Thorp and Sailor's Grave Board

RIP - Brooklyn Monster Factory

XHonusWagnerX - 10-29-2010 at 01:57 PM

from Facebook....

On Sunday Oct 31st, The Brooklyn Monster Factory will be closing it's doors after 4 & 1/2 years of business. THANK YOU to everyone who supported the store. It is because of
you we lasted as long as we did. We will be open today, tomorrow & on Halloween. Stop in & say goodbye! * A new comic shop will be at the same location as of Weds Nov 3rd. If you have a pull list with the BMF, your books will be there on Weds*



Really sorry Mike! I hope whatever you do next works out for you.

lifeisabitch - 10-29-2010 at 03:14 PM

Fuck man that sucks
Sorry Mike...

Discipline - 10-29-2010 at 03:21 PM

Shitty. Keep yer head up Mike.

Six66Mike - 10-29-2010 at 05:01 PM

A note from facebook:
Quote:
I will be working at the Brooklyn Monster Factory tomorrow 10/30, but it will be for the last time. As of Sunday Oct 31st, The Brooklyn Monster Factory will be closing it's doors after 4 and a half years of business. I want to say thank you to everyone and anyone who supported the store. It is because of you we lasted as long as we did. Things got rough in late 2008 when the recession started and never got all that much better for the shop.My brother Jon and I did something that many people never get to do, and for that we are thankful.



A new comic shop will be opening officially on Weds Nov 3rd, but it will not be the Brooklyn Monster Factory.

The BMF will live on in the form of conventions and Ebay for now. Again, thanks for all of the support. I will have a BMF table at the King Con in Park Slope Nov 6th and 7th at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Stop by and say hello.



Michael Scondotto

BDx13 - 10-29-2010 at 11:26 PM

sorry to hear the news.
but a new comic shop in the same spot?

CR83 - 10-30-2010 at 12:00 AM

Sorry to hear Mike. Please keep your head high my friend

XnMeX - 10-30-2010 at 09:36 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BD
but a new comic shop in the same spot?


Yeah, that is the part I don't get... If the BMF is closing for some reason, why have another comic shop go in? I know the BMF was more than just a comic shop so how would just a comic shop last?

MikeFromInhuman - 10-31-2010 at 04:37 PM

Hey guys,
First of all, thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it.

Second, yes, a new comic store will be taking it's place, one not owned by my brother Jon and I.

What happened is - we could no longer afford to keep the store open.
Around late 2008/early 2009 things sales started going downhill and in many ways, it never really got better.
My brother Jon has been the one to float the most of his own personal money and his job situation changed and of course, his money situation changed. It was getting to a point where thousands of dollars were put in, never to be recovered and on top of it, we would lose a regular customer here and there and the weekly order payments were way more than what the store would make in a week. Comics are C.O.D. each week and can't be returned, so what you have that doesn't sell, is yours for eternity.

We wound up selling the store for X amount of money (we made zero on the sale, it is all going to back rent, taxes etc) to a customer who at one point was going to open a shop in a different part of Brooklyn, but that deal fell through and my brother and I made the decision about 2 weeks ago to sell to him and his partner. As of this Weds, a new shop "Brooklyn Comics and More" opens where BMF once stood.

BUT - The Brooklyn Monster Factory is not done.
As a matter of fact, I have a table at a convention in Brooklyn next week called The King Con.
I will be doing Ebay, comic and record conventions and sell to any comic reader on any of the boards I post on via Pay Pal.

Send me your want lists, I have THOUSANDS of books! INH722@yahoo.com

So yeah, I will be ok.
Am I sad? Of course I am, it was 4 and a half years of my life.
But I made great friends, had a lot of fun and will still be reading and selling comics.
And I am in 2 bands, I just need a REAL job haha!

The people on the Thorp board are awesome, thanks again for the kind words.


MCS
INHUMAN/THE LAST STAND/BMF



XHonusWagnerX - 10-31-2010 at 04:58 PM

You should look into the Boston SUPER MEGA FEST. Its coming up in a few weeks, but maybe you can get a deal on an unbooked table. its one of the few conventions I go to every year. Its not actually IN Boston, its in Framingham, MA, but its a pretty big show.

http://www.supermegafest.com/

Good luck Mike!!

BDx13 - 11-1-2010 at 09:48 AM

You obviously had a blast running bmf and nearly five years of running your own shop is certainly something to be proud of. Put the headaches behind you and concentrate on the great memories! And honestly, being able to sell the business was a great opportunity.

REV.PAULIE - 11-2-2010 at 05:16 AM

Not that I ever went there (Or,a lot of places,for that matter..),I'm sorry to see you losing your lot...I know that you'll march on with your quest!!! You've been too immersed in this NYHC thing that we've got to be smart enough to get out!!! YOU COULDN'T LEAVE IT IF YOU TRIED!!! It may leave YOU,sometimes...But,we're still here for a reason...

When I figure THAT out,I'll let everyone know...

And then - It's BACK TO WORK!

Paulie

MikeFromInhuman - 11-2-2010 at 01:15 PM

Ha thanks Paul!

I take NYHC with me everywhere...for better or worse!

MCS