Free Comic Book Day

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I’ll be celebrating Free Comic Book Day here in Australia, so I hope to see some of you Sydneysiders at Kinokuniya on May 5. (Also known as MY BIRTHDAY.)

This is the first time I’ll be a guest at an FCBD, thanks to my first ever graphic novel, Shay’s Story.

I’ll be at Kinokuniya from 11AM to 4PM, in the Artists’ Alley.

Here’s the FaceBook page for the event, and here are the details:

Kinokuniya Bookstore
Lvl 2, The Galeries, 500 George Street
Sydney, NSW 2000

Saturday, May 5, 2012
10AM-7PM

ARTISTS’ ALLEY, 11am – 4pm
A great opportunity to meet some of our best local comic artists and writers.

COSPLAY COMPETITION
We’re looking for the best Comic/Manga, Undead and Gothic Lolita costumes for both adults and kids. More details will be provided closer to the date.

See you there.

132 thoughts on “Free Comic Book Day”

  4. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DIDN’T REALIZE THIS WAS HERE I COULD HAVE GOTTEN NUMBER ONE!!!!! CURSE YOU RUE!!!!!! Sorry. I actually posted “can’t wait for tommorows FAF!” WHILE THIS WAS SUTTING RIGHT HERE.

  11. Oops… I meant, YAAAAAAAAYYYYY TTTEEEENNNN!!!!!! I wasn’t thinking. I just assumed that was nine. BUT I GOT TEN!!!! YAAAYYYY! *does happy dance*

  12. Hello anyone who is going to comment on this FAF! (Was this even a FAF? There was no fan art.. or at least I didnt see any.)

  25. I so wish I lived in Australia right now /:

    Heyyyyyy Mr. Westerfeld you should like, you know mail me a free copy???(:
    Waddayah say??(:
    Pretty pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaasssseeee!!!!(:

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  30. As long as you were onlne, You could have posted FAF.
    *pouts*

    Actaully, this sounds fun. I was we had this in America.

  32. May 5th is my birthday too! Glad to see that I share a birthday with the most brilliant author of all time!!!!!!!!!

  33. Hello people! I FINALLY GOT A BROWNIE!!!!! My school had a bake sale and I bought one. YYYAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!

  34. My friend who didn’t give a crap about Leviathan a few days ago is now suddenly interested in it! She said that Alek is fun to stare at…. Awkward. But hooray for LAG!!!!! (Leviathan Awareness Group)

  35. Actually, Alek is kinda fun to stare at. I have an epic pic of him that I like to look at… So yes, it is fun.

  38. Hello again! Does anyone here actually UNDERSTAND the theory of relativity? As in E=mc2? I sorta get it… but not really. I know, you’re probably thinking :”What does Einstien have to do with Scott Westerfield?”. But I just wanted to know. Even my science teacher dosen’t understand it!

  39. Does anybody like Wendy Mass? I like “Eleven Birthdays” and “Every Soul a Star”. Oh, and has anybody heard of the book “A Taste for Red” which is by… I can’t remember. But it’s a good book. It’s like a vampire novel, but better. It’s also very quirky and moody, which I like. But, since it’s not really “average”, not many people have heard of it.

  40. You know, everyone thinks that it’s BOVRIL who tries on Malone’s mustache. BUT IT’S NOT! It’s actually Barlow’s lorus! I don’t mean to be a killjoy, cuz everyone wants it to be Bovril, but look at the picture. Barlow’s lorus has a white patch on its tummy, as shown in the pic, and Bovril has a stripe running from its head to its leg. GET UR LORUSES STRAIGHT PEOPLE!!!!

  41. @38: I think it just means there is a lot of energy to a small amount of mass and that they (mass and energy) are interchangeable.

  42. @40: A lot of us have said that on FAFs with the mustached loris, but it’s sort of been a traditional mistake.

  44. I sorta wish it was Bovril with the mustache. Bovrils epic-er than Barlows loris. (I keep spelling it lor-US! Darn iPod!)

  49. Random Faces!: 0•0 ‘=’ o+o ._. ,_, .-. =s O) X( !-! $_$ @_@ p-p r=r 8- 1) |( ^*^ *_* x_x -.- •<• £_£ 4-4 Does anyone like them? Oh yea! One more! ?-?

  52. Hi! Fellow author (and fan!) K.J.Taylor here! I loved your Uglies series. In fact, after I read the first one (courtesy of our fellow author and my good friend Jack Heath, who gave me a copy for my birthday), I had so many recurring dreams about what might happen in the sequel that I rushed off to buy it at once!

    Anyway, I just thought you’d be amused to know that “Youngblood” is also a brand of cosmetics. Assuming you get to read this comment, but I suppose fellow commenters would be amused to know it too!

  53. Happy Birthday Scott!!!!
    I wish that I could afford a plane ticket to Australia but unfortunately, that is out of the question. (well out of my parent’s question, not mine. Does that even make sense? That’s a strange saying… out of the question. There never even was a question.)

  56. Why are most electronic sooo long? Stupid Pandora won’t let me skip anymore songs. I hate that!

  59. Person w/ hat do u like electronic songs? I love them!!!! Owl City does some really good ones.

  60. Hmmm… is anyone awake or do you have better things to do than sit here hoping for someone to post a comment?

  62. Yay! Middy Joe. Yes I sorta like electronic songs. I mostly like alternative stuff ( Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys)

  63. @61 Why thank you… sayings with no meanings are on my pet peeve list ( they are not aggreivating to make it onto my hate list though)

  64. My mom is in ALA, do I get to go to the conferences sometimes, but not usually. In 2015, there is going to b one in SF, which is near where I live, so I am definitely going to get to go. But I’m going to feel really cheated if Scott isn’t there, cuz I have to wait three years.

