Xavier Lancel runs CROÂfunding, a bookshop based in Lille, France, with a big difference. It sells crowdfunded comic books, and that's it.
runs SCARCE Magazine in France, a fanzine that specialises in American comic books, and reported for Bleeding Cool from Angouleme most years. But of late, he has found a very different business to dive into – and it is remarkable that no one else has thought of this before. I bumped into him in a London comic book mart earlier in the year and what he has accomplished has been running around my head since. CROÂfunding is a bookshop based in Lille, France, with a big difference.
CROÂfunding also does not do returns, commissions or deposits, only firm purchases from publishers. Nothing is promoted to appear in the shop. Each work is there because Marcel Xavier thinks it should be. CROÂfunding only offers around 120 different books at a time but is distinct as a bookstore and comic books store, as offering titles that you just can't find anywhere else, even if you've heard of them.
I think it's a great idea and see no reason why it couldn't be replicated. Crowdfunded comics, especially in their exclusive editions, are impossible to find after the campaign has concluded. Some books get picked up by big publishers. many do not, and a place that allows you to browse through a hundred such graphic novels that won't make it onto any other bookshelves feels like an idea whose time has come.
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