Brian Hibbs
@savagecritic.bsky.social
Owner of Comix Experience in San Francisco, and host of the CE Graphic Novel of the Month clubs. Author of Tilting at Windmills. General comics pundit.
Our window displays at @comixexperience.bsky.social by the great Katie Borrman are always strong, but in my opinion this one is the ne plus ultra, perfectly capturing comics, and multiple styles in a tribute to the classic gag by Bushmiller!
August 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Our window displays at @comixexperience.bsky.social by the great Katie Borrman are always strong, but in my opinion this one is the ne plus ultra, perfectly capturing comics, and multiple styles in a tribute to the classic gag by Bushmiller!
TODAY Sun 2/2 is Buy Two get Third book free from the CLASSICS rack. Comics from the 40s, 50s, and 60s are the foundational building blocks of our great medium!
A new sale each and every day this month from Comix Experience…. because we LOVE YOU nearly as much as WE LOVE COMICS!
February 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
TODAY Sun 2/2 is Buy Two get Third book free from the CLASSICS rack. Comics from the 40s, 50s, and 60s are the foundational building blocks of our great medium!
Reposted by Brian Hibbs
A new sale each and every day this month from Comix Experience…. because we LOVE YOU nearly as much as WE LOVE COMICS!
February 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A new sale each and every day this month from Comix Experience…. because we LOVE YOU nearly as much as WE LOVE COMICS!
Reposted by Brian Hibbs
Our Kids Club selection this month is a real blast (-off)! MR. MUFFINS DEFENDERS OF THE STARS by @benkahncomics.bsky.social and Georgeo Brooks, published by @oni-press.bsky.social. Pick up a copy from us, and watch for our interview with Ben and Georgeo coming in March.
February 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our Kids Club selection this month is a real blast (-off)! MR. MUFFINS DEFENDERS OF THE STARS by @benkahncomics.bsky.social and Georgeo Brooks, published by @oni-press.bsky.social. Pick up a copy from us, and watch for our interview with Ben and Georgeo coming in March.
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Our Adult GN Club pick for February 2025 is a powerful memoir asking important questions about grief and trauma: THE MURDER NEXT DOOR by @hugh-jeego.bsky.social ! Excited to host Hugh for a very special interview at Comix Experience on Sun, 3/2 at 10am PST — come down and join our studio audience!
February 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our Adult GN Club pick for February 2025 is a powerful memoir asking important questions about grief and trauma: THE MURDER NEXT DOOR by @hugh-jeego.bsky.social ! Excited to host Hugh for a very special interview at Comix Experience on Sun, 3/2 at 10am PST — come down and join our studio audience!
Today, Sat 2/1, the special is buy two, get the third for FREE on the ROMANCE shelf
A new sale each and every day this month from Comix Experience…. because we LOVE YOU nearly as much as WE LOVE COMICS!
February 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Today, Sat 2/1, the special is buy two, get the third for FREE on the ROMANCE shelf
I am really excited to interview Terry LaBan, whose 90s work was at Fantagraphics and Vertigo, and is now doing middle reader graphic novels. MENDEL is really really good, too! m.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlQ...
January 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I am really excited to interview Terry LaBan, whose 90s work was at Fantagraphics and Vertigo, and is now doing middle reader graphic novels. MENDEL is really really good, too! m.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlQ...
There are a LOT of people who were actively rooting for Diamond comics to fail. Well, your wishes appear to be coming true, as Diamond files for Chapter 11, and this is going to be TRULY dire news for the Direct Market, at least in the short and medium term. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
Diamond Comic Distributors Files Voluntary Petition for Relief Under Chapter 11
Diamond Comic Distributors (“Diamond” or “the Company”), today announced that it has filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Uni
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January 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
There are a LOT of people who were actively rooting for Diamond comics to fail. Well, your wishes appear to be coming true, as Diamond files for Chapter 11, and this is going to be TRULY dire news for the Direct Market, at least in the short and medium term. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
Well, today's OTHER news (of Diamond filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy) is probably going to strongly overshadow this, but my interview with Atom Freeman dropped this morning, and, looking through the archive, it appears this is THE longest show he has ever done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gP...
January 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Well, today's OTHER news (of Diamond filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy) is probably going to strongly overshadow this, but my interview with Atom Freeman dropped this morning, and, looking through the archive, it appears this is THE longest show he has ever done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gP...
