More stores stocking RevolveЯ!
So as you know if you frequent the site, i’m self publishing RevolveЯ. Including distributing directly to any retailers that will do business with me. Contact me if you own or buy for a comics specialty store, book shop, group, club, or library about getting wholesale discounts ranging from 30% to 50%.
Strange Adventures, three locations.
Dartmouth, Halifax & Fredericton!
Three cities in one go! It was a happy thing
when the first orders for a retailer came in, and it was for three shops at once!
I’m not sure if RevolveЯ will be at all three locations, but you can ask to reserve yours today.
I’ve heard a lot about this small chain of east coast shops. Sometimes hosts of comic jams and 24hr comics events, signings, and often quick to back canuck talents! Full disclosure; Calum is a backer in my successful Indiegogo drive for dream life.
I know for my friends i’n the comics game over the years, they have backed a lot of great Indie books. Run by owner operator Calum Johnston they seem like really lively places. And I love the look of the Sackville shop. Look for the shots from Kate Beaton’s appearance, totally the kind of place i loved to be taken as a kid.
Another part of the world I’ve never been, that now I have a good excuse to try to get to! Their copies are estimated to arrive by Dec 17.
5262 Sackville St, Halifax, NS B3J 1K8| (902) 425-2140
68 York St, Fredericton, NB E3B 3N5 | (506) 450-3759
101 Portland St, Dartmouth, NS | (902) 444-2140
E-mail | Call Toll-Free 1-866-6-COMICS
The Beguiling
Toronto
Of all the shops that will stock RevolveЯ Quarterly #one for the holidays, In Toronto I’m honored to have it on the shelves of The Beguiling first.
There are a few other shops in my old home town i’d like to have it in as well or course. We want it in ALL the stores! But no shop is quite as close to my hart as the The Beguiling is. Forget that RevolveЯ will be there, if you’ve not yet visited the store, you must. Live out of town? Plan a vacation around it, it’s that good. I could say I’ve been a card carrying member of the shop since a year after it was first opened, if I had not lost my card several moves ago and to another city. :( ~ I still dig around my studio now and then to see if it’s hiding somewhere. Along with the Silver Snail and Dragon Lady [rip], it was of the holly triumvirate of downtown comic shops that helped make Toronto the comics community it is today.
They celebrated their 25th anniversary this year, it’s fantastic that they still seem to be going strong.
Peter just did an interview about his tenure as the long time and current owner that’s worth a read, he’s built a fantastic book shop and cultural center out of the indie comic shop he bought off Steve and Sean. And to top it off the comic festival they host, TCAF, has become a defining event for the burgeoning literary comics industry in the region.Their copies are estimated to arrive by Dec 17, so as if you needed an excuse to hang out there, drop by in the days after that for sure, and ask for RevolveЯ by name.
Say hi to the staff for me too, tell them I sent you!
The Beguiling
601 Markham Street
Toronto, ON M6G 2L7
(416) 533-9168
4 Colour 8 Bit Comics & Games
Kingston
Joining the growing list of Canadian Comic shops stocking RevolveЯ Quarterly will be 4-Colour, 8-Bit: Comics & Games!
A 5 year old retro themed lounge and hang out style comic and gaming shop with what looks like from the photos a sizable crowd of regulars! A lot of gaming events and comics gatherings, they host 24hr comics days every year. They filled out a Comic Retailers Store Questionnaire for the The Joe Shuster Awards blog in 2010.Looks like the book will find a tight and large audience there, the shop is dedicated to a strong Indie presence and in walking distance of 2 universities and 4 high schools, kid friendly and & a balanced customer base.
I hope they dig RevolveЯ One and future issues, Kingston is in the great lakes transit corridor, a place I could affordably do appearances. If it seems workable schedule wise i’m thinking next September would be a good time for the first tour for RevolveЯ & Dream Life.
Estimated Arrival Date is Tue, Dec 18, 2012
4-Colour, 8-Bit: Comics & Games [FB]
346 Princess Street
Kingston, ON K7L 1B6
(613) 542-1200
Mission: Comics and Art
San Francisco
Mission Comics and Art will own the bragging rights to be the first American comic shop to stock RevolveЯ Quarterly!
The place is very cool looking inside, like a TARDIS, a great sprawling gallery and book store off of an unassuming shop front in the hart of SF’s famous Mission district.
For sure if I manage put together a tour in 2013 it’ll be top of my list of places to stop!
There’s a nice write up about them here, and a flickr set showing off events and highlights like their Graphic Novel Rental Library! I’ve poached photos from there for this post.
Their mission statement describes it thus “Combine a comic book shop with an art gallery in a fresh, exciting way drawing on the unique strengths of the Mission District, its diversity, and eclectic and energetic art community.” More here. The owner Leef sounds to have grown up in the same kind of counter culture environment as i did, look forward to meeting him some day. Their copies are estimated to arrive by Dec 13, though you hardly need the excuse of my book to check this place out I think.
Mission: Comics and Art
3520 20th St. Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94110
Ph. # 415-695-1545
photos sourced from the Internets, if anyone object just let me know and i’ll take your’s down.
