January 2012
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GUEST BLOGGER: Challengers Comics + Conversation
HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT
Hand-selling is another way of saying what we, as comic shop owners, are really doing, and that’s curating: taking everything that’s available for you, as a customer and as a reader, and creating a specific slice of the industry. Something that speaks directly to you. The book you were looking for but didn’t know about. And that, at its core is what we as retailers need to...
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GETTING CLOSER
The Oakland Convention Center – which was the wonderful home of WonderCon back when Image first started – is just wrapping up a major remodel. We were visiting yesterday as part of a meeting for the upcoming Image Expo, and this is what it looked like:
We’re going back in a couple weeks to see the finished hall, but what’s going to be really interesting is how it will look the...
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NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE
guest post by Joe Keatinge
When I was a kid I never thought about comics the way I do now.
Yes, they’re equally on my mind as they were then in terms of consistency. Comics took up the vast majority of my thought processes. They still do. However, how I absorbed and understood them has changed so dramatically. A lot of that is age. Some of it is circumstance.
Like a lot of people, I came...
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