Downtown Comic Book Store Bizarro-Wuxtry Prepares to Leave Its Space After 35 Years

From the moment you open Bizarro-Wuxtry’s sticker-mottled front door, you get the sense you’re crossing into a parallel dimension worthy of the store’s name.  Immediately past the countertop are freshly printed single issues from current series. Creaking further down the well-worn floorboards, you’ll find spinning drug store magazine racks dedicated to local Athens cartoonists. In the corner is an ample stock of collected underground oddities from the likes of Evan Dorkin and Daniel Clowes. Through a doorway on the right, you’ll find a musty-carpeted room bearing countless boxes, brimming with single issues that span comics history. From atop a shelf, a row of colorful, demented-looking “Bippy” carnival prize dolls from the 1960s watches over you. Back towards the front and […]

From the moment you open Bizarro-Wuxtry’s sticker-mottled front door, you get the sense you’re crossing into a parallel dimension worthy of the store’s name.  Immediately past the countertop are freshly printed single issues from current series. Creaking further down the well-worn floorboards, you’ll find spinning drug store magazine racks dedicated to local Athens cartoonists. In the corner is an ample stock of collected underground oddities from the likes of Evan Dorkin and Daniel Clowes. Through a doorway on the right, you’ll find a musty-carpeted room bearing countless boxes, brimming with single issues that span comics history. From atop a shelf, a row of colorful, demented-looking “Bippy” carnival prize dolls from the 1960s watches over you. Back towards the front and  Read More