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PDX Pop Up Con

Comics Adventure 15705 Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard Suite A, Milwaukie

Free Pop Up Con in Portland area to help creators affected by the postponement of Emerald City 2020 March show.

Free

Craig Thomspon & Aimee de Jongh Signing

Cosmic Monkey Comics 5335 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland

Craig Thompson and Aimee de Jongh will be in Cosmic Monkey Comics to promote their new books: Ginseng Roots and Taxi: Stories From The Back Seat. Ginseng Roots - From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson (the author of Blankets) and his little brother Phil, toiled in Wisconsin farms. Weeding and harvesting ginseng—an exotic medicinal herb that fetched huge profits in China—funded Craig’s youthful obsession with comic books. Comics in turn, allowed him to escape his rural, working class trappings. Now, for the first time in his career, Thompson is working in serial form, in a bimonthly comic book series. Part memoir, part travelogue, part essay—all comic book—Ginseng Roots explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300 year long trade relationship between China and North America, childhood…

Free

Ethan Claunch & Justin Zimmerman at Cosmic Monkey

Cosmic Monkey Comics 5335 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland

If the CAYRELS RING signing wasn't enough, A Wave Blue World is bringing the ALL WE EVER WANTED / THE 27 RUN II team of Ethan Claunch and Justin Zimmerman together at Cosmic Monkey Comics to boot. Saturday, March 14th from noon to 2pm.

Free

Cayrels Ring Group Signing

Cosmic Monkey Comics 5335 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland

Cosmic Monkey Comics is excited to host the official A Wave Blue World CAYRELS RING launch signing, featuring writer / creator Shannon Lentz and a host of amazing artists, including Dustin Weaver Comic Book Artist, Farel Dalrymple, Grim Wilkins, Brandon Graham and editor Justin Zimmerman. Humanity colonized the distant galaxy, Cayrels Ring, a thousand years ago, but they've only now begun to discover its secrets. After learning that the tech he invented to help further mankind's exploration has caused an unforeseen wave of danger and death, elderly scientist Jamitch Taylee orders a planet-wide evacuation leading to the loss of his daughter. Decades later, he embarks on a desperate search for his long-lost granddaughter, Nella. This personal mission sets in motion a galaxy-spanning adventure, weaving stories…

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