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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeSep 9th 2010
     
    A couple of months ago I went public with our woes. OK Comics had hit tough times because of the building renovation work going on around our retail outlet in Leeds City Centre.
    Upon hearing of our troubles a great many people stepped up to help, spreading the word, buying stuff from our shop and online. We saw regular customers buying more stuff than normal, old customers coming back to us for the first time in ages and new customers who'd only just heard about us coming in for the first time.

    It helped massively.
    We're definitely through the worst of it, but, though sales are picking up again, almost back to normal, the quiet time hurt us so bad that we've still got quite a lot of making up to do.
    But I'm confident that, with continued support from our awesome customers, we'll continue to supply comics and graphic novels for the foreseeable future.

    I'd like to thank EVERYONE involved in getting word out, everyone who blogged about it, everyone who tweeted or re-tweeted about it.
    I'd like to thank EVERYONE who came down and spent money. I was absolutely humbled by the support.

    Thanks to everyone on this forum, and those checking in with us through facebook and twitter.
    Thanks to Stephen Billings, Lee Scott Alasdair Stuart, Dave Balme, Stephen Holland at Page 45, everyone at Diamond Comic Distributors, Elliot Turner, Mike Bradbury, Simon Smith, Neil Donaldson, Jonathan Ross for re-tweeting about us to his thousands of followers and becoming our most famous customer, Rich Johnson for his piece on Bleeding Cool which exposed a lot of people to the situation, Richard Pride, Marc Ellerby, Gwen and Jamie, Peter Wood the property manager acting on behalf of our landlord, Bryan Talbot for his continuing good taste in graphic novels,, Alex Bales, Jason Thompson, Robert Cooper, all the guys at Geek Syndicate and Down the Tubes, Tom and Simon at Leeds Guide, and John Baron for his gamechanging piece for The Guardian.
    Special thanks have to go to John Kane and Carl Helstrom for donating their back issues to us. Your sacrifice hasn't gone unnoticed.

    This little message on this little website probably isn't enough everyone knows that we felt the impact of their involvement.

    Cheers, Jared
    OK
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeSep 9th 2010
     
    Awww, shucks! (looks embarrassed). It weren't nothin', Mister Jared, Sir. We need you as much as you need us!
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    Big hug!
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    The call went out across the universe…and it was answered!
    Thanks for your thanks but your continued existence is more than thanks enough.
    I hope you have Scott Walker’s “We Made It Through” playing on a loop in the shop. You deserve it.
    Best to all.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeSep 10th 2010
     
    And if you don't have that playing in the shop, could you have "You're The Best" by Joe 'Bean' Esposito from Karate Kid or "Win In The End" by Mark Safan from Teen Wolf? Actually, the latter would be better as you could get Oliver to dress in their basketball outfit...

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