320 - State of the Industry with Brian Hibbs

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🗓️ 6 November 2007

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Brian Hibbs, owner of the San Francisco comic store, Comix Experience, joins us to discuss his views of the current state of the comic industry. Tune in to learn a few things from a retailer's perspective.

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geek Speak, episode 320.
0:04.6	Stay to the industry with Mr. Brian Hibbs.
0:08.6	Hello.
0:17.5	Welcome to Comic Geek Speak. I'm Brian Deamer.
0:19.5	I'm Peter Rios.
0:22.4	And on the phone, as I said, is Brian Hibbs of the Comics Experience in San Francisco.
0:28.3	How are you?
0:29.2	I'm very good. How are you guys?
0:30.7	Good. How's your Sunday with the whole switching back of time and all that?
0:37.2	It's fine, yeah. It's fine.
0:38.1	Yeah, it's my day off anyway, so it's a good day off to have when the time changes.
0:42.9	Is a store open or you're just not?
0:44.5	The store's open, yeah.
0:45.1	Yeah, is it?
0:45.7	Okay, cool.
0:47.0	You have trustworthy employees that you can leave there on Sunday.
0:50.6	No, they're all scum.
0:51.6	No, of course they've got trust for the employees.
0:55.4	There are cool. No, they're all scum. No, of course they've got trust for the employees. So it's been a while since we talked to you, so welcome back.
1:00.0	And the last time we talked to Brian Hibbs, we sort of, not only when we were talking about numbers, but one of the major discussions we had was about, my God, the industry and the direct market and the crash and the distribution wars.
1:13.6	And we just went through a whole mess.
1:16.6	So I thought this time around, let's get a little more specific.
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