{"id":5806,"date":"2009-02-17T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:07:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:07:46","slug":"chicago-paper-on-local-retail-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/chicago-paper-on-local-retail-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago paper on local retail situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spoke recently to the reporter for the Northwest Herald<\/span>, a suburban Chicago paper, for her piece on the local comics scene<\/span><\/a>, recently posted. The reporter interviewed Al Armstrong<\/span> of Al n\u2019 Ann\u2019s Collectibles<\/span> in McHenry on surviving in the recession. \u201cWe\u2019re established, and we\u2019ve got a really solid customer base,” Armstrong said. “I don\u2019t see us going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reporter also interviewed the former owner of two Overload Comics and Collectibles<\/span> locations in Fox River Grove and Cary, who had turned to internet sales after closing down. \u201cIt was a passion, and I just went for it,\u201d Michael Knick<\/span> said. \u201cUnfortunately, the market has changed, and it\u2019s gone in a bad direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reporter Sarah Sutschek<\/span> appears to have looked closely at other closures to find their real reasons; she told me she’d decided not to mention the closing of one store, whose owner had died. Not all “recession watch” stories go that far; but in comics, where so many businesses are owner-operator, it’s best never to assume a closure was market related. (I couldn’t stop the “Biff! Pow! Bam!” headline, though, for which the moratorium should have begun 20 years ago by my watch…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spoke recently to the reporter for the Northwest Herald, a suburban Chicago paper, for her piece on the local comics scene, recently posted. The reporter interviewed Al Armstrong of Al n\u2019 Ann\u2019s Collectibles in McHenry on surviving in the recession. \u201cWe\u2019re established, and we\u2019ve got a really solid customer base,” Armstrong said. “I don\u2019t … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116,60,33],"class_list":["post-5806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics-shops","tag-media-reports","tag-state-of-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5807,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions\/5807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}