Is an hour too long a distance to travel to buy half-price comics and graphic novels from a comic book shop that is going out of business? Is 8am too early to get up on a Sunday morning to do this? Should I feel guilty and a little sleazy for…
I've talked about comic book shops – both in London and elsewhere – that I shop at, have shopped at or are around for me to access in London. For a final post on the topic, I wanted to get out of my system the other comic shops I have…
The chronological continuation of recollecting my comic book shop patronage moves from Bristol to Canterbury in England's garden, Kent. After my undergraduate degree at Bristol, I went to the University of Kent at Canterbury (its full title) to do some post-graduate work for several years. Even though it's only 90…
My series of posts about comic book shops has been limited to London, because that's where I live and have done for quite a few years. However, I have also lived elsewhere and found places to buy comics in these cities; I thought I'd share some memories to keep up…
Mega-City Comics (I've used the hyphen based on the shop sign), named after the cities in Judge Dredd, has been around for over 20 years, selling comics from its location in Camden to the huge number of people who come to visit the market. When I was a younger man…
Along with They Walk Among Us and Avalon Comics, 30th Century Comics is a comic book shop in London that is south of the river, in Putney (a few minutes' walk from the train station, a bit more from the underground stations). Seeing as only 10% of all London Underground…
(Apologies for the unprofessional photo – you can see my reflection in the shop door. Scratch off 'photojournalist' for the list of potential careers.) In the previous posts in this series, I've talked about comic book shops mostly situated in central London; these are shops that are some distance from…
They Walk Among Us is a small comic book shop in Richmond, which means it's quite a distance from the previous four comic book shops in central London I've talked about so far. I would have thought that the location would be a negative ‒ the central London shops can…
(Photo taken from Rich Johnston's Lying In The Gutters column containing his rundown of central London comic book shops) The other comic book shops that I have talked about in the central London area are still operating; Comic Showcase is no longer with us, which is a great shame. The…
Of all the shops in Central London I’ve talked about so far, Orbital is the newest on the block that is still doing business. Like Forbidden Planet, it too has moved location, upgrading from Old Compton Street in Soho to the Tottenham Court Road end of Charing Cross Road. However,…