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Tongues Number Two art show & release party with Anders Nilsen

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

From Floating World Comics's website: This November we are excited to host an art exhibit and book signing with Anders Nilsen to celebrate the release of his new book, Tongues Number Two. The second issue of Tongues draws readers deeper into the enigmatic, interconnected stories of a god imprisoned on a mountainside, an eagle – his apparent jailor, and a young American wandering into trouble in the wilderness with a teddy bear. We also move back in time to watch our young East African protagonist as she experiences violent and peculiar visions of her frightening near future, and meet a handsome, malevolent young swan with dark appetites. Tongues is part adventure and part meditation on humanity’s fraught present moment and its peculiar evolutionary heritage. The…

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The Whistling Factory Release Party and Art Show with Jesse McManus

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

This December First Thursday join Jesse McManus for a release party and art exhibit for his debut graphic novel, The Whistling Factory. Imagine comics created from the hybrid DNA of Chuck Jones and Charles Burns… with a dash of Jim Woodring and you’d end up with something resembling Jesse McManus. His fluid, hyper-kinetic, and lush brush strokes delineate a surreal world of feral children, rubbery animals, and constantly-mutating monsters. The Whistling Factory comes straight from McManus’s id. It is both funny and disturbing, meditative yet frantic, and disjointed while simultaneously displaying a complex and intuitive tapestry of childhood experiences and belief systems. The Whistling Factory is an audacious debut from the sui generis frenetic imagination of Jesse McManus. WHO: Jesse McManus WHAT: The Whistling Factory…

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