Brian Hibbs

Our window displays at @comixexperience.bsky.social by the great Katie Borrman are always strong, but in my opinion this one is the ne plus ultra, perfectly capturing comics, and multiple styles in a tribute to the classic gag by Bushmiller!

TODAY Tue 2/4 is Buy Two get Third free from our extensive Starter Sets -- prepackaged collections of back issues already at insanely low prices. THERE IS NO LIMIT on the number of times you can redeem this, today!

TODAY Sun 2/2 is Buy Two get Third book free from the CLASSICS rack. Comics from the 40s, 50s, and 60s are the foundational building blocks of our great medium!

A new sale each and every day this month from Comix Experience…. because we LOVE YOU nearly as much as WE LOVE COMICS!

Our Kids Club selection this month is a real blast (-off)! MR. MUFFINS DEFENDERS OF THE STARS by @benkahncomics.bsky.social and Georgeo Brooks, published by @oni-press.bsky.social. Pick up a copy from us, and watch for our interview with Ben and Georgeo coming in March.

Our Adult GN Club pick for February 2025 is a powerful memoir asking important questions about grief and trauma: THE MURDER NEXT DOOR by @hugh-jeego.bsky.social ! Excited to host Hugh for a very special interview at Comix Experience on Sun, 3/2 at 10am PST — come down and join our studio audience!

Today, Sat 2/1, the special is buy two, get the third for FREE on the ROMANCE shelf

I am really excited to interview Terry LaBan, whose 90s work was at Fantagraphics and Vertigo, and is now doing middle reader graphic novels. MENDEL is really really good, too! m.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlQ...

Comics are non returnable. Had we been forced to accept books when our municipalities dictated we were closed almost every store in California, and almost every major city (NY, Chicago, etc) would have shut down forever

PEOPLE: Penguin Random House DOES NOT WANT any accounts smaller than they already have, and Lunar (besides being the primary retail competition for all of us) is really REALLY bad at their jobs and, in my personal estimation, could not possibly HANDLE more vendors. 2025 is going to be a nightmare.

Say "Goodbye" to most smaller publishers, and "so long" for the right opportunities for a majority of smaller and unproven creators.

Never EVER forget that the blame for this falls directly upon DC Comics, and we should never forget this, or ever withhold that blame.

Diamond Comic Distributors Files Voluntary Petition for Relief Under Chapter 11 Diamond Comic Distributors (“Diamond” or “the Company”), today announced that it has filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Uni

There are a LOT of people who were actively rooting for Diamond comics to fail. Well, your wishes appear to be coming true, as Diamond files for Chapter 11, and this is going to be TRULY dire news for the Direct Market, at least in the short and medium term. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Well, today's OTHER news (of Diamond filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy) is probably going to strongly overshadow this, but my interview with Atom Freeman dropped this morning, and, looking through the archive, it appears this is THE longest show he has ever done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gP...

Our Adult GN Club pick for Jan '25 is I HEART SKULL CRUSHER! by @cozyjamble.bsky.social and Alessio Zonno. Interview on 1/19/2025 at youtube.com/live/W9S2svu.... Get a SIGNED copy at comix-experience.myshopify.com/collections/... and join club at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove...

Our KIDS club for Jan '25 is a great book from master cartoonist Terry LaBan: MENDEL THE MESS UP. Get a copy: comix-experience.myshopify.com/collections/... and watch our interview on Sunday 1/26/2025 at 10am PST at youtube.com/live/WLlQNYH... Join up at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... !

HOW did Comix Experience do in 2024? WHAT are our best-sellers? WHO is buying the best comics? WHERE are the sales coming from? WHY do we love comics so much? All of these questions and more can be found at www.comixexperience.com/news/2024/12...

Sunday 12/29 at 10am PST, please join us for the final Graphic Novel Club conversation of the year, as I am joined by the team supreme of @kierongillen.bsky.social and @stephaniehans.bsky.social to talk about the craft of comics, and WE CALLED THEM GIANTS. Watch it at youtube.com/live/XY9S-Ln...

Tilting at Windmills #299: The State of Comic Book Sales 2024 Retailer Brian Hibbs gives the state of comic book sales in 2024: it's good! But storm clouds are on the horizon.

I think that's the fastest turnaround to publish my column... ever?

www.comicsbeat.com/tilting-at-w...

I just submitted the two hundred and ninety-ninth edition of TILTING AT WINDMILLS to @comixace.bsky.social . Dang.

Did I ever share the latest Pic by Katie Borrman for @comixexperience.bsky.social ? Damn, she goes from strength to strength!!!

This is a VERY original graphic novel for our monthly selection.

Find out more at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... and get a GREAT monthly book, with an exclusive signed bookplate, and a livestreamed interview EACH AND EVERY MONTH, and support a great store at the same time.

Do it. Now!

You really have no idea how damn cute this selection is!

Join our kid's club at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... and get an amazing new book for your middle reader, with a sticker and a pin, and a livestreamed interview with the creators EACH AND EVERY MONTH. Makes a perfect gift, yo.

...and all of the thousands of fertile, servant, and fantastic creators who help feed the store to be ABLE to follow this crazy dream! As I often say, if it wasn't for you, I'd be sitting sadly in a store for of blank pages, the worst thing I can possibly imagine.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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Last but not least, I really am thankful to all of our publishing partners -- if I ever give you grief (and I surely do) it is always and only in the service of Making Comics better.....

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....and they all make it better every day, in every way.

Then, it is our lovely, stylish, mad and hungry customers who we strive to meet and surpass on the road to the best selection of comics they can possibly imagine.

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First and foremost: my rugged and astonishing staff: Zoe, Katt, and Katie along with Chrissy and Max. A more dedicated, intelligent and enthusiastic band of comic slingers you will never ever meet. They GET what Comix Experience IS, and, way more importantly, what is CAN BE....

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After 35 years of trying to successfully run a comic book store (of all silly things!) in a City that is addled by tech and brutal on being a small business, I am so very thankful to the many people who make it conceivable we could stay in business for another 35 years.

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Here is a pic sent to me by Michael Drivas (Serpico in this pic), who went on to open Big Brain Comics in mpls, with Rob Bennett (the Hesher) of @comixexperience.bsky.social in, let's say, 1992? Look at the wall of back issues then, or how GNs had a little room to be displayed and not just spines!

This is a damn fine book, from a damn fine cartoonist! Hope you can all watch on Sunday morning (11/24)

Looking forward to this conversation on Sunday morning! youtube.com/live/DNes_lX...