1058 - What is the Role of the Comic Book Retailer?

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🗓️ 18 April 2011

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Following up on our discussions on the roles of the Reader and Publisher, we now turn to Comic Book Retailers. What is their purpose? What makes for a good store? And what is their position in the comic book industry food chain? (1:24:02)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geekspeak episode 158.
0:03.2	What is the role of the comic book retailer?
0:06.1	It was interesting when Peter and I were on the road, and between Chicago and Kansas City, in like four days, we visited over a dozen comic shops.
0:15.2	How different they are all.
0:18.2	With my experience recently, at Toys R Us, it's all about customer service with everything right now. Welcome to Comic Key. I'm Brian Deemer. I'm Shane Kelly. I'm Adam Murdo. I'm Brian Christman. I'm Mike Gallagher. And thanks for joining us. And also to help us in the discussion is, appropriately enough, a comic book retailer.
0:38.3	Mr. Chris Eberley from Wild Pig Comics.
0:40.4	Welcome, Chris.
0:41.3	Gentlemen, always honored to be on. Thank you.
0:44.0	All right. The sponsor for this episode is the best comic convention you're going to go to all year.
0:49.7	No, it's not San Diego. No, it's not the New York Comic-Con.
0:55.3	They're good. They're-Con. They're good.
0:56.6	They're all right.
0:57.6	They're okay.
0:58.6	But it's the Comic Geekspeak Super Show.
1:01.5	You're here.
1:02.4	It's only two weeks away.
1:03.9	It's happening April 30th and May 1st.
1:06.6	Right here in Reading, Pennsylvania at the Greater Redding Expo Center.
1:10.7	It sounds much more impressive than it is. at the Greater Reading Expo Center. It sounds much more impressive than it is.
1:12.8	At the Greater Reading Expo Center.
1:15.2	Don't sell it short.
1:16.2	No, no.
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