Dragon Lady Comics

Dragon Lady Comics was a

Shifts in the comics market and the lingering effects of the 2008 recession negatively affected the store's profitability, and a rent increase forced its closure early in 2012.[3]

The store itself was split in two, the new comics and graphic novel business was relocated a few doors east under a new business name and new owner Kevin Boyd - The Comic Book Lounge and Gallery, located at 587A College Street, while the back issues and paper nostalgia went with Biernat back to his home in Kitchener, ON.^[4]

In popular culture

Dragon Lady Comics is mentioned in Margaret Atwood's 1993 novel, The Robber Bride.

The Dragon Lady Comics storefront is shown in the background of the 2011 film Take This Waltz at minute 107.

See also

• The Beguiling
• The Silver Snail

References

External links

• "Surveying the comics craze" - CBLT news segment, original airdate 23 June 1979.
• "The End of An Era: Toronto’s Dragon Lady Comics to close in early 2012" -
  Joe Shuster Awards
  Canadian Comics Awards, News and Links, 2 February 2012 (Kevin Boyd)
• "Toronto’s Dragon Lady Comics to close" - Toronto Star, 4 January 2012 (David Graham).
• "Dragon Lady Comics set to enter the deadpool" - BlogTO, 4 January 2012 (Igor Bonifacic)
• "Panoramaist: Dragon Lady Comics" - Torontist, 5 January 2012, photos by Tony Makepeace
• "The End is Nigh for Dragon Lady Comics" - Torontist, 5 January 2012, (Laura Godfrey)
• "Dragon lady's last flame"^{[permanent dead link]} - Financial Post, 4 February 2012
• " "The Last Days of Dragon Lady Comics" - National Post, 4 February 2012
• "The Start of an Era? As Dragon Lady closes the Comic Book Lounge + Gallery opens" -
  Joe Shuster Awards
  Canadian Comics Awards, News and Links, 21 January 2012 (Kevin Boyd)
• "The Comic Book Lounge + Gallery to open 2/8/2012" - Comic Book Lounge website, 21 January 2012 (Kevin Boyd)