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Rocketship the 5 year old comic book store at 208 Smith Street closed for good today. Owner Alex Cox made a simple business decision according to The Daily Crosshatch:
“Our lease came up,” Cox tells me, “and we realized that we were either going to do this another five to 10 years, at which point it becomes a CAREER, in big letters, or not sign on again and do something different. That’s basically it. Of course, there are a thousand variables in there, all of which would be very boring and involved. In the end, the store was great to do for five years, but not something we wanted to be doing until we retired. So it was time to move on.”
Were you a regular at Rocketship? Are comics still relevant?
(via NYP and Brownstoner)
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