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Our Adult GN Club pick for Jan '25 is I HEART SKULL CRUSHER! by @cozyjamble.bsky.social and Alessio Zonno. Interview on 1/19/2025 at youtube.com/live/W9S2svu.... Get a SIGNED copy at comix-experience.myshopify.com/collections/... and join club at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove...
January 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Our Adult GN Club pick for Jan '25 is I HEART SKULL CRUSHER! by @cozyjamble.bsky.social and Alessio Zonno. Interview on 1/19/2025 at youtube.com/live/W9S2svu.... Get a SIGNED copy at comix-experience.myshopify.com/collections/... and join club at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove...
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Our KIDS club for Jan '25 is a great book from master cartoonist Terry LaBan: MENDEL THE MESS UP. Get a copy: comix-experience.myshopify.com/collections/... and watch our interview on Sunday 1/26/2025 at 10am PST at youtube.com/live/WLlQNYH... Join up at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... !
January 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Our KIDS club for Jan '25 is a great book from master cartoonist Terry LaBan: MENDEL THE MESS UP. Get a copy: comix-experience.myshopify.com/collections/... and watch our interview on Sunday 1/26/2025 at 10am PST at youtube.com/live/WLlQNYH... Join up at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... !
HOW did Comix Experience do in 2024? WHAT are our best-sellers? WHO is buying the best comics? WHERE are the sales coming from? WHY do we love comics so much? All of these questions and more can be found at www.comixexperience.com/news/2024/12...
January 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
HOW did Comix Experience do in 2024? WHAT are our best-sellers? WHO is buying the best comics? WHERE are the sales coming from? WHY do we love comics so much? All of these questions and more can be found at www.comixexperience.com/news/2024/12...
Sunday 12/29 at 10am PST, please join us for the final Graphic Novel Club conversation of the year, as I am joined by the team supreme of @kierongillen.bsky.social and @stephaniehans.bsky.social to talk about the craft of comics, and WE CALLED THEM GIANTS. Watch it at youtube.com/live/XY9S-Ln...
December 28, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Sunday 12/29 at 10am PST, please join us for the final Graphic Novel Club conversation of the year, as I am joined by the team supreme of @kierongillen.bsky.social and @stephaniehans.bsky.social to talk about the craft of comics, and WE CALLED THEM GIANTS. Watch it at youtube.com/live/XY9S-Ln...
I think that's the fastest turnaround to publish my column... ever?
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Tilting at Windmills #299: The State of Comic Book Sales 2024
Retailer Brian Hibbs gives the state of comic book sales in 2024: it's good! But storm clouds are on the horizon.
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December 19, 2024 at 5:26 PM
I think that's the fastest turnaround to publish my column... ever?
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I just submitted the two hundred and ninety-ninth edition of TILTING AT WINDMILLS to @comixace.bsky.social . Dang.
December 18, 2024 at 8:00 PM
I just submitted the two hundred and ninety-ninth edition of TILTING AT WINDMILLS to @comixace.bsky.social . Dang.
Did I ever share the latest Pic by Katie Borrman for @comixexperience.bsky.social ? Damn, she goes from strength to strength!!!
December 9, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Did I ever share the latest Pic by Katie Borrman for @comixexperience.bsky.social ? Damn, she goes from strength to strength!!!
This is a VERY original graphic novel for our monthly selection.
Find out more at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... and get a GREAT monthly book, with an exclusive signed bookplate, and a livestreamed interview EACH AND EVERY MONTH, and support a great store at the same time.
Do it. Now!
Find out more at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... and get a GREAT monthly book, with an exclusive signed bookplate, and a livestreamed interview EACH AND EVERY MONTH, and support a great store at the same time.
Do it. Now!
Our Adult GN Club book for Dec '24 is WE CALLED THEM GIANTS from @imagecomics.bsky.social by @kierongillen.bsky.social and @stephaniehans.bsky.social! We have the joy of interviewing them on Sunday 12/29 at 10am PST. Watch live at youtube.com/live/XY9S-Ln... More details in following post....
December 1, 2024 at 8:53 PM
This is a VERY original graphic novel for our monthly selection.
Find out more at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... and get a GREAT monthly book, with an exclusive signed bookplate, and a livestreamed interview EACH AND EVERY MONTH, and support a great store at the same time.
