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“Beverly Grove was a STAR!” Comics! Sometimes they are mucky.
Posted by: John Kane on October 8, 2011
Categories: Reviews
On 7th October 1950 Howard Victor Chaykin was born. Belated Happy Birthday wishes to Howard Victor Chaykin! On 8th October 2011 I wrote this about a book he did in 1988. On…look will somebody answer that dingdanged phone!
Why am I starting to feel old?
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 16, 2011
Categories: Site News
Internet time is compressed and strange, and it is a whole lot of new all of the time, and so when things last it feels a little weird, doesn’t it? It was ten years ago today that I started posting openly to the web using the Savage Critic name — that was on comixexperience.com, and something broke that I hadn’t noticed until a week ago, and I don’t know how to fix it and anyway, that site will be revamped (and hopefully properly restored) sometime in June-ish, so sorry you can’t go back and look at Public post #1 at this very second. I had posts on Doug Pratt’s long-gone Comics & Animation Forum on CompuServe (Wheeee, dial-up… Read More…
Happy 22nd anniversary, Comix Experience!
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 1, 2011
Categories: Retailing/Industry
My utmost gratitude to all of our wonderful customers and excellent staff for helping Comix Experience get to this, our 22nd anniversary of operation! -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on April 1, 2010
Categories: Retailing/Industry
About 3 hours from now, 21 years ago, I walked down the block (I literally only lived a block away back then) and threw on the lights for the very first time. As I recall, we made $56 the first day open — I was so proud! I was 21 years old myself when I opened the store, which means from now on, I’ve been doing this longer than I haven’t been doing it. Jinkies! I’m wearing the teal and pink CE shirt today, to celebrate — well, in my defense, it WAS the 1980s. Plus, Ben lost his second tooth today, so it’s a real day for milestones! -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 28, 2009
Categories: Retailing/Industry
First off, the new TILTING AT WINDMILLS is up at Comic Book Resources — it is all about the ComicsPRO meeting from last week, and also has a look inside Diamond’s new warehouse. But this week’s bigger news is that on Wednesday, April 1st, it is the 20th anniversary of Comix Experience. Whoa. Man, it sure don’t feel like 20 years. On 4/1, we’re going to hold a food drive for the San Francisco Food Bank. If you bring a can of food in as a donation, then you will get 20% off absolutely anything in the store. And, yes, Wednesday is New Comics Day; and, yes, that discount will apply to that week’s new comics as well, so, y’know,… Read More…
Posted by: admin on April 1, 2008
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Ugh, I’ve come down with some sort of horrible cold (thanks, Ben!), and I’m sitting here shivering barely able to put two words together, and trying desperately to not nod off at the counter until Carissa comes in in an hour, so I’m going to push off the return of Around the Store until tomorrow (I hope?) But I did want to note that today is the 19th anniversary of Comix Experience! Not the state I want to be in for it, but you take what you can get…. OK, back to nodding off… -B
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 29, 2008
Categories: Retailing/Industry
It’s February 29th, Leap Year Day, which can only mean one thing: It’s Superman’s birthday! Superman is, of course, 70 years old this year (ACTION #1 had an June, 1938 cover date, so that would have shipped in April, I think), but sometime in the 1970s it was decided that he was a Leap Year baby. I asked Mark Waid if there was a citation in the comic books to this, and he replied: “I know it was in one of E. Nelson Bridwell’s/Mort Weisinger’s letter columns, a jokey answer about how Superman could have been an adult in 1938 and still look so young. Nelson ‘cemented’ the date in the 1976 Super DC Calendar from Warner Books.” I had… Read More…
Posted by: admin on October 4, 2007
Categories: Retailing/Industry
He’s Four Years old today — how does the time fly? I know I have to upload some new pics soon, but things have been hectic. Nor are things helped by what happened this morning. I opened the store and was sitting down to my breakfast when I heard a pitter-pat sound. Um, wtf…? Oh, water coming from the ceiling. Oh, the pitter-pat is becoming a gush gush gush. Oh, shit, it’s raining! Yep, from the hotel above us. Again. Water is shooting out from the ceiling, cascading along the track lighting, with not just a drip drip, but with the force of a garden hose. Its from a toilet, of course, so the water isn’t exactly, um, pure. I… Read More…
Posted by: admin on June 15, 2007
Categories: Retailing/Industry , Reviews
So, I’m 40 today. Jinkies. (perversely, I was really hoping to make Spurge’s birthday list — but all props to my shared date mates Don McGregor, Brent Anderson… and, uh, PAD’s 1000th comic) I don’t really feel any different than I did when I was 20, though I never really thought I’d make my 30th birthday, let alone my 40th. I promised I wouldn’t do anything comics related today (I’m going to play video games all afternoon, damn it — because I never get to screw around during the afternoon), but I did want to mention the best OGN I’ve read this year: Minx’s second release, RE-GIFTERS There’s a perverse number of perceived barriers in creating fiction and art —… Read More…
Posted by: admin on April 1, 2007
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Tzipora wonders why I go to bed at 1 am every night, and it’s because it is midnight and I’m still typing. BUT, now that it is Midnight, that means it is April 1, which means you’re going to read a lot of stupid stuff on the ‘net today that you shouldn’t believe. This one is real, however. Comix Experience is 18 years old today. Give her a round of applause! (you have no idea how old this makes me feel, by the way) -B
Posted by: admin on April 1, 2006
Categories: Retailing/Industry
Today, April 1, marks the seventeenth anniversary of Comix Experience. Hoo-fuckin-rah! OK, time to get back to inventory…. -B
The Two Most Useful Words in the World
Posted by: admin on August 21, 2004
Categories: Uncategorized
I. Forgot. It’s Rob Bennett’s birfday, do I gots to run the whole shift today at the store. It’s the Big Law of Comix Experience: No One Works On Their Birthday. So reviews later tonight? Tomorrow? Soon, I hope… (Hm, maybe I’ll bring the AlphaSmart with me to work) -B
