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Rose City Book & Paper Fair

DoubleTree Hotel 1000 NE Multonomah St, Portland, OR, United States

Announcing the in-person return of the annual Rose City Book & Paper Fair! June 17-18, 2022 1000 NE Multnomah Portland, Oregon Friday 2-8 pm & Saturday 10 am-5 pm Admission $5 Booksellers from the Pacific Northwest and beyond will be bringing their best rare and collectible books, ephemera, maps, prints, photographs and more. Click here for a list of our exhibitors. Mark your calendar and stay tuned for updates. Tickets on sale now at Eventbrite!

$5

Rose City Book & Paper Fair

DoubleTree Hotel 1000 NE Multonomah St, Portland, OR, United States

Announcing the in-person return of the annual Rose City Book & Paper Fair! June 17-18, 2022 1000 NE Multnomah Portland, Oregon Friday 2-8 pm & Saturday 10 am-5 pm Admission $5 Booksellers from the Pacific Northwest and beyond will be bringing their best rare and collectible books, ephemera, maps, prints, photographs and more. Click here for a list of our exhibitors. Mark your calendar and stay tuned for updates. Tickets on sale now at Eventbrite!

$5

Jim Woodring in Conversation With Gary Groth

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Jim Woodring has been chronicling the adventures of his cartoon everyman, Frank, for almost 30 years. These stories are a singular rarity in the comics form — both bone-chillingly physical in their depictions of Frank’s travails and profoundly metaphysical at the same time. Not since George Herriman’s Krazy Kat has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure, revelatory aesthetic expression. One Beautiful Spring Day (Fantagraphics) combines three previously published volumes — Congress of the Animals, where Frank embarked upon a life-changing voyage of discovery; Fran, where he learned, then forgot, that things are not always what they seem; and Poochytown, in which Frank demonstrated his dizzying capacity for both nobility and ignominy — along with 100 dazzling new pages conceived and drawn by…

Free

Tillie Walden in Conversation With Terry Blas

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

From the world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead… Clementine lives! In Tillie Walden’s Clementine Book One (Image), Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge a new path all her own. But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement. As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh winter soon reveals that the biggest threat to their survival… might be each other. Walden will be joined in conversation by writer-illustrator Terry Blas, author of Dead…

Free

SIGNING: Casey Gilly, “Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer”

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

Eisner Award-winning creator CASEY GILLY will be signing copies of the new "Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer" trade paperback in the garden, while we screen something ~thematically appropriate~ on the projector! Join us for a relaxing vampire-filled evening to round out your weekend!

Free

Floating World Comics: Soft Opening Party

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

New location! At Lloyd Center! For the past 16 years, I’ve been proud to call Old Town Chinatown home to Floating World Comics. My connection to the art and comics scene in Portland started here. Everything has been connected to this neighborhood: the First Thursday art shows, the Goldsmith Art Blocks, animation fests and book release parties, being a destination spot for locals and travelers alike. It has been a privilege to identify as a Chinese-American business owner with a shop in Chinatown. My wedding was a few blocks away at the Lan Su Chinese Garden and my daughter grew up running around the shop. We’re still here, which after the past two years is something that I’m happy to be able to say. I’m…

Free

Books With Pictures: Sale Week

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

Come through for 10% off everything in the store (20% with your RCCC badge or if you have an account with us), $1 select back issues, and a stacked 50-70% off clearance section!

Free

Rose City Comic Con 2022

Oregon Convention Center 777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Don’t miss out on Portland’s premier pop culture convention event this September! Rose City Comic Con is a fun, family-friendly 3-Day celebration of comics, gaming, sci-fi, cosplay, anime, fantasy, and every fandom in between!

$18 – $750

BLOCK WITH PARTY

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

Join us at the only RCCC afterparty hosted by your favorite award-winning LCS!

Free

Brian Michael Bendis in Conversation With David F. Walker

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

Brian Michael Bendis, co-creator of Miles Morales, Jessica Jones, and Naomi, brings you Phenomena, a brand-new fantasy adventure series starting with The Golden City of Eyes (illustrated by André Lima Araújo) (Abrams ComicArts). Phenomena is the story of a young boy named Bolden and his warrior friend Spike — survivors of a phenomena that took over Earth years ago. Not an apocalypse… something far more interesting. We follow Bolden and Spike as they are forced to team up with another lost orphan of the world, Matilde. The trio of heroes go on a globetrotting adventure that takes them to a magical, mysterious place called the Golden City of Eyes. As they quest across this epically crazy new world looking for answers and purpose, they face…

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