Store Front
Years ago, I used to do Christmas windows when I lived in Fallbrook. I’d do silly cartoons on business windows… it was fun, but sometimes it would get darn right frigid while I was trying to paint! It’s hard to paint when your fingertips are frozen! Good times, though.
When we owned our comic book store back in the 80s, we commissioned a gifted artist from the nearby high school to do our windows. It always had a positive impact on our customers.
Hard to paint when your fingers are frozen, yes. Hard to paint when your paint is frozen, yes, yes. That window looks so much better than sporting the, likely already past, Going Out of Business sign, plus the ground is cleaned up…bonus. Not so sure about that bullet hole.
Hopefully, the building’s owner will pay for a new sign once the holidays are over, or will at least clean it up. Window cleaning anyone? Don’t want to attract any more bullet holes.
Pete.. Of course! YOU would own a comic book store! What was the name of it?
stick… How ’bout it… sadly, I’m nearly certain that someone will come by and carve their name in the paint.
It’s the thought that counts. There are all sorts of opportunists out there.
Being a good one is best.
Brig… We called our store Left-Half Comics. We were in Phoenix. We always hoped to enlarge it some and add on the name Right-Half Books. But after two years, we closed the store to move to the Philly area and take care of my wife’s grandmother and great aunt. We don’t regret closing the store to care for relatives, but they were two very enjoyable years.
I came across an old Foxtrot comic in reviewing some articles…offers insight into professional cartoonist minds.
http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2006/05/28
Pete… Left-half… he hee. I bet that was a fun venture. Maybe again someday?
On a happy note…. Salinas just got a bookstore back… It’s called the BookNook and it’s a used bookseller within another store… BUT, Salinas had no bookstore! So it is most Welcome!
stick… I dunno… I sit around with MY tooner pals and talk about our private jets & ridiculously large houses. What cartoonist doesn’t?
brig… Somewhere, somehow a cartoonist has likely drawn a mustache on Randie. Afterall, why should the guys get all the facial hair in your strip? Anyway, back to the window painting and the possibility of kids carving into it…
Next up: Randie gets a citation for graffiti. Merry Xmas from your friends at City Hall.
The window looks great! Thats much better than a depressing “going out of buisness”
sign in the window. Way to go Randy.