Walter Durajlija

Walter Durajlija

Walter Durajlija is an Overstreet Advisor and Shuster Award winner. He owns Big B Comics in Hamilton Ontario.

A New Beginning

Happy New Year. I hope 2024 brings everyone health and happiness… and a few comics off the want list. I’m getting the feeling that the comic book collecting hobby is at some sort of crossroads, some junction that offers multiple…

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TGIF

In last week’s post I wrote about CGC having way less comic book submissions and questioned how they were handling it financially. This week I’d like to turn the same question towards the comic book auction houses. The big players…

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Check Up

It was over a year ago: I remember bugging CGC to extend the amount of time they leave their invoice numbers available to be referenced by submission accounts like mine. I think in the old days those invoices were available…

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The Kitchen

Here’s the kitchenette at the new warehouse. I’m hoping soon to stock it with stuff like bread, cheese, jams and peanut butter. For now, all that booze will have to carry us through. I’ll probably have to hide those bottles…

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Office Hours

For some reason my mind wanders to those old Private Eye movies where the stencil guy is putting up the gumshoes name on the door to the office. “Jay and Walt – listers for hire”, doesn’t quite have that ring…

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Swift Decline

Nothing jolts you into the realization that this new warehouse is where it’s at and where it’s gonna be for a while like giving the landlord 12 postdated rent cheques. I swear I had a super productive day after I…

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Moving and Shaking

As I’ve mentioned before, we are moving warehouses, we have until October 31st to clear out the place we’re in now. Last Thursday we had a Bargain Bin sale at the warehouse: anyone interested in buying complete boxes of backstock…

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Nonaligned

There were a couple of one day comic cons happening yesterday and I was getting sporadic reports. One show was in Ottawa and another in Toronto. According to the reports coming in the shows were similar in these ways: bins…

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Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian listeners. Chris and I are always thankful whenever we get together to pal around and have fun with all things comics. We’re also very thankful for your continued support. I had a few extra…

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Coffee Run

My morning routine is to hit the drive through on my way to work. I grab a large black coffee and then struggle drinking for the next 10 minutes as I navigate the bumps, turns, starts and stops all the…

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