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Local Comic Shop Day at Cosmic Monkey Comics

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

Local Comic Shop Day is the day celebrating the independent spirit of local comic book specialty shops, returns for its fifth annual event Saturday, November 23, 2019. Here is a list of what will be available this year. LCSD 2019 THE WALKING DEAD: THE ALIEN LCSD 2019 ABSOLUTE CARNAGE #5 (OF 5) VIRGIN VARIANT – 600 copies LCSD 2019 ABSOLUTE CARNAGE #5 (OF 5) LCSD ARTIST VARIANT LCSD 2019 DCEASED HC – JOKER COVER – 1400 copies LCSD 2019 DOCTOR WHO 13TH HOLIDAY SPECIAL #1 LCSD 2019 DOCTOR WHO 13TH HOLIDAY SPECIAL #2 LCSD 2019 HAZEL & CHA CHA SAVE CHRISTMAS (UMBRELLA ACADEMY) LCSD 2019 OVER THE ROPES #1 (OF 5) LCSD 2019 INVADER ZIM TREASURY EDITION LCSD 2019 KILLADELPHIA #1 LCSD 2019 LEGION OF…

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Holiday Gift Idea Signing at Cosmic Monkey

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

Holiday Gift Idea Signing at Cosmic Monkey Comics Saturday December 14th Noon-2pm Mike Lawrence – Star Scouts Farel Dalrymple – The Often Wrong Mark Russell – Wonder Twins Jesse Simpson - Noise Rover 2-4pm Chibi Comics – Mike & Celina's art & comics! Justin Rueff – Brother Crow Aaron Humphres – Rosco: Alien Wildlife Photographer Cosmic Monkey Comics 5335 NE Sandy Blvd PDX 97213

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Brian Joines – Writer of BACKTRACK In Store!

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

If you had a chance to fix a mistake from your past, would you take it? Alyson Levy would. Guilt weighs heavy on former criminal “wheelman”, Alyson, who led an illicit life that left her shattered into pieces that would never fit together the right way again. That’s when she started hearing about it…a massive cross-country car race that grants the winner a chance to correct a single mistake in their life. But there’s a catch — each leg covers a different period in time. In addition to keeping the cars on the often-questianable (sometimes nonexistent) roads and staying ahead of competition, the drivers will have to contend with the world outside: medieval warriors, dinosaurs, natural disasters, even the far-flung future… it’s all a possibility.…

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Jim Di Bartolo: The Boy Who Became A Dragon – A Biography of Bruce Lee Signing!

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

Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940 - in both the hour and the year of the dragon. Almost immediately, he was plunged into conflict: as a child in Hong Kong as it was invaded and occupied by the Japanese; as the object of discrimination and bullying; and as a teenager grappling against the influence of gangs. As the world knows, Lee found his salvation and calling through kung fu - first as a student, then as a teacher, and finally as a global star. The Boy Who Became a Dragontells his story in brilliant comic form.

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Justin Richards Finger Guns #1 Signing!

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

Justin Richards will be signing copies of his new comic Finger Guns at Cosmic Monkey Comics Sat March 7th noon-2pm. Two troubled teenagers discover they can manipulate emotions by firing finger guns. There will be laughs. There will be tears. There will be uncomfortable teen feelings and angst. Oh yeah... and chaos. So much chaos.

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Craig Thomspon & Aimee de Jongh Signing

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

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…

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Ethan Claunch & Justin Zimmerman at Cosmic Monkey

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

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.

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Cayrels Ring Group Signing

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

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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Local Comic Shop Day at Cosmic Monkey Comics

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

Local Comic Shop day is going to be a little different this year. It's going to be on a Wednesday and titles won't be any limited editions. We'll keep updating the list of books as the day gets closer. Let us know if you want us to get any of these titles for you. BOOM LCSD 2020 MIGHTY MORPHIN #1 FOIL VAR LCSD 2020 POWER RANGERS #1 FOIL VAR LCSD 2020 LUMBERJANES #75 FOIL VAR LCSD 2020 DUNE HOUSE ATREIDES #2 (OF 12) FOIL VAR LCSD 2020 SOMETHING IS KILLING CHILDREN #1 FOIL VAR DARK HORSE SEP200259 LCSD 2020 WITCHER FADING MEMORIES #1 (OF 4) CVR A IMAGE LCSD 2020 ICE CREAM MAN #20 LCSD 2020 INVINCIBLE #1 GOLD FOIL LCSD 2020 MONSTRESS TALK-STORIES #1…

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Vampirella Mindwarp signing with Jeff Parker at Cosmic Monkey Comics

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

Cosmic Monkey Comics is excited to have Jeff Parker signing copies of Vampirella Mindwarp #1 with us Wednesday September 14th 4-6pm. VAMPIRELLA MINDWARP #1 (OF 5) (W) Jeff Parker (A) Ben Dewey (CA) Jonathan Case It's a deadly chase across reality in a Vampirella epic unlike any you've seen before. Enter the twisted world of Mindwarp! Meet Baroness Gruzal, an evil sorcerer with an ancient crown that possesses dreadful powers. Gruzal's ambition is to live one thousand years - and she plans to accomplish this by stealing and inhabiting the powerful body of Vampirella! What follows is a mad chase across time and space itself, as seen through the prism of Vampirella's wild history and dark origins! Don't miss this new, brain-melting epic from the…

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