Duncan Browne, director of field operations and business administration of the 28-unit Newbury Comics chain, says the pandemic has "been a whopper of a curveball" for his business. Duncan Browne, director of field operations and business administration of the 28-unit Newbury Comics chain, has a long career in the music industry, which began when he and a friend opened a record store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the 1970s.
He soon moved to Los Angeles to work with the Wherehouse chain where he eventually became the head buyer, followed by jobs with several one-stops and indie distributors in California.
In 1980, he returned to Massachusetts to become GM of Rounder Records, where he helped start and worked with two joint-venture indie.