Partners and Son

One of my favorite book stores in Philly! Extremely friendly/knowledgeable store manager.
Mar 5th, 2024

Dec 12th, 2023

wonderful!!! I cant wait to return. Amazing selection of books/ comics/ zines. Must visit in Philly!!
Aug 23rd, 2023

Jun 16th, 2023

We have a few nice comic shops in town and you will know within an instant whether this is a comic shop you belong in or not. In our household, this is the shop where my wife famously purchased a nicely bound book of a tremendous amount of lines in different patterns (forever known by our teenaged child as "the book with all the lines"). Look, it's like some of that skronky jazz. If you don't "get" it, you have to assume the people who do are not playing a trick on you. For my part, I have never felt quite at ease in this store. It's got that liminal space feel, like you're walking down an endless hall, thinking about the things you have done. The walls absorb all noise, you can hear the blood rushing in your ears. It will remind you of your friends who talk too much about Chicago and how great it is, but you remember the time you were there in winter and how your beard froze and people seemed so miserable. Weather can kill you in a place like that, I tell you. If you are me, you can go here and get your Jesse Jacobs, your occasional Schuiten, your Decadence Press, your Woodring and Burns and Al Columbia. They carry the great Hollow Press. If you're my wife, you buy the books with lines; look, she's got the artist's eye, she has all the credibility in the world. And if you're the comic book person that has that terribly withering internal critic, the one that poisons you inside, the one I always associate with Comics Journal kooks, this is your place too. I docked a star because it really needs music or something to be playing. In Atomic City there's going to be music, there's going to be an atmosphere, some young guy is going to be too loudly proclaiming his love for the Flash. I'm still charmed by that, I still have years left to live on this earth. At this place, you just know you're going to get Pavement or whatever. Like I said, you'll know in an instant.
Jul 27th, 2023