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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!
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!
In celebration of the release of the second volume of the fan-favorite Oni Press series, The Long Con, creators Dylan Meconis and Ben Coleman come to Books With Pictures for an exclusive evening of signing and storytelling! Attendees will have the chance to purchase the complete Long Con saga for a special discounted price for one night only! Come celebrate the end of the 2019 convention season with us, and pick up the post-apocalyptic comic book inspired by the good, the bad, and the bizarre of con life!
November follows the lives of three women intersecting in a dark criminal underground. As fire and violence tears through their city on a single day and night, they discover their lives are bound together by a mysterious man that seems to be the cause of it all. One night. One city. Three women. NOVEMBER. Join us for a launch party and signing event for November Vol. 1: The Girl on the Roof with hometown hero Matt Fraction.
X-Party! X-Music! X-Cake! X-Costumes! X-Travaganza! We’re feeling unprecedented levels of X-citement lately here at Books with Pictures, so we’re throwing an evening of X-treme frivoloty. Break out your Jubilee crossplay and come celebrate with us! In time for the release of the House of X/Powers of X hardcover, Eisner-winning critic Douglas Wolk will present a Quicksilver-speed history of all of the X-Men-related series and miniseries Marvel has published since 1963, and sing a song that names 150 of them. And we'll have sets of the best ones for sale!
Tea! Comics! Friends! “Not quite a year ago, cartoonist Eleanor Davis set out on a giant road-trip via bicycle from her childhood home in Arizona to her current home in Athens, Georgia. As cartoonists do, she documented her journey along the way, posting pages to Instagram that chronicled her individual, up-close experience of flyover country." ― Hillary Brown, Paste “You & a Bike & a Road is a lovely, slow book about going a journey―not an epic, world-dominating circumnavigation, but something quieter and more intimate.“ ― Jon Day, The New York Review of Books “Davis gives us an insight into a wonderful experience of traveling part of the United States in a way that few of us are ever going to.” ― Scott Cederlund, Panel…
Listen to Benson High School students read the original creative pieces they wrote in the WITS residencies that took place in their classrooms. Free and open to all.
Molly Mendoza is an illustrator currently living in Portland, Oregon. She is captivated by the relationships that she has built with friends, family, and foes alike over the course of her life. Molly sets out to emulate those relationships through her chaotic yet rhythmic style to make some dang-good drawings. A colorful, unpredictable postapocalyptic world comes alive in Skip, when two unlikely friends, Bloom and Gloopy, find themselves tossed from dimension to dimension. Gloopy is running toward adventure, and away from their home and friends who don't understand their creative talent. Bloom is desperately trying to return home to their lake, and avoid the terrible violence of the city. Instead, both Bloom and Gloopy find what they need in each other, and bravely return home…
THE SERIES? It’s back. • JON AND SUZE? Also back. • THE BANK? MUST BE TAKEN DOWN. • THIS ARC? THE LAST. Gasp! • BULLET LISTS? How do you turn them off in Microsoft Word WE ARE CELEBRATING THIS BRIMPTACULAR EVENT by inviting beloved, somewhat harried, weirdo writer Matt Fraction to hang out with us, drink coffee, sign books, and maybe make some crafts or something. Crafts sound fun, right? Probably with glitter? Sex Criminals is among the comics series that I genuinely think everyone should read, and I am simultaneously thrilled at its return and devastated that it is ending. Nothing to do with those kinds of feels but party, right? Join us! The highly anticipated return of the #1 New York Times bestselling…
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original Hank and Molly coexist in the same world as their clones? In Upgrade Soul, McDuffie Award–winning creator Ezra Claytan Daniels asks probing questions about what shapes our identity—Is it the capability of our minds or the physicality of our bodies? Is a newer, better version of yourself still you? Join us for our twice-monthly book club, with tea, treats, and friends. This week, we read Upgrade Soul!!