shelf space for your zines

Last week, a small shop in Connecticut contacted me. Rick Roden owns the shop, named i-pop. He designs and prints posters, CD packaging/flyers for local bands, sells old movie posters and other ephemera, designs and prints custom stationary and sells a few pre-designed items the shop has come up with.

Anyway, i-pop’s customers have asked on numerous occasions for Rick to carry zines alongside his greeting cards, posters and other fun paper stuff. Rick came across ZineWiki (note that most pages there do not include contact info), which is where he found Fall of Autumn and me and asked about buying zines wholesale. FoA doesn’t sell wholesale. Instead of passing along contact information for a ton of zinesters (and possibly for people who don’t want contact information passed on), I told him I’d post this in a few zine communities/blog posts (so forgive the x-posting later today).

Rick would like to carry your zines in his store.

i-pop is open 11am-6pm Tues-Sat. Before opening his print shop, Rick owned an indie comic book store. Which he ran successfully until it became, as he put it, “a pokemon weigh station/church of superman pretty much overnight.”

I’ve spent the last week talking to him via email and he seems like a stand-up guy with a decently run shop. I haven’t sold or bought or traded with him however, so please don’t hold me responsible should any future dealings go sour.

If you’d like to sell your zines at Rick’s shop, i-pop, here’s all of his contact info (posted with his permission):

i-pop
20 Canal St.
Putnam, CT 06260
orders@ipopco.com

Also, distros who sell wholesale should feel free to contact him as well.