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Brian Hibbs

@savagecritic.bsky.social
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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.

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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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!
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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!
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Comix Experience @comixexperience.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A new sale each and every day this month from Comix Experience…. because we LOVE YOU nearly as much as WE LOVE COMICS!
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Comix Experience @comixexperience.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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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Comix Experience @comixexperience.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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!
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Today, Sat 2/1, the special is buy two, get the third for FREE on the ROMANCE shelf
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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...
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TERRY LaBAN for MENDEL THE MESS UP
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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...
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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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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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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Comix Experience @comixexperience.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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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Comix Experience @comixexperience.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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... !
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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...
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
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...
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I think that's the fastest turnaround to publish my column... ever? www.comicsbeat.com/tilting-at-w...
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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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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I just submitted the two hundred and ninety-ninth edition of TILTING AT WINDMILLS to @comixace.bsky.social . Dang.
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Did I ever share the latest Pic by Katie Borrman for @comixexperience.bsky.social ? Damn, she goes from strength to strength!!!
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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!
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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.
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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. (More)
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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!
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is a damn fine book, from a damn fine cartoonist! Hope you can all watch on Sunday morning (11/24)
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Looking forward to this conversation on Sunday morning! youtube.com/live/DNes_lX...
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
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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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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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
Ahhhhh!
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Comix Experience @comixexperience.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
We'll be going and doing a display; see you there? www.calacademy.org/nightlife/ni...
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NightLife: NightLife: Book Fair | California Academy of Sciences
Books should be read, not banned. Relive the nostalgia of a book fair, while hearing from a spectrum of voices.
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
The store is ready for Daniel Clowes on Sun 10/29. Watch the stream if you can't come? youtube.com/watch?v=7jqM...
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Timmy Heague loves comics and I love Timmy. #ComicsRetailersRule
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Comix Experience @comixexperience.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Sunday, October 29th, meet best-selling author Dan Clowes to support his incredible new book MONICA! Public signing at noon! At 10am (PST) , we host a conversation with Dan for members of our GN Club. Two seats still available, email brian@comixexperience.com or watch: youtube.com/live/7jqMlSY...
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
In my opinion, Lifford terrifically harmed DC Comics editorially. She was in charge when DC pulled out of Diamond, ushering the current free fall that the direct market is now facing. Maybe some of these awful decisions can now start to be reversed? www.comicsbeat.com/dc-comics-he...
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DC Comics head Pam Lifford departs Warner Bros. Discovery
Pam Lifford, who ran DC comics as the consumer products head since 2018, is leaving Warner Bros, while a new franchise exec is sought
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Sometimes I think I have the coolest job in comics... LOVE talking to cartoonists!
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
I am really looking forward to interviewing Ben Hatke tomorrow (Sun 10/22, 10a pst) for the smart and thrilling THINGS IN THE BASEMENT for our Kid's Graphic Novel Club! Watch the livestream at youtube.com/live/vI6PWRL... (or anytime afterwards)
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
I interviewed Clowes about 8 years ago, in the first 6 months of the Graphic Novel Clubs.... but the recording of that one is pretty terrible and lo-fi. So I am really really excited for a "re do"!
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
At the very least, Timmy and I will have a fun time talking comics!
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
I have way too many pictures of this goofball on my phone. It's Rollie!
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Brian Hibbs @savagecritic.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
I have never been great about actually USING the Twitter, but I am going to try harder over here
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