A comic shop called Silver Snail, in Canada, used to have some really cool full page ads in comics like CEREBUS, ANDROMEDA and VORTEX. I ran across one of those ads (a full-page airbrushed suitable-for-framing thing by Ken Steacy) and decided to google it up. Sadly...
SILVER SNAIL COMICS TO CLOSE SEPTEMBER 13th... back in 2015, it appears to have suffered a similar fate as Bud Plant.
Too bad. It
looks to have been the comic store most of us dream of seeing.
Also...
http://holmoak.blogspot.com/2014/A nice nostalgic blog on the subject of Canadian comic shops in the area. Some nice recollections from a guy who worked in The Dragon Lady, another local store there, and one that I had some correspondence with in 1985-1986. A Canadian comic I purchased at the time, WORDSMITH (about a 1930's pulp fiction writer) was published by Dragon Lady Press.
The blog has photos from the 1970's and 1980's, along with covers of a lot of great stuff coming out at the time, of special interest to me the Canadian comics. And even pictures of writers and artists doing booksignings and conventions at the time, including Wrightson and Kaluta.
