comics dvds pop culture founded boston massachusetts u.s. 1978 founder john brusger mike dreese 1 headquarters boston massachusetts u.s. number of locations 29 area served northeast subsidiaries hootenanny website www.newburycomics.com newbury comics flagship store on newbury street in boston massachusetts newbury comics in north dartmouth newbury comics van outside the newbury comics store in harvard square newbury comics is a new england based music retailer . newbury comics began as a comic book vendor on newbury street in boston . the company was founded in 1978 by massachusetts institute of technology students john brusger and mike dreese . over the next few years the focus of the company changed from comics to music although comic books are still sold at stores in limited amounts . dreese also published boston rock a music tabloid which was active from 1980 to 1987 that focused on punk new wave and indie bands . there are now 28 stores in five new england states four in new hampshire two in rhode island one in maine one in connecticut and twenty in massachusetts . in august of 2016 newbury comics opened its 29th store its first outside of new england at roosevelt field mall in garden city new york . since the late 1980s newbury comics has been a vendor of new and used cds lps and dvds and other pop culture related goods . newbury comics sells lps cds singles and dvds . it also offers comics posters t shirts trading cards action figures buttons sports merchandise jewelry cosmetics novelties and more . many locations also sell high end and or punk style clothing . the chain also had a sister store called hootenanny which mostly sold punk style clothing located one floor below the newbury comics in harvard square . hootenanny closed in may 2012 while the flagship newbury comics banner is altering its product mix to include more fashion . newbury comics stores are also gradually shifting from strip centers to mall locations . 2 contents 1 notable employees 2 company logo in popular culture 3 references 4 external links notable employees edit andy bonner of the boston band piebald worked for years at both the harvard square and alewife locations . the band s king of the road includes the lyrics andy went back to school . he got sick of newbury comics . valerie forgione of mistle thrush is the company s executive vice president 3 joe guese guitarist of the click five worked at the flagship newbury comics briefly before joining the band rob hamilton and chris pearson of green magnet school worked at the framingham store and the warehouse respectively when the band was signed to sub pop records . aimee mann worked at the original newbury street location before gaining prominence with her band til tuesday . 3 jon syverson alexis s.f. marshall and samuel moorehouse walker of daughters have worked at the providence and north attleboro locations . chris pupecki doomriders black tail & ex cast iron hike worked at the natick store . johnny earle founder of clothing line johnny cupcakes worked at newbury comics where he would secretly sell shirts out of his car on bathroom breaks . citation needed jon strader guitarist of the band no trigger worked at the shrewsbury location . paul degeorge of harry and the potters worked at various stores including both cambridge locations . mark mckay drummer of hardcore punk band slapshot was a manager of several newbury comics stores and worked in the it department as well as working for interscope records . ryan mckenney and brian izzi of the band trap them worked at the salem nh store . company logo in popular culture edit in the movie hatchet 2007 star joel moore spends much of the film in a blood spattered newbury comics t shirt . in reaction to this newbury comics started selling special hatchet t shirts like the one in the movie . the tooth face logo t shirt is featured in the second issue of the bulletproof coffin comics from image comics . in the fifth and sixth season opening credits for sabrina the teenage witch sabrina portrayed by melissa joan hart is seen walking out of the store on newbury street . references edit http www.cmw.net cmw2004 spmike dreese.htm newbury comics it s always morph or die publishers weekly april 6 2012 a b dreese seriously enjoys comics biz michael saunders and jim sullivan boston globe d4 december 5 2000 . external links edit newbury comics official website 2008 interview with mike dreese on well rounded radio retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title newbury comics & oldid 743301674 categories companies based in bostonmusic retailers of the united statesprivately held companies based in massachusettsretail companies established in 1978retail companies of the united stateshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2009 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view 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