What sells, and where?

It’s a couple of days old, but I found this comment at Journalista to be really interesting. It’s a very well-informed compare-and-contrast between what sells in comic shops and what sells in bookstores:

“I have a comic book shop, my girlfriend owns a bookstore. Here’s a quick list of what we’ve found:

“Naruto sells well everywhere.”

Okay, there’s a lot more, but given the big news of the day, I couldn’t resist. Anyway, go read, especially if you’re geek-ishly interested in the different audiences between the two kinds of retail outlets.

(Also, it’s kind of gruesomely fun to imagine creators rolling out comic-shop friendlier versions of work like Fun Home. I’m easily amused.)