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If the last few years in the evolution of the comic book industry has taught us anything, it should be that there’s always another world beyond the one we know. Big Two comics. Independent, mainstream comics. The Direct Market as a whole. Small Press. Webcomics. Crowdfunding. There’s always another part of the industry where the rules are different.
in "Angoulême Day 0: The Wide World of Comics" 24 jan 2019

Real estate bubble? Algumas pistas no retail edition de hoje antes de submergir o tema para melhores dias. Ignoramos este país à beira mar plantado e cruzamos oceanos à américa, berço dos comics as we know it.

New York is undergoing a retail apocalypse, endless empty storefronts on block after block. The general decline of the shopping district itself and New York's brutal retail environment are as much concerns as the comics industry issues we talk about here.
in "A Trip to St. Marks Comics in its Last Month; Big Changes at DC" jan 2019

Uma realidade que nos é estranha, ninguém por cá ouve falar de livrarias a fechar porque bolhas imobiliárias as apertam num negócio já de si apertado — and that's a joke, folks! Mas de como a renda condiciona o formato da BD para outro dia, hoje só as notas para um slice of life em janeiro de 2019 para arquivo.

St. Mark's is deader: St. Mark's Comics is closing after 36 years [for] a variety of factors, from increasing rents to changing consumer shopping habits
in "St. Mark's is deader: St. Mark's Comics is closing after 36 years" 29 jan 2019

Changing habits chutamos para a frente, nesta ocasição fala-se de saldos, "a store-clearing sale", e perguntas fazem-se, hint hint:

- Perhaps an online comics business?
- We have not ruled anything out, but we have also not planned for that. There are conversations, but they are in the earliest of the early stages.
in "St. Mark's is deader: St. Mark's Comics is closing after 36 years"29 jan 2019

Da loja dizem-nos ser emblemática de um tempo e atmosfera que não resistiram à especulação.

The comic book shop was one of the last of its kind, a dusty, idiosyncratic leftover from the old street, when it was still part and production of the counterculture. But there is little counterculture left in the broken East Village. A century of rebelliousness down the drain.
in "Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/30/19: More on the closing of St. Marks Comics" 30 jan 2019

Comentário adicional ao comentário adicional da Heidi:

I noted with some amusement that these sites use Blogger, a platform of the Aughts from the golden age of Blogging, so that’s kind of elegiac in its own way.
in "Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/30/19: More on the closing of St. Marks Comics" 30 jan 2019

Funny in that dark kinda way...

Exemplo 2: afastamos-nos da costa e a meio da américa encontramos (uma das) Mile High Comics, Colorado Blvd, e mais saldos de fim de loja:

After almost 29 years of operation, that friendly little store is now closed, forever.
in "60% Off All Comics Sale Ends Saturday" 2 jan 2019

Uma outra loja a 18 meses de terminar a sua renda.

That store has 18 months left on its lease, which gives us about a year to decide its fate. I am hoping that an alternative location can be found, as the $10,000+ a month in rent that we are presently being charged is far beyond the capacity of the store to bear.
in "60% Off All Comics Sale Ends Saturday"2 jan 2019

E nesse tópico:

As a side note I do, however, want to caution anyone so foolish as to be considering renting a store (or a house/apartment) to not make the same foolish mistake that I did in making someone else’s mortgage payments for them (via my monthly rent...) for nearly 30 years.
in FB can suck ass. 1 jan 2019

Crises que reconhecemos de outras calls em outras indústrias:

I do want to urge everyone to please resolve to support their local comics retailer during 2019. The economics of selling new issues has become total madness as the cover prices of periodical comics now reach up into the $5/copy range. With comics retailers buying non-returnable (an arrangement that I helped to pioneer in the late-1970's), all the risk is upon them as regards unsold product. That worked well when cover prices were under $1, but today's high cover prices are causing crippling losses to comics retailers whenever a title sells fewer copies than expected.
in "60% Off All Comics Sale Ends Saturday"2 jan 2019

...e regressamos aqui, onde também falámos de subscrições, prática "antiga" nas lojas de especialidade:

In case you are wondering, we do still intend to continue to offer pre-order new issues through our awesome N.I.C.E. subscription service, both online, and also in our retail locations.
in "60% Off All Comics Sale Ends Saturday"2 jan 2019

Finalmente terminamos de viagens na costa oeste: San Francisco, home town da Fantagraphics e igualmente apertada de bolhas. Mas apesar de algumas parecenças...:

Subscrições.

Our subscription customers are still the majority of our weekly sales;
in "Talkin’ Shop with James Sime and Ryan Higgins" 21 jan 2019

Location location location:

Our new location has expanded the walk-in customers tenfold
in "Talkin’ Shop with James Sime and Ryan Higgins" 21 jan 2019

...ou o inventário on-tha-edge:

The industry changes focus almost weekly. Customers that love something for years can turn on a title overnight. It’s almost literally “death by a thousand paper cuts” if you don’t keep an amazingly close eye on your ordering and customers interest.
in "Talkin’ Shop with James Sime and Ryan Higgins" 21 jan 2019

...ao contrário dos dois primeiros casos uma história de abundância:

The Bay Area is so crowded with comic stores in a relatively small area, you can easily walk to four or five other shops from my store’s front door.
in "Talkin’ Shop with James Sime and Ryan Higgins" 21 jan 2019

Porque há sempre outra parte da industry que as regras são diferentes. A continuar.

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