Grand opening of the new Comics Centre 28th of August from 12-16! You are all welcome!
Goodbye Kallio
The Kallio store is moving to Arabia and the grand opening of the new Sarjakuvakeskus will be on 28th of August. Pitkämies 2 will continue as before but has now the extensive music collection (as in: all the second hand vinyls). Friday 13th of august I opened the store in Kolmas Linja for the last time, sold some comics and records and closed it up for good. It's the end of an era, at least to me. Kallio was a nice area to run a store in. Contrary to popular belief, Kallio isn't made up out of drunken punks or crazy drug users, more like the opposite, during my 2,5 year stint here I only once had to throw out somebody because of misbehaviour.
There is no big secret behind our move to Arabia: the whole place will go under construction for about a year and we had no choice but to move out. Since no suitable and equally big space was found in the Kallio area, the place opening up in Arabia across the road from Taik seemed like a perfect option.
So Pitkämies says goodbye to Kallio. As a special service to some diehard Kallio fans who refuse to leave their comfortable zome, i will personally delivery comics to the Kallio area. Just give me a call with your desired goods and we schedule a delivery time. This service will end on october 1st. The telephone number, by the way, is on top of this page
But the new Sarjakuvakeskus will be pretty awesome, first of all you will find there the selection of Pitkämies, in a nice environment. I will put some more effort in displaying personal favourites, highlighting new interesting arrivals and basically forcing the goods on all the poor souls that step into the store. I have also recently purchased a nice batch of second hand comics that will be all for the first time for sale during the opening party.
But to top things off, the Sarjakuvakeskus will be opening up also its own coffeeplace, which is something that the area has been in dire need of (or so it seems judging from the reactions of locals i have heard). The opening hours are a bit different: open every day of the week from 10 til 6. Once per month also open on saturdays, but be sure to check the Sarjakuvakeskus or Pitkämies facebookpage to be up to date of upcoming events
In other news: Huuda Huuda is publishing a great set of comic books this fall. We will be having our own stand at the comic festival and have 7 new books out and then during the bookfair we will push out 4 more new books. More about these when they are physically available from Pitkämies!
Jelle
