Comic collections in book shops

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Happy with the comic ghetto in book shops? Is it wise/economic to put comics in the sections they belong to?

Alternatively: books about the holocaust and books about a school for mutants in the same section of the book shop C/D?

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 30 January 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

B-b-but all the books about a school for mutants are ACTUALLY ABOUT the Holocaust! And RACISM.

Borders has Primo Levi and Tiffanie Darke in the same A-Z section too!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 30 January 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

good point. OK, books of war reportage in the same section as fictional vigilantes with rubber fetishes

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 30 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to my stepmom's bookstore (which I worked at for years) the other night. The only graphic novels were manga and the new Sandman hardcover. I've talked to her about getting some decent trades in, and apparently the major comics publishers just aren't going after the bookstore market right now, as she didn't even know who to talk to about it or who their parent companies are. Just different circles I guess.

In general though, I'm in favor of bookstores carrying trades in a gateway drug sort of way.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Book shops ought to have one of McKean's book in the art section.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently the major comics publishers just aren't going after the bookstore market right now

This is very strange. as Marvel has been All About The Trades for the last while. Are they just pushing them to comics stores?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

They probably don't sell in bookstores. When I worked at Borders, I managed the comics section, and it was always a fucking mess. I tried to group everything together by publisher, series, or major writer, depending on what was more well known, and every day, scores of nerds would come in and tear the place up, reading the books and ripping the shit out of them and haphazardly shoving them back onto the shelf. (This used to piss me off, because of course they would NEVER do this to their OWN stuff...)

I think comics in bookstores are so mothers buying gifts for the sons don't have to go into an actual comic shop.

― Catty (Catty), Monday, 9 February 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

― spam, Saturday, 10 June 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I feel guilty buying anything in a bookshop, like I'm putting a real comic shop out of business. (Which might explain why I've never bought any comics from a real bookshop.) )The £1000+ I stole don't count. For obvious reasons.)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 11 June 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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― spam, Monday, 26 June 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

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― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

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― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

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― spambot, Tuesday, 27 June 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

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