Comments on: Comics shop gutted by fire http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/comics-shop-gutted-by-fire/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:17:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Gus Dahlberg http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/comics-shop-gutted-by-fire/#comment-222922 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:22:20 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/comics-shop-gutted-by-fire/#comment-222922 That was a hell of a nice shop, too. Ten or so years ago, it used to be the very model of a cat-piss-man shop, stacks of books just heaped around, dimly lit, dusty shelves and narrow aisles, junk scattered everywhere... The re-opened shop was a wonder: clean, friendly, open and inviting, pretty much everything you want a comics shop to be. That was a hell of a nice shop, too. Ten or so years ago, it used to be the very model of a cat-piss-man shop, stacks of books just heaped around, dimly lit, dusty shelves and narrow aisles, junk scattered everywhere… The re-opened shop was a wonder: clean, friendly, open and inviting, pretty much everything you want a comics shop to be.

]]> by: Lea http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/comics-shop-gutted-by-fire/#comment-222863 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:55:09 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/comics-shop-gutted-by-fire/#comment-222863 I called Todd Grace's number and spoke to Tonya Woodbridge. U of H's next-door neighbor is a photography studio. The photog lent them garage space so they could serve readers yesterday on new comics day. U of H customers have been coming in and helping move and salvage. Just as in our fire, everything bagged and boarded came though. A nearby church opened rooms so gaming could resume, and they started again last night. Comics fans rock! They are nothing, (evening though we rail a lot in the interest of good comics) if not hopeful and helpful. (The puppy mentioned in the article is okay. Dirty, but okay. I'm so glad. That one's especially personal to me.) I called Todd Grace’s number and spoke to Tonya Woodbridge.
U of H’s next-door neighbor is a photography studio. The photog lent them garage space so they could serve readers yesterday on new comics day.

U of H customers have been coming in and helping move and salvage.
Just as in our fire, everything bagged and boarded came though.
A nearby church opened rooms so gaming could resume, and they started again last night.

Comics fans rock! They are nothing, (evening though we rail a lot in the interest of good comics) if not hopeful and helpful.

(The puppy mentioned in the article is okay. Dirty, but okay. I’m so glad. That one’s especially personal to me.)

]]> by: Lea http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/comics-shop-gutted-by-fire/#comment-222840 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:15:48 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/28/comics-shop-gutted-by-fire/#comment-222840 Aw, fuck. Awful, awful. Aw, fuck. Awful, awful.

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