Go, Read: Drawn and Quarterly’s Chris Oliveros On Supporting Your Local Independent Bookstores

Publisher and all-too-occasional cartoonist Chris Oliveros types up a short but sweet message after hearing about the travails of a long-time supporter of his company, D+Q. I think if a retailer has value to you, you should definitely support it partly on the basis of that value rather than dismissing such factors in favor of a straight-up cost-benefit analysis. Part of the problem is that the dominant ethos in comics is buying ALL THE COMICS even more than buying the good comics or the comics that make you the most happy, so the readership is vulnerable to shifts in behavior that maximize one's chances to get more, more, more. Believe it or not, I think this is going to be a bigger issue once comics self-grown protectionism of certain retail models begin to fade in the next two years here.
 
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