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TERRA FLATS #3 release party and art exhibit with Jason Fischer

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

The highly anticipated third issue of Terra Flats has arrived! Get reacquainted with your favorite best friend duo Pony and Vee (and their cat Tigre) in the best and biggest issue yet! Join Portland artist, Jason Fischer, at Floating World this Thursday October 3rd, for a release party and art exhibit to celebrate the release of Terra Flats #3. “Fried Green Demons”: Pony meets another close friend of Vee’s: the stylish, slithery photographer gorgon named Maddison. They do NOT get along… Later, Pony finds work as a handyperson while Vee puts out fires at Iceburg. Will their mysterious, unfriendly neighbor keep their cat Tigre locked in her apartment forever?! WHO: Jason Fischer WHAT: Terra Flats #3 release party and art exhibit WHEN: Thursday Oct. 3rd,…

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24 Hour Comic Book Day @ I Like Comics

I Like Comics 1715 Broadway St, Vancouver, WA, United States

Bring your own supplies and celebrate 24 hour comic book day with us: a challenge event where we will be completing 24 comic pages in 24 hours! It'll be a potluck, so bring some food or snacks to share! We'll have blow up beds for power naps, and rotating sales on things in the store throughout the event. We have over 50 seats available, so bring your friends!

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Over the Garden Wall: Circus Friends signing with Jonathan Case

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

It's not all laughs and peanuts for Wirt, Greg, and Beatrice when they stumble upon a circus in the Unknown. What starts as good fun with Greg reciting Wirt's poetry for the circus' audience quickly becomes a dangerous situation when the Ringmaster sets his eyes on Beatrice to be his next star attraction. Wirt and Greg must work together with past-his-prime Strongman Frederico and down-in-the-dumps clown Paola to infiltrate the circus and rescue Beatrice. Join Eisner Award-winning writer Jonathan Case (Before Tomorrowland) for a launch party for the latest installment of the Over the Garden Wall series! Snacks! Drinks! Sketches!

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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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Woman World Book Club

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

New book club! Alternate Wednesdays! Host Guanani Gomez will coordinate discussion, there will be cookies. Our first selection is Aminder Dhaliwal's Woman World, which will be 10% off between now and book club day!

Free

Chris Ware & Lynda Barry

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Rusty Brown (Pantheon) is a major graphic novel event more than 16 years in the making: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from Chris Ware, the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. Cartoonist Lynda Barry (Cruddy) believes everyone and anyone can be creative. At the core of her new book, Making Comics (Drawn & Quarterly), is her certainty that creativity is vital to processing the world around us.

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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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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.

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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!

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Eeek! It’s Halloween Comicfest at Cosmic Monkey Comics!

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

Halloween is coming up and we're giving away comics and candy. Costumes encouraged. Get them both while they last. https://www.halloweencomicfest.com/catalog

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