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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Come meet Danielle Corsetto and get your sweet, signed copy of her new hardcover collection of Girls With Slingshots. Exciting bonus - friends Erika Moen & Lucy Bellwood will be joining Danielle to sign their books as well! Plus, show Danielle a purchase receipt from that night and she'll give you a unique print only available at her signings.
The FIRST EVENT in our NEW SPACE is heckin DYLAN MECONIS, folks! Which is to say, we are the LUCKIEST. You know her work from Bite Me!, Family Man, Outfoxed, and The Long Con. Now: a big fat book of graphic historical fiction with a whole bunch of nuns. YES. (Official, far more informative marketing copy follows). Cult graphic novelist Dylan Meconis offers a rich reimagining of history in this beautifully detailed hybrid novel loosely based on the exile of Queen Elizabeth I by her sister, Queen Mary. When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the nuns of the convent spend their days peacefully praying, sewing, and gardening. But…
We are excited to host a reading and book signing with Conor Stechschulte on Friday, June 28. Conor is a visiting special guest at Portland Indie Con that weekend. Stechschulte’s latest comic, Monks Mound is a meditation on time, family and the lifespan of empires. It consists of two stories running parallel, both accompanied and interrupted by the pervasive sound of the wind: a college student returns home on fall break and is confronted with her family’s recurring issues and a park ranger gives a tour of a Mississippian mound site. Themes include: family, craigslist contractors, casinos, the decline of empires, theft, and addiction. WHO: Conor Stechschulte WHAT: Monks Mound book reading and signing WHEN: Friday June 28, 6-8pm WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW…
A locally-produced celebration of self-published/small press comics and games. No TV or movie stars. No exhibitors hawking unlicensed prints or stickers. Only genuine indie creators and their fans. See the official website for a complete list of programming, exhibitors, and creators. Interviews, workshops, and gaming events are part of this con! Creators: Farel Dalrymple, Craig Thompson, Steve Lieber, Matthew Nielsen, Leila del Duca, C. Michael Hall, Joseph Keatinge, Sloane Leong, Renee Nault, Warren Montgomery, Ron Randall, Yuki Saeki, Alejandra Gutierrez, Conor Stechschulte, Jonathan Case, Cathy Camper, Colleen Coover, Leia Weathington, Dustin Weaver, Little Corvus, Geek in the City, Daria Tessler, Corey Lewis, Molly Mendoza, Erin Nations, Zack Soto, Daniel Spitzer, Josh Simmons, Joamette Gil, Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, Sage Howard, Leslie Hung, Sandra Lanz, Dirk Wood, David…
Join us in celebrating the release of Daniel Martin Diaz's latest Mind Game of Divination entitled Metaphysik with accompanying book by Portland writer, artist, and poet Coleman Stevenson. Copies of the game and DMD's nearly sold out artbook Soul Machine will be available for purchase + signing. The Metaphysik deck by artist Daniel Martin Diaz is a tool for problem solving that helps users engage more deeply with their intuitive and imaginative selves. The cards can be used in a variety of ways, individually or pieced together like a puzzle, to explore different modes of thinking and overcome creative blocks. Metaphysik’s evocative imagery is an invitation to a strange new world where experiences of the mystical in the midst of everyday life inspire users to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…