Brian Hibbs And Comix Experience Launch GN Club Seeking to Offset Minimum Wage Hikes



The longtime comics store Comix Experience and its owner/operator Brian Hibbs have put out a call for interested parties to join a book club they've started in order to make $80,000 more a year and offset the costs of San Francisco's minimum wage hike to. I've sent Brian a few follow-up questions and am looking at some outside documents about the minimum wage hikes, but for now I thought you'd be interested in learning about it in advance of my semi-closer look.

I suspect there will be some pushback along the lines given by longtime North Carolina comics shop employee Dustin Harbin here.

This is also, of course, part of "The Year Everyone Looks For More Money." I know I'm considering something and suspect that at this point there are enough comics-makers with Patreon-type campaigns that they could lock their hands and surround the San Diego Convention Center. Neither I nor most people that fit that description are even in cities that offer this specific outside pressure.

Update: I may not have enough information for a second article! Hibbs declined to speak for publication on questions of overall store hours, how many people this involved, and how the math was done, even though he provided CR with background-only information. He pointed out my question to him where extra money raised in the book club effort might go (it goes to the employees) had been answered. My apologies to him for not catching that the first time. In going background-only Hibbs expressed a desire to focus on a solution to the problem in terms of what information gets put out there. I wish Brian and CE the best of luck with their book club and wish I could join myself. Hopefully, Hibbs will come back on the record once initial word gets out.
 
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