Do it. Now!
Find out more at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... and get a GREAT monthly book, with an exclusive signed bookplate, and a livestreamed interview EACH AND EVERY MONTH, and support a great store at the same time.
Do it. Now!
You really have no idea how damn cute this selection is!
Join our kid's club at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... and get an amazing new book for your middle reader, with a sticker and a pin, and a livestreamed interview with the creators EACH AND EVERY MONTH. Makes a perfect gift, yo.
Join our kid's club at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... and get an amazing new book for your middle reader, with a sticker and a pin, and a livestreamed interview with the creators EACH AND EVERY MONTH. Makes a perfect gift, yo.
Our KIDS CLUB selection for Dec '24 is the cutest comic we have ever picked: DETECTIVE BEANS by New Zealand's Li Chen from @andrewsmcmeelkids.bsky.social ! Get a copy: comix-experience.myshopify.com/collections/... + watch our livestream interview Sun 12/15 at 10a PST at youtube.com/live/JfbNxoW...
December 1, 2024 at 8:51 PM
You really have no idea how damn cute this selection is!
Join our kid's club at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... and get an amazing new book for your middle reader, with a sticker and a pin, and a livestreamed interview with the creators EACH AND EVERY MONTH. Makes a perfect gift, yo.
Join our kid's club at www.comixexperience.com/graphic-nove... and get an amazing new book for your middle reader, with a sticker and a pin, and a livestreamed interview with the creators EACH AND EVERY MONTH. Makes a perfect gift, yo.
After 35 years of trying to successfully run a comic book store (of all silly things!) in a City that is addled by tech and brutal on being a small business, I am so very thankful to the many people who make it conceivable we could stay in business for another 35 years.
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November 28, 2024 at 8:41 PM
After 35 years of trying to successfully run a comic book store (of all silly things!) in a City that is addled by tech and brutal on being a small business, I am so very thankful to the many people who make it conceivable we could stay in business for another 35 years.
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Here is a pic sent to me by Michael Drivas (Serpico in this pic), who went on to open Big Brain Comics in mpls, with Rob Bennett (the Hesher) of @comixexperience.bsky.social in, let's say, 1992? Look at the wall of back issues then, or how GNs had a little room to be displayed and not just spines!
November 26, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Here is a pic sent to me by Michael Drivas (Serpico in this pic), who went on to open Big Brain Comics in mpls, with Rob Bennett (the Hesher) of @comixexperience.bsky.social in, let's say, 1992? Look at the wall of back issues then, or how GNs had a little room to be displayed and not just spines!
This is a damn fine book, from a damn fine cartoonist! Hope you can all watch on Sunday morning (11/24)
Stop! Hey, what's that sound? Oh, it's me interviewing the awesome Rick Parker on Sunday morning for the exceptional DRAFTED from Abrams Books! The livestream begins at 10am PST, and can be watched anytime after! Find the link in comments below. Sunday mornings are a GREAT time to talk comics!!
November 23, 2024 at 12:15 AM
This is a damn fine book, from a damn fine cartoonist! Hope you can all watch on Sunday morning (11/24)
Looking forward to this conversation on Sunday morning! youtube.com/live/DNes_lX...
November 17, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Looking forward to this conversation on Sunday morning! youtube.com/live/DNes_lX...
The big one is here: the 21st annual BookScan review! Find out what and how sold in 2023!
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Bookscan 2023: comics sales sag but Scholastic was a powerhouse
Marvel and DC had tough years in 2023, while Scholastic made up nearly 40% of book store comics sales, according to Brian Hibbs
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April 11, 2024 at 10:11 PM
The big one is here: the 21st annual BookScan review! Find out what and how sold in 2023!
www.comicsbeat.com/tilting-at-w...
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BIG NEWS: We’re honored to be interviewing legendary contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei for our February Graphic Novel Club! Celebrating Ai Weiwei’s new graphic memoir- ZODIAC.
Join the club before Feb 1st to receive a copy of the book signed by Ai Weiwei 🖋️!
www.graphicnovelclub.com/start
Join the club before Feb 1st to receive a copy of the book signed by Ai Weiwei 🖋️!
www.graphicnovelclub.com/start
January 19, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Ahhhhh!
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