One customer devastated to hear news of the impending closure is author Michael Chabon who said, “Dark Carnival’s stock-in-trade has fed my work and my imagination.”
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A brotherly business: Bookstore Fantastic Comics
When chatting with Paul Kilduff in The Monthly’s June issue about the changing face of downtown Berkeley, San Francisco Chronicle writer and Berkeleyan John King mentioned in passing the demise of Shattuck Avenue’s Comic Relief. “…I guess the comic bookstore closed because the guy who had it forever has just run out of steam,” King […]
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Comic Relief spawns a second comics book store
Uel Carter: set to open a new comics store in the space of an old one Another comics store is rising out of the ashes of the defunct Comic Relief. Just six weeks after Comic Relief abruptly shut its doors, a former employee has plans to open a new store in the exact same location. […]
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The Escapist comic book store opens on Claremont
Enthusiasts packed The Escapist for last night's opening/Photos: Tracey Taylor The Escapist, the comic book store that rose from the closing of Comic Relief, opened last night at 3090 Claremont Avenue, a couple of doors down from Dark Carnival, the specialists science fiction, fantasy and mystery bookstore that bought the old store’s stock. An enthusiastic […]
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Comic bookstore The Escapist to open on Claremont Ave.
Coming soon: The Escapist comic bookstore. Photo: Scott Mace. Michael Chabon will be happy. A new comic bookstore, whose name was inspired by a character in one of Chabon’s own novels, will open soon just a hop and a skip away from his Berkeley home in the Claremont neighborhood. Jack Rems, owner of science fiction […]