  66. Have u ever looked yourself up on google? I have, and I got a match that was actually me! It was a PowerPoint that I did in fourth grade.

  68. @64 Woah… I don’t know if I will even get to see Scott in person. Maybe cuz doesn’t he live in NY half of the year? I live 4 hours north of there…

  69. @66 hasn’t everyone? All it comes up with for me is some hotel that is the same as my last name.

  70. I have a burning question! when will the both the novel and non-novel s3krit projects be relvealed?!? i’m dying to know! it has been more than a month since it was announced that the s3krit project will be released in a month. i hope you will tell us soon. and happy 15 days early birthday! ( i’m pretty sure i counted that right…)

  71. I do wish you would reveal the s3krit projects. Well happy early birthday Scott-la, have a virtual dancer.
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  72. I’m back! Who missed me? I went on a backpacking trip and I got BTSS. That is, Blisters, Tired, Sunburnt, and Sore. And, as a TOTAL yet AWESOME coincendince, I met my friend who just happened to be rock climbing around where we were hiking. And she’s not just any old friend- she’s also a Wester-fan! She read Uglies.

  73. I am like switching back and forth between last weeks FAF and this week’s. Why can’t we all just choose one and comment on that? Then it would be a whole lot easier.

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  76. Man!!!! That was SUPPOSED to spell “Westerfield”, but it’s all wacky. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HARD THAT WAS!!!!! And to think that I forgot that the comments are all “compacted” or whatever it’s called!

  77. I’m really sad now… My beautiful piece of art now looks like really complicated Morse code!!!! :'(

  83. You know I always get Spagbol and Steampunk Jedi mixed up… I don’t know WHY, I just do.

  87. Has anybody read “Love, Ruby Lavender” or “Each Little Bird That Sings” by Deborah Wiles? Each Little Bird That Sings is really sad.

  89. Greetings,
    to one and all. I do not comment much, so forgive any “Rules of Commenting” that I obliviously break- I swear in my honor I had no intention of doing so.
    “Ahem.”
    Now then I would like to officially start this post by saying: Happy Birthday Maestro Westerfeld- and if your birthday is not satisfactory then you should get a refund for May 5, by which I mean that The Office of Miscellaneous Holidays should have it’s Birthday Investigative Association do a thorough look at your birthday. To those of you who say “BLASPHEMY! No such organization exists!”
    I say,”Are you truly so sure?” for in the past we have found things said to be nonexistent. In an effort to keep this short (which I have obviously not done considering that the little scroll bar has appeared on me and I can not see a squick of what I have typed above) I will simply state my opinion the matter of Free Comic Book Day- it is an absobloodylutely grandiose idea. Truly a shame that America does not have such a day.
    Now I bid you all Adieu.
    -Emo

  95. Middy Joe, you got the last 100. You deserved it because you didn’t even notice it was 100.

  99. I am posting too quickly. I need to sloooooow down, but I can’t! You can’t slow down in a race!

  103. @95-But YOU didn’t “not realize” that you got 100! (yes, confusing double negatives, I know) so it wouldn’t make a difference if I got this 100!!!!!
    ¡No me gusta Person With Hat!

  104. Oh yeah I got another brownie today! And, speaking of baked goods, I drew a picture of Bovril with a cookie! And, to make things even better, We Are Young is on the radio again! YYYAAAYYYYY!!!!!!

  106. Oh poor Middy Joe… You could go for 200! Me gusta and no me gusta is about the only spamish my useless spanish teacher taught us…

  107. Ha ha! Spamish! That should be the Monty Python Language! Damn these infernal ipod keyboards! Why does everyone leave right before I get here?

  109. Happy Birthday! 🙂

    I don’t live in Australia but… Here in Singapore, Kinokuniya is the ONLY bookstore which sells ANY of your books. Sad too see that 🙁 There’s only 1 Kinikuniya, in the city area… none of the smaller chains carry any of your books 🙁

    Sadly, even Kinoyunika was out of stock of the Hardcover Leviathan trilogy, and only a softcover with a really odd cover variant. Well, I ended up ordering it from the US on Amazon, and i still saved $10 per book. XD

  110. omg the funniest thing happend! my skool was havin a book fair and ther iin the grapic novel section i saw “Uglies: Shay’s story” i was like “OMG THEy ACTUALLY HAVE IT HERE!”

  111. I suddenly remembered about how I asked you (Scott) if you would post the “bonus chapter” to Peeps and that you said yes…. So, uh, yeah.

  112. Has anybody heard of Hatsune Miku??? @The Future Mrs.Len Kagamine ado you mean Len as in Rin and Len the Vocaloids?

  114. Oh, I LOVE The Quest for the holy grail lol! Science teachers actually do not know the average land speed of a european swallow. Or if they could carry a coconut…

  120. You’ve got to see them!!! It is something I require all my friends to do and now whenever anyone needs a name for a pet we suggest either Lemming of the BDA or Bovril!

  125. SCOTT!!! I WAS READING THIS BOOK CALLED “SHIP BREAKER” AND I TURNED IT AROUND AND GUESS WHAT WAS ONT THE BACK? A REVIEW WRITTEN BY YOUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  129. I’m doing homework right now… Or, at least, I’m SUPPOSED to be doing homework. I guess going on the Westerblog counts as homework?

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