Bud Plant at 1982 Comic-Con (Photo by Alan Light)
San Diego Comic Fest is proud to welcome Bud Plant as our 2019 Dealer Guest of Honor!
Bud Plant has been actively collecting, buying, and selling comics, art, and art publications since 1968. He received a San Diego Comic-Con Inkpot Award in 1994. He is in Fifty Who Made DC Great (1985), Founders of Comics Fandom (2010), and Comics: Between the Panels (1998).
He opened his first comic store with six partners in 1968, co-owned a chain of seven comic stores from 1972-1988, and distributed comics and specialty items from seven warehouses in four states until he sold that portion of the business to Diamond Comic Distributors in 1988.
Bud exhibited at every San Diego Comic Con since the first in 1970 through 2017. He’s twice been on the Spectrum Jury panel and is on the advisory board. He’s helped publishers assemble books using his own collection as source material, and he provides input or advice to publishers on new projects.
Bud has never stopped collecting and learning about comics and art history. He’s pleased that his enthusiasm and interest can help introduce customers to new as well as vintage artists and collections. He uses “Recommended,” “Highly Recommended,” and “Our Highest Recommendation” to show his personal endorsement and enthusiasm for items that he is most excited about.