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Triple threat Eisner Award Winning Writer Bill Willingham reads & autographs books @ Night Flight Comics Friday-May 27th @ our Cottonwood Mall location 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Saturday-May 28th @ our Library Square location 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm |
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FCBD all over the SL valley—@ 28 city & county libraries as well as both our stores. Thanks to everyone who helped make it work this year! |  |
 Friday afternoon—Salt Lake County Senior Librarian Patricia Foster in front of the Kearns Library with Bill Willingham. Patricia Foster arranged with Night Flight to have Bill Willingham read one of his Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight stories and one of his Eisner Award winning Fables for attending library patrons. Photos by Mimi Cruz |
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Patricia worked with Night Flight Comics to supply 19 county libraries with FREE Comic Book Day Batman Strikes #1 comic books.
In turn, Night Flight worked with Bob Wayne and Vince Letterio at DC Comics for extra FCBD Batman Strikes promotional posters so all participating libraries [city and county] and the Cottonwood Mall could have posters at each location. A valiant supporter of literacy, Patricia Foster has been great to work with us to distribute Free Comic Book Day comics to all her county libraries in Utah for five years running. Thanks Patricia! |
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Free Comic Book Day for Utah is supported by 28 local city and county libraries. All participating libraries hung FCBD posters on their entrance doors as well as inside each location to help announce the event.  The Cottonwood Mall displayed FCBD posters and ran a prize wheel for kids to win extra goodies provided by Night Flight Comics. |
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| Bill Willingham kicks off FCBD reading two of his comic books to library patrons in the 320 seat auditorium at The City Library where Night Flight Comics @ Library Square is located.
Colleen McLaughlin, Matt McLain, Elizabeth King & Aleko Campos from The City Library worked with Night Flight Comics to make Free Comic Book Day and Bill Willingham's visit run smoothly and include everyone. |
 DC Comics provided Free copies of Day of Vengeance posters to all who stopped by for the merriment. Bill Willingham provided the autographs! |
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| Night Flight Comics, the first comic book store to locate at a library, opened with The City Library @ Library Square on February 8th 2003.
Since opening, Library Square has become the second largest tourist attraction in the state of Utah with 3 million visitors annually. |
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The Dark Knight made a brief appearance to read a Batman comic story in The Children's Library.
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 Photos by Alan Carroll |
Willingham Fleeces Fans on FCBD for Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
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| Saturday night, after reading two of his comics in The City Library Auditorium and autographing books for fans, Bill Willingham volunteered his time to teach Fables fans how to play Texas Hold'em. In an effort to be inclusive the game was kept low stakes with 100% of donations going to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. [CBLDF] | We had a game table for 8 set up and there were always one or two people waiting to get into the game. The chips were .25¢ | .50¢ | $1.00 to start so most anyone could buy in for $10.00 knowing 100% of their dough was going to the CBLDF. $308.00 in donations were collected between 8:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. | Bill did pretty good all night long. First place went to Matt McLain and second place went to Josh Perez. Winners earned a very rare variant edition of Fables courtesy of the wonderful folks at DC Comics, [Thank You Bob & Vince] and all winners earned ULTRA RARE Elemental original artwork by Bill Willingham himself. |
A big fat "Thank You" to Bill Willingham, all the librarians who helped,
An extra large "Thank You" to Bill Morrison.
JP Swain from the Cottonwood Mall,
Bob Wayne and his crew at DC Comics for providing all the extras to make
Free Comic Book Day bigger than ever in the state of Utah!
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