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  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;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 *[[Telegraph Wire|ta Telegraph Wire]]* .

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