http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/10/20/more-on-fantagraphics-storefront/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/10/20/more-on-fantagraphics-storefront/#comment-6946 Al Clover Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:32:57 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/10/20/more-on-fantagraphics-storefront/#comment-6946 The only comment I have about this new Fanta store is that it will hurt the Seattle stores, I would think anyway. Speaking from my own experience of running one of the premier stores in the Seattle area for the entire 90's (Zanadu Comics in the U-district) we ordered on a weekly basis to restock every Fanta title we could sell. We were selling more Hate and Love and Rockets then X-men but then we sold more Sandman and Transmetropolitan than X-men. This wasn't a new thing for the store either as I remember that when I first discovered Zanadu Comcs in the late 70's, Love and Rockets was prominently displayed next to Legion of Super Heroes on the rack. And yes it was added to my pull list. This from someone who grew up reading The Avengers and was a dyed in the wool Marvel Zombie (still am somewhat). I doubt I would have ever discovered Love and Rockets if it wasn't pushed. Alright now for the disclaimers I haven't worked for Zanadu Comics since 2000 and so this is just my opinion and in no way represents comments from Zanadu Comics. I spent the latter part of the 21st century as a consumer, a distributor and a retail manager of comics and I feel that if things had been different I might not have enjoyed comics as much as I did. The only comment I have about this new Fanta store is that it will hurt the Seattle stores, I would think anyway. Speaking from my own experience of running one of the premier stores in the Seattle area for the entire 90’s (Zanadu Comics in the U-district) we ordered on a weekly basis to restock every Fanta title we could sell. We were selling more Hate and Love and Rockets then X-men but then we sold more Sandman and Transmetropolitan than X-men. This wasn’t a new thing for the store either as I remember that when I first discovered Zanadu Comcs in the late 70’s, Love and Rockets was prominently displayed next to Legion of Super Heroes on the rack. And yes it was added to my pull list. This from someone who grew up reading The Avengers and was a dyed in the wool Marvel Zombie (still am somewhat). I doubt I would have ever discovered Love and Rockets if it wasn’t pushed. Alright now for the disclaimers I haven’t worked for Zanadu Comics since 2000 and so this is just my opinion and in no way represents comments from Zanadu Comics. I spent the latter part of the 21st century as a consumer, a distributor and a retail manager of comics and I feel that if things had been different I might not have enjoyed comics as much as I did.

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