Perhaps the Greatest Comic Book Store in the World

It's in Paris. It's called BD Spirit.

From a story in Publishing Perspectives...

“We don’t carry books that just sell well. Our positioning might be a little severe, but we want our books to fit into the history of comics,” said Manuel Morin, owner and co-founder of the shop, who has also served as a member of the Grand Jury at the renowned Angoulême comic book festival, which just ended this past weekend.

Comics are a serious business for 30-year-old Morin, who has been collecting and dealing comics since he was a child. As a history buff and a passionate comic collector he has merged his two interests — he sees comics in the context of history, as a barometer for society. But he’s not too serious that he can’t have a few laughs with a client who is buying old Marvel comics with which he is wallpapering his bathroom wall.

An only child with parents who were intellectual Communists, Morin was left to read whatever he liked and he gravitated towards comics. “Culture was very important for my parents, it was a sort of ideology, that you couldn’t leave culture to the bourgeois.”