Sunday 16 October 2011

A scribbly comic shop rant (and plea)

9 comments:

Adocentyn said...

I know exactly what you mean. After being used to Leicester's comic shops for so many years, I was pleasantly surprised to see a big stack of John Allison books in Page 45 when we popped through to Nottingham recently.

Rachael Smith said...

Hehe! That's so funny you mentioned Page 45, after getting exasperated that day I ordered a bunch of stuff from them that evening. Page 45 4 life!

goonpatrol said...

hi! i'm the guy in this comic, i'm sorry your visit wasn't a great one, although i think your writeup of it was a little skewed - anyway, in keeping with the spirit of things i've prepared a response in the form of a comic. it's here:

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1214/responseb.png

it's nothing mean or rude, honest!
hope you like it, and again, sorry if the day wasn't to your liking.

HARVEYJAMES said...

This is hilarious.

Please keep these call/response comics going back and forth and sell the resultant zine's worth of comics in your store.

Rachael Smith said...

Aww, I'm sorry I ruined your morning coffee, man - it wasn't a direct attack of you - and I do admit in the comic that our conversation wasn't portrayed entirely accuratly. And I do have kind of a skewed view of reality at the best of times. Thank you for your response and for taking it so well though. You're a really good sport, but it's worth mentioning again that it was NOT a direct attack of you - more so the way mainstream comic shops don't stock indie comics or seem to really care about them. You obviously do though. I will try to respond in comic form a little later tonight :)

Rachael Smith said...

Ugh, I feel like the worst person in the world now!
*crawls into a hole*

goonpatrol said...

aww i can't stay mad at you

i eagerly await the followup comic, HJ is right, we should make it a fanzine.

HARVEYJAMES said...

By the way, you have huge and beautiful eyes!

Rachael Smith said...

http://rachaelsmithillustration.blogspot.com/2011/10/scribbly-comic-shop-rant-response.html :D