![]() “It doesn’t seem like a number you’d seize a business for, especially considering how many other businesses have back taxes that are significantly higher than this.”Īs unexpected as the city's move may have been, Norris is quick to take responsibility for the situation. Norris acknowledges that the city had come by Mutiny once a week for the last couple of weeks, leaving a card behind for him to get in touch regarding outstanding sales taxes that then topped just $31,000, but with all the things going on with Mutiny, he just hadn’t gotten around to calling them back. "If the delinquent taxes are paid, the city will rescind the distraint warrants." "The city’s preference is for our local, small businesses to succeed and remain open, and distraint warrants are only issued when other options for collection taxes owed to the City and County of Denver have been exhausted," explains Josh Rosenblum, spokesman with the Denver Department of Finance. “It would have been comical if it wasn’t so sad, me trying to load up a cat carrier and a beer cooler with some of my personal stuff.” September 22, city representatives showed up with a locksmith. “We’d gotten some letters, but I thought I had some time.”īut at around 1 p.m. “We had no idea this was coming,” Norris says of the city's seizure over the delinquent sales tax bill. While the GoFundMe doesn’t mention it, the chaos caused by the summertime vandalism of the front of the store couldn’t have helped, either. “Coming out of COVID has been hard on all small businesses and humans across the world,” the GoFundMe page notes, describing some of the reasons for Mutiny's current situation: not only the pandemic, but disruptions caused by co-owner Matt Megyesi’s near-fatal heart attack earlier this year. ![]() Now we're in this sort of Blues Brothers situation." It's been a comedy of errors getting to where we are right now. "It's overwhelming," says Mutiny co-owner Jim Norris. By mid-afternoon today, donations had already topped $24,000 in pledges.and counting. In quick response to the seizure, Mutiny set up a GoFundMe page late on September 22, with a goal of raising the $42,126 needed to settle its financial obligation to the city. But for now the doors are closed, and they will remain so until Mutiny comes to terms with the city.or the default becomes permanent and Mutiny is no more. For updated guest lists and more information about this free event, check out Mutiny’s web page.The building that houses Mutiny Information Cafe has been seized by the City of Denver for unpaid taxes. It happened, as these things tend to, both after a long slog and all of a sudden. Mutiny Con 2021 runs August 14 and 15 at Mutiny Information Cafe, 2 South Broadway. “Mutiny Information Cafe has always been here to showcase the brilliant local talent we have and to embrace the comic book pastime with a passion.” “We really want to show our appreciation to the fans and to the great comics community we have here in Colorado,” Foster says. Alan Brooks ( Burning Metronome and Anguish Garden) Dan Conner ( TMNT, My Girl Zombie) Jeffrey Peterson ( Cali Chronic Comix) Matt Wilson ( Mile High Misfits) Devon Wright ( Avantguardians) cosplayer Kristin Killtastic and many more. The guest list is still coming together, but already includes some popular local creators and performers: R. ![]() We will also be featuring the release of our very first Mutiny Information Cafe exclusive variant comic book cover. “Basically, we will have free comic book day, a few national and local comic book creators, comic vendors, an auction, trivia contest, cosplay, live music, standup comics and more. Mutiny Information Cafe When Foster saw that this year’s Free Comic Book Day was pushed back from May to August and COVID-19 restrictions were relaxing, he decided to do it again - and expand the event.
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