FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2025

SATURDAY, 3 May 2025, is Free Comic Book Day! We will have LOTS of free comics to share* AND both Steve Weiner and Dan Mazur (https://www.danmazurcomics.com/) will be on hand to sign sampler copies excerpted from their upcoming graphic biography of WILL EISNER from noon-2pm!!!

* Limit 3 comics per person.

Stephen Weiner has been writing about graphic novels since 1992 and spearheaded the movement to bring graphic novels into public libraries. His books include: Will Eisner: a Comics Biography (with Dan Mazur) 100 Graphic Novels for Public Libraries, The Will Eisner Companion (with N.C. Christopher Couch) Will the Real Will Eisner Please Stand Up & Other Adventures in Comics, The 101 Best Graphic Novels, Faster than a Speeding Bullet: the Rise of the Graphic Novel (with an Introduction by Will Eisner), Analysis of BONE: A Look at the Jeff Smith Graphic Novel Masterpiece, and Hellboy: the Companion. The recipient of the Comic Creator’s Guild award, he is co-editor of the 7-volume series, Graphic Novels: A Critical Survey. His novel, Briandigo’s Dagger, is available from Haverhill House Press. He lives outside of Boston.

Dan Mazur is a cartoonist, editor and comics historian and lifelong Cambridge resident.  His graphic novels include Lunatic and Hannabell Hobb and Her Horrible Heads, and his comics have appeared in many anthologies.. He co-founded the Boston Comics Roundtable and MICE (The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo), and is the editor of the Boston Powers anthology series of Boston-based superhero comics for kids. He is co-author with Alexander Danner of Comics: a Global History, 1968 to the Present. He’s been buying comics at Million Year Picnic since 1974.  

Cover text reads "FREE COMIC BOOK DAY; WILL EISNER; A COMICS BIOGRAPHY; STEPHEN WEINER; DAN MAZUR; PREVIEW OF HIS COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY" and depicts a young man standing on a fire escape looking over New York City. In the sky, there are images of comic book panels.

Amy Chu Signing at the Million Year Picnic

SIGNING WITH AMY CHU!
The Million Year Picnic
Friday, 8 November 2024
4:30-6:30pm

Amy Chu is an award winning multi-genre writer for comics and animation. Her most recent graphic novel is CARMILLA: THE LAST VAMPIRE HUNTER, the sequel to CARMILLA: THE FIRST VAMPIRE (Dark Horse / Berger Books). She contributed to two seasons of the Netflix anime series DOTA: Dragon’s Blood. At DC and Marvel she has worked on popular characters such as Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy, Deadpool, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man, and Iron Man. Known for her contemporary run on the long running sword fantasy Red Sonja, she is also the first woman to write the KISS and GREEN HORNET series. Her graphic novels for children include TURNING RED; TROT & CAPN BILL ADV: SEA SIRENS and SKY ISLAND; and ANA & THE COSMIC RACE.

Amy has created comics for many charities including the New York Historical Society, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Chinese in America, and The Asian American Foundation. She is on the faculty of the Kubert School and the School of Visual Arts and is a board member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a double bachelor’s degree in Architectural Design from MIT and East Asian Studies from Wellesley College. You can follow her on tiktok @theamychu and on Facebook/iwritecomics as well as Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amy_chu