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Manor Black #1 Signing w/ Tyler Crook!

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

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

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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