Bud Plant Inc.

Bud Plant Inc. ya kasance mai rarraba kayan barkwanci na dillalai a shekarun 1970 da 1980 a lokacin da kasuwar kai tsaye ta bunƙasa. Kamfanin ya kuma buga wasu zaɓaɓɓun kayan barkwanci da na zines a wannan lokacin. Tun daga shekarar 1970 a matsayin mai rarraba kayan barkwanci na wasiƙa wanda ya ƙware a cikin kayan barkwanci na ƙarƙashin ƙasa, Bud Plant ya ɗauki wasu ƙananan abokan hamayyarsa a shekarun 1980, sannan ya sayar da kasuwancinsa ga Diamond Comics Distributors a shekarar 1988. Har yanzu, a matsayinsa na Bud Plant's Art Books, yana sayar da ingantattun bugu da littattafan zane-zane.

 Tarihi 

 Asalin 
Plant (an haife shi a shekara ta 1952)  ƙwararren mai zane-zane ne kuma mai sha'awar littattafan barkwanci  daga San Jose, California, wanda a tsawon shekarunsa na makarantar sakandare ya sayi kuma ya sayar da littattafan barkwanci ta hanyar talla a cikin shahararrun fina-finai kamar Rocket's Blast <i id="mwJw">/</i> ComicCollector . A shekara ta 1968 ya kafa Seven Sons Comic Shop tare da abokai biyar, John Barrett, Jim Buser, Mike Nolan, Frank Scadina, da Tom Tallmon, a San Jose. Sayar da Seven Sons cikin shekara guda, Plant tare da Barrett, Buser, da Dick Swan daga baya suka buɗe wani shagon barkwanci da ke San Jose mai suna Comic World a shekara ta 1969. 

A shekarar 1970, Plant ya kafa Bud Plant, Inc. a matsayin kamfanin yin odar wasiku wanda ya ƙware a fannin comix na ƙarƙashin ƙasa . (Adireshin Holly Drive ɗinsa ya bayyana a matsayin adireshin bugawa na fitowar farko ta Promethean Enterprises a shekarar 1969.) A shekarar 1971, Plant da abokansa biyar sun yi lokacin bazara suna sayar da barkwanci a manyan taruka a Houston, New York, Dallas, San Diego, Miami, Boston, da Washington, DC

Kamfanin Plant ya haɗu da Phil Seuling, wanda ya fara harkar kasuwanci kai tsaye a New York ComicCon a shekarar 1970. Nolan ya haɗu da Seuling a taron New York a shekarar da ta gabata, kuma ya shawo kan Barrett, Plant, da Scadina su yi tuƙi a cikin ƙasar a lokacin bazara na 1970 tare da tarin kayan wasan kwaikwayo da suka sayar a shekara mai zuwa. Scadina ta soke a minti na ƙarshe kuma Nolan ya ɗauki abokin aikinsa Larry Strawther, wani abokin aikinsa a Redwood City Tribune, a matsayin wanda zai maye gurbinsa. (Strawther daga baya zai zama marubuci-furanni a shirye-shiryen talabijin kamar Happy Days, Laverne &amp; Shirley, Night Court, da MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge .) Waɗanda suka yi tafiya a cikin ƙasar a cikin motar ɗaukar Barrett da harsashi, suna halartar zaman kashe-kashe a Oklahoma City, Cincinnati, New York da Houston;  A New York sun zama abokai na kud da kud da Seuling. Sun sake maimaita tafiyar a shekarar 1971, tare da Dick Swann tare da su a wannan karon. A ƙarshen shekarar 1973, Seuling ya kira Plant don ya sanar da shi cewa ya yanke yarjejeniyar jigilar littattafan barkwanci na Archie, DC, Marvel, da Warren daga wata sabuwar cibiyar rarrabawa a Sparta, Illinois . Seuling ya ba Plant yankin Yammacin Tekun, amma Plant ya ƙi shi, inda ya fi son mayar da hankali kan kasuwar comix ta ƙasa da ke yaɗuwa. 

 Bugawa 
Plant ya shiga fagen buga littattafai a shekarar 1969 a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin mawallafa uku, tare da Al Davoren da Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., na Promethean Enterprises - wani mai son fina-finai wanda ya yi ƙoƙarin ratsa iyakar barkwanci/comix. ( Promethean Enterprises ya kasance daga 1969 zuwa 1974.) A shekarar 1972, Plant ya karɓi nauyin buga littattafan Anomaly na fanzine daga Jan Strnad wanda ya buga littattafai uku tun 1969. Plant ya buga fitowa ta 4 ta Anomaly, inda ya mayar da ita barkwanci mai ban dariya a ƙarƙashin ƙasa.

A matsayin wani ɓangare na kamfaninsa na dillalan kayayyaki Comics & Comix ( duba ƙasa ), a cikin 1974, Plant ya buga bugu ɗaya na fim ɗin Barbarian Killer Funnies na ƙasa/ takobi da sihiri ; daga nan zuwa wani fim mai taken The First Kingdom, wanda Jack Katz ya rubuta kuma ya zana. (A ƙarƙashin sunayen wallafe-wallafe daban-daban, Plant ta buga bugu 24 na The First Kingdom, daga 1974 zuwa 1986.) Comics & Comix sun kuma buga bugu uku na littafin Jim Pinkoski na Spaced a 1974–1976; bugu biyu na Comics and Stories na Dan O'Neill a 1975; da kuma bugu biyu na Alfredo Alcala 's Magic Carpet a 1977–1978. 

A kusan shekarar 1978, Wendy da Richard Pini sun nemi Plant game da buga Elfquest, amma ya ƙi amincewa da ma'auratan, yayin da yake shirin fita daga harkar buga wallafe-wallafen barkwanci.  (Daga baya, Pinis ta buga aikinsu da kanta.)

Daga 1980 zuwa 1985, shagon sayar da kayayyaki na Plant Comics & Comix shi ma ya buga mujallar cinikin masana'antu ta Telegraph Wire .

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