{"id":1528,"date":"2005-05-06T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T01:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/06\/saturday-is-free-comics-day\/"},"modified":"2005-05-06T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2005-05-07T01:58:16","slug":"saturday-is-free-comics-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Saturday is Free Comics Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday is Free Comics Day!<\/p>\n<p>This means a few things. It means that if you drop by your friendly neighborhood comics shop, maybe they&#8217;ll give you some free comics.<\/p>\n<p>And it also means that all Girlamatic comics will be free all day tomorrow. Free! Free! Here&#8217;s a not-especially-formal statement from the publisher, Joey Manley:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a sort of unofficial tip of the hat to Free Comic Book Day, and to celebrate our recent recovery from a catastrophic server crash, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlamatic.com\">Girlamatic.com&#8217;s<\/a> archives will be free to all visitors all day on Saturday, May 7, 2005, starting at midnight Eastern time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlamatic.com\/\">http:\/\/www.girlamatic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t yet checked out the great comics on the site (including Jenn Manley Lee&#8217;s amazing &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlamatic.com\/series.php?name=dicebox&#038;view=current\">Dicebox<\/a>,&#8221; Jason Thompson&#8217;s creepy teen-angst drorror &#8212; horror and drama, get it? &#8212; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlamatic.com\/series.php?name=thestiff&#038;view=current\">The Stiff<\/a>,&#8221; the Narbonic spin-off &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlamatic.com\/series.php?name=mell&#038;view=current\">Li&#8217;l Mell<\/a>,&#8221; or the too-cute-for-words &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlamatic.com\/series.php?name=jeepers&#038;view=current\">Jeepers<\/a>,&#8221; just to name a few, now&#8217;s your chance!<\/p>\n<p>Girlamatic is an award-winning webcomics publication featuring lots of comics that aren&#8217;t specifically targetted at male readers, and that, you know, kind of sort of are mostly intended for female audiences. But guys are welcome or whatever.  I guess that&#8217;s the politically-correct way to put it.  Or, as Girlamaticker Lisa Jonte puts it &#8212; &#8220;Come for the cooties, stay for the comics!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subscriptions cost $2.95\/month or $29.95\/year and include heaping helpings of our eternal gratitude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As most &#8220;Alas&#8221; readers already know, my own comic <em>Hereville <\/em>is a Girlamatic comic. So if you&#8217;d like to read a bunch of <em>Hereville <\/em>for free, tomorrow&#8217;s the day!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and hey &#8211; when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/05\/06\/saturday_is_free_com.html\">Boing Boing<\/a> reproduced Joey&#8217;s statement, they also included a <em>Hereville <\/em>drawing by yours truly! I&#8217;m on Boing Boing! Super-keen. (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/livejournal.com\/users\/w1ldc47\">Jakob <\/a>for pointing this out to me).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday is Free Comics Day! This means a few things. It means that if you drop by your friendly neighborhood comics shop, maybe they&#8217;ll give you some free comics. And it also means that all Girlamatic comics will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1528\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}