Go, Read: Robert Boyd On Domy Books Houston, RIP

Longtime alt-comics industry mainstay and current Houston-area arts writer (among other things) Robert Boyd has a very nice blog post here about the closing of Houston's Domy Books location. This paragraph nails it:

When I was 16 and got my driver's license (in 1979), my buddies and I started coming to The River Oaks Theater, which at the time was a repertory theater--a new double feature every night. Initially, we were going to see rock and roll movies like The Kids Are Alright or Yessongs. But eventually we started discovering weird movies that we had never heard of there. Likewise, we started haunting the Half Price Books & Records on Waugh, buying records just because they had cool covers. I mention this because these places were part of my cultural education -- they opened my eyes to new ways of reading and seeing and listening. And I would be amazed if Domy hadn't had the same effect on many a young person, seeking something without exactly knowing what it was they sought until they found it at Domy.

Retail is a great and wonderful thing, these places to go to interact with physical objects of value. One of the reasons comics is relatively strong right now when compared to other media with greater advantages is that more of comics' established retail infrastructure survived the last 15 years.
 
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