Rx Comics In Vancouver Announces Physical Store Closure

Here. They'll retain an on-line presence and exhibit at shows. Robin McConnell assures me this is a big blow to the Vancouver comics community, especially the alt-/art- leaning denizens.

All comic shops are important because of the culture and context they provide the act of reading comics, and because of the regular commerce they encourage. A lot of what I've heard anecdotally over the years, including information gleaned from the relative purge of stores in the Phoenix area over a decade, suggests that a lot of buyers that lose their comics shop simply stop buying.

In addition, there are fewer outlets that carry alt-/art- comics at all (I'm guessing without knowing that Rx did some of that), which makes every loss more keenly felt. There are also fewer incentives for those comics to be carried long-term via a national on-line delivery system, although digital versions should be a regular thing with comiXology. All of this I think is driving us towards a future where comics has to more fully encompass a range of purely commercial and advocacy/supportive options for the art form to thrive as it has over the last 15 years if not grow more potent. That's a tough road.
 
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