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TAPPY release party with Nou

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

We are excited to host a book release party and art exhibit with NOU for her new book TAPPY. The book signing will be followed by a live performance by her rap duo YS. In Tappy, rumination on love, loneliness, and loss are spoken in dialogue between characters from children’s cartoons, taken from early Walt Disney and Ralph Bakshi character designs. Addressing existentialism and solitude through the mouths of nostalgic cartoon characters, Portland based artist Nou juxtaposes the ease of existing in a happier time while confronting the inevitable malaise that plagues adult life. 2-color Risograph printed booklet in Red and Yellow. Saddle stitched, 48 pages. Co-published by Cold Cube Press and dd00gg. WHO: Nou, YS WHAT: Tappy book release and art exhibit; YS live performance…

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Storytime and Signing with Tonya Lippert

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham, OR, United States

Franny loves her school. She's played, read, studied, and even napped here. Franny has lots of good memories there. But today it's time to leave. As Franny prepares to move to a new school, she takes time to reminisce and cherish her old school. She wants to find a way to honor this special place. How can Franny say goodbye? Includes a Reader's Note by the author with information on how to guide children through periods of transition or change and acknowledge their feelings throughout the experience. Join us on Saturday, July 6 at 1:00 PM as we welcome local author Tonya Lippert with a very special storytime and signing of her book GOODBYE SCHOOL.Books are available for purchase at Books Around the Corner now…

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Jay Wexler, Our Non-Christian Nation

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Join me as I talk about my new book, Our Non-Christian Nation. Free, open to all, and no RSVP required. I will sign books and also draw a picture of your favorite fruit or vegetable saying something idiotic, if you want. Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all. These non-Christians have increasingly been demanding their full participation in public life, bringing their arguments all the way to the Supreme Court. The law is on their side, but that doesn't mean that their attempts are not met with suspicion or outright hostility. In Our Non-Christian Nation, Jay Wexler travels the country to engage the non-Christians who have called on…

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How I Tried To Be A Good Person book signing with Ulli Lust

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

Ulli Lust, author of the LA Times Book Prize-winning graphic memoir Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, joins us to celebrate the launch of her new book, How I Tried to Be a Good Person. How I Tried to Be a Good Person is a story of sexual obsession, gender conflict, and self-liberation, told with an honesty few cartoonists are capable of. This powerfully vulnerable graphic memoir follows Lust’s life as a young, enthusiastic anarchist making her way in 1990s Vienna. In the hopes of fulfilling all of her romantic needs, Lust enters into a tumultuous love triangle with two men: the “perfect companion” Georg, an actor twenty years her elder, and the “perfect lover” Kimata, a Nigerian man-about-town. As…

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Book Talk and Signing: Jim Lommasson – What We Carried

Blue Sky Center for Photographic Arts 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Jim Lommasson will discuss his new book, What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization a collaborative photography and writing storytelling project with Iraqi and Syrian refugees who have fled their homeland because of war. Jim will read participant’s stories, discuss the making of the book, and will sign copies of What We Carried. Jim began working on his What We Carried project in 2010 while completing his Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan traveling show and book about returning solders from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lommasson invites Iraqi and Syrian refugees who have fled to the U.S. to write their own personal stories directly on Lommasson’s photographs of objects that they carried with them on…

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Manor Black #1 Signing w/ Tyler Crook!

Things From Another World (Milwaukie) 10977 SE Main St, Milwaukie, OR, United States

We're excited to announce that Tyler Crook, artist of Harrow County, Witchfinder, B.P.R.D, and many more, will be joining us on July 31st, 2019 at the Milwaukie TFAW to celebrate the launch of Manor Black #1! He'll be here from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. on July 31st, 2019, and we'll have plenty of copies of Manor Black #1 available for purchase! Manor Black #1 is a new gothic horror fantasy tale from Dark Horse! If you loved Harrow County or horror in general, you'll love this! Check out the synopsis: "Roman Black is the moribund patriarch of a family of powerful sorcerers. As his wicked and corrupt children fight over who will take the reins of Manor Black and become representative of the black arts,…

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Maia Kobabe: Gender Queer Reading & Signing

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

Come meet Maia and join us for a short reading, then signing, snacks, and hangouts. It's gonna be great! In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender…

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BAD GATEWAY Tour 2019 with Simon Hanselmann

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

Megg & Mogg reach new highs—and lows. Simon Hanselmann’s previous three Megg & Mogg books—2014’s Megahex, 2016’s Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam, and 2017’s One More Year—have all been international best sellers that have cemented Hanselmann as one of the most exciting graphic novelists of his generation. Bad Gateway is the magnum opus that those three books have been building towards, as Megg and Mogg’s fraught relationship careens into psychological depths that Hanselmann has previously only hinted at. Perpetually drunk and high, lovable degenerates Megg and Mogg have drifted through a life full of raucous antics and free of consequences. But their heavy drug use, once a gateway to adventure, has begun to take a grim psychological toll. As her unstable lifestyle finally catches up to her, Megg must turn to her past to uncover the…

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Dead End Kids & Manor Black Signing Tyler Crook & Frank Gogol

Cosmic Monkey Comics 5335 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Cosmic Monkey is excited to have Writer Frank Gogol (Dead End Kids) & Tyler Crook (Manor Black, Harrow County) signing copies of their new books Saturday August 3rd Noon-3pm. Manor Black - From the creators of Harrow County and The Sixth Gun comes this gothic horror fantasy about a family of sorcerers in crisis. Roman Black is the moribund patriarch of a family of powerful sorcerers. As his wicked and corrupt children fight over who will take the reins of Manor Black and become representative of the black arts, Roman adopts a young mage whom he gifts his powers to with the hope that someone good will take his place against the evil forces out to bring down his family and legacy. Dead End Kids…

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Sparks Release Party!

Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel 8235 Northeast Airport Way, Portland, OR, United States

Join me in celebrating the release of Sparks, my rural magical romance novel, at the Rose and Compass Bar at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel from 8 - 9 on Saturday, August 3rd. I'll be there to sign books and tell stories about horses, monsters, and whatnot. This will be an event taking place at the same time as the #Wilwrite19 event, but you do not have to attend the conference to come lift a glass in celebration of my new novel! Btw, if you can't make it or live closer to Monmouth, Oregon, don't fret. I'm planning other events at bookstores and closer to home soon! Pre-order or order here! https://amzn.to/2xJSH6Z

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