ABOUT THIS EPISODE
We really expected to just talk in gushing tones about our favourite comic shops and then come up with some great ideas for how we'd run our own.
So of course we're ranting about the comics Direct Market. But also some other stuff!
We read:
- Mare Internum - Der-shing Helmer
- Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet - Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze
- Trees - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
- The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf
- How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less - Sarah Glidden
- Critical Chips - Zainab Akhtar and various authors
- The Can Opener’s Daughter - Rob Davis
Comic shops we talked about:
- Gosh (London)
- Page 45 (Nottingham)
- Niche (Huntingdon)
- Dave's Comics (Brighton)
- OK Comics (Leeds)
English
United States
explicit content
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