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Monks Mound book reading with Conor Stechschulte

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

We are excited to host a reading and book signing with Conor Stechschulte on Friday, June 28. Conor is a visiting special guest at Portland Indie Con that weekend. Stechschulte’s latest comic, Monks Mound is a meditation on time, family and the lifespan of empires. It consists of two stories running parallel, both accompanied and interrupted by the pervasive sound of the wind: a college student returns home on fall break and is confronted with her family’s recurring issues and a park ranger gives a tour of a Mississippian mound site. Themes include: family, craigslist contractors, casinos, the decline of empires, theft, and addiction. WHO: Conor Stechschulte WHAT: Monks Mound book reading and signing WHEN: Friday June 28, 6-8pm WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW…

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TAPPY release party with Nou

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

We are excited to host a book release party and art exhibit with NOU for her new book TAPPY. The book signing will be followed by a live performance by her rap duo YS. In Tappy, rumination on love, loneliness, and loss are spoken in dialogue between characters from children’s cartoons, taken from early Walt Disney and Ralph Bakshi character designs. Addressing existentialism and solitude through the mouths of nostalgic cartoon characters, Portland based artist Nou juxtaposes the ease of existing in a happier time while confronting the inevitable malaise that plagues adult life. 2-color Risograph printed booklet in Red and Yellow. Saddle stitched, 48 pages. Co-published by Cold Cube Press and dd00gg. WHO: Nou, YS WHAT: Tappy book release and art exhibit; YS live performance…

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How I Tried To Be A Good Person book signing with Ulli Lust

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

Ulli Lust, author of the LA Times Book Prize-winning graphic memoir Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, joins us to celebrate the launch of her new book, How I Tried to Be a Good Person. How I Tried to Be a Good Person is a story of sexual obsession, gender conflict, and self-liberation, told with an honesty few cartoonists are capable of. This powerfully vulnerable graphic memoir follows Lust’s life as a young, enthusiastic anarchist making her way in 1990s Vienna. In the hopes of fulfilling all of her romantic needs, Lust enters into a tumultuous love triangle with two men: the “perfect companion” Georg, an actor twenty years her elder, and the “perfect lover” Kimata, a Nigerian man-about-town. As…

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BAD GATEWAY Tour 2019 with Simon Hanselmann

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

Megg & Mogg reach new highs—and lows. Simon Hanselmann’s previous three Megg & Mogg books—2014’s Megahex, 2016’s Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam, and 2017’s One More Year—have all been international best sellers that have cemented Hanselmann as one of the most exciting graphic novelists of his generation. Bad Gateway is the magnum opus that those three books have been building towards, as Megg and Mogg’s fraught relationship careens into psychological depths that Hanselmann has previously only hinted at. Perpetually drunk and high, lovable degenerates Megg and Mogg have drifted through a life full of raucous antics and free of consequences. But their heavy drug use, once a gateway to adventure, has begun to take a grim psychological toll. As her unstable lifestyle finally catches up to her, Megg must turn to her past to uncover the…

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SKIP release party with Molly Mendoza

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

In this epic tale of friendship, compassion and growth, Molly Mendoza’s stunning art and gripping storytelling immerses you in alternate worlds filled with mystical creatures and dazzling landscapes. When Bloom is thrown from their world, and Gloopy is exiled from their own, the two youngsters find in each other a much-needed kindred spirit. But as they skip through dimensions and encounter weeping giants, alligator islands and topsy-turvy 2D worlds, they find that their greatest challenge will be facing their own fears back home. We are excited to host a release party for Skip on August 14 at Floating World. To celebrate this event Molly is also producing an exclusive zine that will only be available at this event! WHO: Molly Mendoza WHAT: Skip release party…

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PROCYON II book release with Karissa Sakumoto

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

Join Karissa Sakumoto on Thursday Sept. 5 to celebrate the release of her new book, PROCYON II, published by Floating World Comics. Oneill Island / 3 Type Colony / Alpha Quadrant ::: Set on a distant space colony, Procyon II follows a nameless protagonist through the city labyrinth in what is either an escape from a simulation, the recollection of a dream, or a betrayal of the self. WHO: Karissa Sakumoto WHAT: PROCYON II book release and art exhibit WHEN: Thursday Sept. 5, 6-8pm WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

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GRUMBLE book signing with writer Rafer Roberts

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

When the forces of good and evil are hunting you down, the only logical thing to do is disguise yourself as a dog and go on the run! Eddie is a low-rent hustler who got magically turned into a pug during a con gone wrong. Tala is the part-demon daughter of Eddie’s ex-partner. When Tala finds herself the target of powerful interdimensional forces, she goes to Eddie for help-setting off a chain reaction of chaos and destruction that could threaten the very fabric of existence. Can Eddie and Tala put aside their differences long enough to survive the magical mayhem and madness that they started, or will they kill each other first? Writer Rafer Roberts will be at Floating World Comics on Wednesday Sept. 11, from 5-7pm…

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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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Slamlandia Oct. Cider Riot Slam ft. Shanna & Michael Alden

Cider Riot 807 NE Couch St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our OCTOBER Poetry Open Mic and Slam at our new first Thursday location - Cider Riot! This is a WOWPS qualifying slam! This show will be 21+ - if you are under 21 years old, we have shows in other locations we'd love to have you come out to! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 7:00 PM. Cider Riot 807 NE Couch Street Portland, OR 97232 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. There is a $1-5 suggested donation. We will have an spotlight performance from the wonderful duo, Shanna & Michael Alden! Michael Alden has spent…

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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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