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Rose City Comic Con

Oregon Convention Center 777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Portland’s premier pop-culture event, Rose City Comic Con is produced locally with a focus on creating a fun and friendly event for everyone! While our primary focus is that of comics, comic creators, and the creative process, Rose City Comic Con also provides its attendees with access to gaming, sci-fi, cosplay, anime, fantasy, and everything in between. Our goal is to provide you with a rewarding, fun, and family-friendly event experience. Plans for the 2019 Rose City Comic Con are under way — stay tuned for more details!

$35 – $700

Book Happy Hour Sale

Belmont Books 3415 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

After a day of marching in solidarity in support of Global Climate Strike, we will open at 4pm today with Book Happy Hour. Stop by, warm up, browse books and sip our French 75 Punch. $2 off books on film, plays, and screenplays. $1 off all other books.

Free

TRUE NORTH STUDIOS OPEN HOUSE AND ARTS SWAP MEET

True North Studios 455 NE 71st Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

We are finally ready to have friends over to our new space! FRIST FRIDAY OCT 4th 6-9 TRUE NORTH STUDIOS OPEN HOUSE AND ARTS SWAP MEET with DJ Domino Pop FREE Free to vend arts, crafts, vintage, vinyl, home goods, care goods, sellables etc! Come out to this new rad community event that will be reoccurring every 1st Friday for the rest of 2019. Vending is 1st come 1st serve Vendors need to bring their own tables, chairs, displays etc. Shoot us an email at Hello@truenorthstudios.com to lets us know your coming -or- just show up ✌ Membership and Studio Space Available! Visit truenorthstudios.org .

Free

3rd Annual East Portland Arts & Literary Festival

Orchards of 82nd 8188 SE Division St, Portland, OR, United States

Will we see you at 3PALF — oops, we mean, EPALF? Our third annual festival featuring artists and cultural workers of color will animate two community hubs in East Portland: Orchards of 82nd (O82), APANO’s brand-new home and community space, and Fubonn, the largest Asian grocery store and shopping center in Oregon! Spanning October 4-5th, EPALF will feature a spectrum of live performances, interactive creative activities, a full family-friendly lineup, and more at O82, plus our hallmark Book & Craft Fair at Fubonn. Join us in celebrating local artists, entrepreneurs, and small business owners in East Portland through this signature event. Suggested donation is $5, and no one will be turned away from lack of funds. Hosted by APANO’s Arts & Media Project. WITH PERFORMANCES…

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Free – $20

Fall Used Book Sale

Lloyd Center DoubleTree Hotel Exhibit Hall 1000 NE Multnomah St., Portland, OR, United States

Members Only Pre-Sale Friday, October 4, 6pm-9pm We’ll have a roster of current members at the sale door and memberships will be available for purchase/renewal at the sale. General Sale Saturday, Oct 5, 9am-9pm  - Literary Trivia and Bar 6pm-9pm Sunday, Oct 6, 11am-5pm - 50% off with Educator ID Monday, Oct 7, 9am-3pm - $25/box or 50% EVERYTHING Collector's Corner Friday and Saturday only Location Lloyd Center DoubleTree Hotel Exhibit Hall 1000 NE Multnomah St., Portland, Oregon 97232 Getting There Easy TriMet and MAX access - Lloyd Center stop serviced by Red, Blue, and Green MAX lines. Parking available on street and in the on-site parking garage. $3 parking vouchers available. The Selection Thousands of donated books and materials - well sorted • Gently…

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Free

Glom Press and Walker Mettling print show and pop-up shop

Floating World Comics 1223 Lloyd Center, Portland, OR, United States

Glom Press, a small press comics publisher and Risograph printer based in Melbourne, Australia, comes to Floating World to present their work. This includes a recent series of graphic novellas by emerging and established Australian artists, a series of prints by the same, as well as the latest releases by Glom Press founders Marc Pearson and Michael Hawkins. The print show includes works by: Sam Wallman, Mary Leunig, Safdar Ahmed, Meg O’Shea, Bailey Sharp, Ben Juers, Merv Heers, Mira Schlosberg, Carolyne Wylds, Marlo Mogensen, Urbigfrog & Michael Fikaris. Walker Mettling is a cartoonist, printmaker, and since 2010 he’s directed the Providence Comics Consortium, an experimental education-based intergenerational comics micro-publisher which teaches comics classes at public libraries and publishes a huge array of comics, zines and books! In 2017…

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Free

X-Men #1 Midnight Release Party at Bridge City Comics!

Bridge City Comics 3725 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on Tuesday, October 15 starting at 11:00pm for our X-Men #1 Midnight Release party! We can’t sell any new releases until 12:01am but you can definitely get your stack ready! In addition to the regular cover, we’ll have a selection of almost all of the variant covers for X-Men #1 (but some will be in more limited quantities). Here’s what will be available: • X-MEN #1 ARTGERM VAR DX • X-MEN #1 BAGLEY EVERY MUTANT EVER VAR DX • X-MEN #1 BROOKS PARTY SKETCH DX • X-MEN #1 BROOKS PARTY VAR DX • X-MEN #1 CHECCHETTO YOUNG GUNS VAR DX • X-MEN #1 DAUTERMAN VAR DX • X-MEN #1 MULLER DESIGN VAR DX • X-MEN #1 PORTACIO VAR DX • X-MEN #1 YU…

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Free

Midnight Release Party!

Comic Cave PDX 1924 N Kilpatrick St, Portland, OR, United States

Save the date for a Tuesday midnight (early) release party for the new X-men title and all the rest of that week's releases! We'll open before midnight but comic sales can't occur until then. More details to come as we get closer :). These are usually fun.

Free

IPRC Print Spree: 2nd Annual Print Show & Sale

Tillamook Station 665 N. Tillamook St., Portland, OR, United States

The IPRC is hosting our 2nd annual print show & sale at Tillamook Station (665 N. Tillamook Street). The IPRC Print Spree features 20 artists' risograph and screen prints, curated by Kate Bingaman-Burt, Niko Courtelis, Fruit Salad Club (Jillian Barthold & Libby Landauer), Last Heavy, and us! Each print has a limited run of 25, and you can grab yours for $30. Proceeds support the artists, curators, and the IPRC community print shop. Join us for an artist/curator panel and preview of the prints at 6:30pm (for $10, which also includes 2 drink tokens). The show opens at 7:30pm for free entry - hope to see you there! Pre-sale panel tickets available at the https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4382580. Poster design by John Akira Harrold

Free

Halloween ComicFest

Books with Pictures 1401 SE Division Street, Portland, OR, United States

Books With Pictures celebrates the spooky season by doing their part to participate in Halloween ComicFest, a mini comics-fest full of free comics, costumes (of course), facepainting, and more!

Free
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