Kilgore Books & Comics is the brainchild of Luke Janes and Dan Stafford. One night over beers, one asked the other, ‘What’s your dream job?’ When the answer came back, ‘Well, owning a used bookstore,’ the other nearly fell off the bench and said, ‘me too!’ and a dream was born. 

With a love of used books, great literature and independent comics, the two spent two years buying books and comics in every nook and cranny they could get in to, and on June 1, 2008 opened their doors to the public, nestles snugly between Wax Trax’s CD and vinyl shops on thirteenth. 

Luke, a Michigan native and graduate of Calvin College moved to Denver five years ago, and worked at Capital Hill Books until opening Kilgore. 

Dan hails from upstate New York, where he finished 1/2 a degree in filmmaking at Bard College before spending fourteen years in the non-profit environmental field.