The title of the column, “World According to Griepp,” dates back to the Capital City Distribution days, when the column appeared in Internal Correspondence.  Let me know what you think – that’s why we built the comment function!

Several observers wrote about comic stores in recent weeks, trying to divine the future of the channel given recent sales setbacks.  Comics and graphic novel sales in comic stores were down over 10% last year, see “Year Ends on Down Note,” and continued to decline through the first quarter this year, although April sales turned upward (see “’Action Comics’ Is the Rainmaker in April”). 

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