{"id":4736,"date":"2010-04-28T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2010-04-27T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T20:58:29","slug":"free-comic-book-day-saturday-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/4736","title":{"rendered":"Free Comic Book Day: Saturday, May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a break from all your papers and tests? Want something fun to read? You&#8217;re in luck! <strong>Saturday, May 1<\/strong> is <strong>Free Comic Book Day<\/strong>! Just walk into any participating comic book store and pick yourself up a free comic! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecomicbookday.com\/\">Free Comic Book Day<\/a> is an annual event that takes place the first Saturday in May. Shops around the world take part. But, not every store that sells comics will hand you a free one on Saturday. Only stores participating in the event will do so. Luckily, there is an easy-to-use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecomicbookday.com\/index.asp\">shop locator service<\/a> on the Free Comic Book Day home page where you can look up these stores in your area.<\/p>\n<p>To find out what comics are available for free, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecomicbookday.com\/comics.asp\">title list<\/a> on the Free Comic Book Day web site. For more information about the event, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecomicbookday.com\/faqs.asp\">FAQ<\/a> section of the site.<\/p>\n<p>The Andersen Library also has a growing selection of graphic novels available for checkout, and they&#8217;re free all year &#8217;round! Try a quick keyword search on <strong>&#8220;graphic novels&#8221;<\/strong> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/searchBasic\">library catalog<\/a> to see a list of some of the titles available, or mosey on over to the Graphic Novels section on the main floor of the Library and browse through the collection. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a break from all your papers and tests? Want something fun to read? You&#8217;re in luck! Saturday, May 1 is Free Comic Book Day! Just walk into any participating comic book store and pick yourself up a free &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/4736\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1911,220,621],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-comic-books","tag-fun-stuff","tag-graphic-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4760,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions\/4760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}