are meant to arrive in stores in the middle of April before the bankruptcy period is over. Some sites have reported the 1st of April as the bankruptcy cut-off date, but that is wrong. However, some titles available in bundles of ten, twenty, twenty-five or fifty will only be available from Penguin Random House or Lunar Distribution, with singles through Diamond, especially from publishers such as Mad Cave Studios and Vault Comics that recently left Diamond in toto. And DC titles will only be available through Lunar. Here's looking at how and where comic book retailers will have been ordering them;

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

When i sold comics in my game shop i did FCBD once and decided the next year i would skip it. It only brought in moochers for me, people that expected me to give them all of the comics they wanted for free. Or were upset i did not have the free title they wanted. My regulars skipped the day. I ended up dropping comics before the next one rolled around.