Shop Recommendations: Lisbon and Istanbul

[grubcubman]

Maybe a long shot: Does anyone have comic or book shop recommendations for Lisbon or Istanbul? Consider me an average Bubbles reader, if selection/taste affects the picks.

[teemcgee]

I went to Lisbon pre-pandemic and was pretty disappointed then to be honest - it has the cultural cachet of somewhere like Berlin, but not the comic book shops to match. I remember going to BD Mania in the center, which was pretty bog-standard - maybe there's some kind of art space that happens to stock zines and DIY stuff on the side, but I never found it.

[manoopuesta]

There's Kingpin Books also in Lisboa. It's a standar comic shop but at least they stock comics from Chili Com Carne (an alternative publisher from Lisboa), so there may be other interesting stuff in the store?
kbportugal.pt/bd-graphic-novels.html?q=Marca-CHILI+COM+CARNE

[BubblesZine]

I once sold some of my zines/books to: tintanosnervos.com/ in Libson

[grubcubman]

I'm in Portugal this week for a wedding and looked up Kingpin and Tinta Nos Nervos, and I picked the latter just because it was much closer to our hotel. Total delight! The shop its owner (I think), Pedro Moura, were great. Not gigantic, but really good selection.

Just a couple shots of the shop and the four books I picked up. Pedro recommend All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace as a good anthology of local artists, and he wrote Os Regressos. I'm really excited about Divide et Impera, a book of work from a 2009 exhibition called Impera and Divide (Charlottesville, 2009), which began with a smaller version in Portugal in 2007. And I'm totally taken with Francisco Sousa Lobo's book Palacio No. 3: brilliant cartooning and color. It's slow going (I don't speak Portuguese, so I'm translating on Google), but I really like it.

I'm hoping to go back to the shop later this week. No guarantees, but if anyone in the States really wants anything, drop me a line.

The shop is mostly two long shelves like this one.

Some more familiar stuff for reference.

My haul.

Palacio:

Os Regressos:

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace:

Divide et Impera:

[manoopuesta]

Nice haul!

I've got one book from Francisco Sousa, 'El Problema Francisco', that I really like. It's from the Spanish publisher Ediciones Valientes. And btw, it has English subtitles.