Anyone Comics is closing – and reopening around the nook!

Anyone Comics in Brooklyn opened in 2017 and has change into one in every of New York City’s most progressive retailers beneath proprietor Dimitrios Fragiskatos. It’s additionally change into a neighborhood hub due to an occasion house in its basement that turned a clubhouse for the native comics contingent.

It additionally spun off right into a Queens sister store, Everyone Comics, co-owned by Fragiskatos and Alex Rae.

When Dimitrios Fragiskatos based Anyone in 2017, the dream was to create a hub, an area the place comics and artwork will be created, in addition to bought.

The considering was that if extra folks could be inspired to make artwork, they might develop an appreciation for the comics around them. Due to no small half by it’s completed basement, Anyone Comics supplied a singular expertise because it turned the place you’ll be able to choose up your comics upstairs, and be part of Drink N Draw, or be part of Magic the Gathering, or play a session of Dungeons and Dragons, or drop off your children for an artwork class, or choose up your free comics on FCBD and go to a miniature conventions with  native comedian artists downstairs!

 

The gamble paid off and the enterprise reached new heights in 2021, main into an funding in a second retailer in Queens known as Everyone Comics and Collectibles!

 

But 2022 proved to not be a superb yr to develop. The development of gross sales and occasion attendance in 2021 was overestimated, and enterprise decreased whereas prices and rents have gone up, and whereas Everyone continues to develop (albeit slowly), Anyone was shedding cash.

 

Anyone Comics grew due to the neighborhood it was part of. The late cartoonist, John Curtis Jennison was regularly related to the retailer having hosted quite a few occasions and inspiring different folks to observe their artistic paths. The function taking part in recreation teams that performed right here spawned friendships and relationships {that a} company poster selling variety would dream of! The retailer printed the Access Guide to the Black Comic Book Community in 2021, a e book that may function a portal to supporting small Black companies and indie creators in comics.

 

Anyone Comics is relocating around the nook to 831 Nostrand Ave with an anticipated reopening date on Wednesday December 13 (though subscribers can be allowed to select up their pull lists earlier than then). Although the total sq. footage of the house will downgrade, the gross sales ground itself will develop, with a robust risk of sustaining at the least a few of the occasions hosted together with gaming. The transfer reduces their prices by 43% with a brand new lease signed for 10 years.