You can help: Fantagraphics in trouble
May. 29th, 2003 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaIn 2002, LPC Distributors went bankrupt, owning hundreds of thousands of dollars to various small comics publishers. Last year, both Drawn and Quarterly and Top Shelf announced that they needed to sell a large amount of their warehouse stock to remain in business; the comics world rallied with their wallets, and saved them.
Fantagraphics Books is now suffering the same severe cash-flow problem. LPC Distributors owed Fantagraphics $70,000 in cash. This is not the first time that Fantagraphics has been screwed by a distributor declaring bankruptcy--it happened on a smaller scale in the early 1990s--but it's a pretty dire situation.
Their web site has more details, but the short version is that Fantagraphics needs to sell $80,000 in books in the next month or so or face closing. Poke around their catalog and marvel (pun intended) at the sheer volume and variety of stuff available. Almost any reader of comics or comic strips should be able to find something of interest from Fantagraphics. Really, Fantagraphics publishes something for everyone. I will give specific recommendations if asked. Check them out.
Fantagraphics Books is now suffering the same severe cash-flow problem. LPC Distributors owed Fantagraphics $70,000 in cash. This is not the first time that Fantagraphics has been screwed by a distributor declaring bankruptcy--it happened on a smaller scale in the early 1990s--but it's a pretty dire situation.
Their web site has more details, but the short version is that Fantagraphics needs to sell $80,000 in books in the next month or so or face closing. Poke around their catalog and marvel (pun intended) at the sheer volume and variety of stuff available. Almost any reader of comics or comic strips should be able to find something of interest from Fantagraphics. Really, Fantagraphics publishes something for everyone. I will give specific recommendations if asked. Check them out.
