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Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust! Join writer Sam Ashurst on March 8, to celebrate the release of Hanna and The Hells Vs The Beatles

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When all-woman punk band Hanna and The Hells set out to perform the perfect gig, Satan himself couldn’t stand in their way – even if the Hells ambitions include heisting a gently weeping guitar from… The Beatles! It’s anarchy in the UK as Hanna, Razor, Trash, and Fetish come together to twist and shout the Fab Four into submission – with John, Paul, George and Ringo needing more than love to make it out alive! God save ’em!

Hanna and The Hells Vs The Beatles is from writer Sam Ashurst and art by Tony M Clarke. It comes to comic shelves February 11 from Floating World Comics and this March, you can celebrate its release with a book signing.

WHO: Sam Ashurst
WHAT: Hanna and The Hells Vs. The Beatles release party and book signing
WHEN: Sunday March 8, 4-6pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center Portland, OR

Writer Sam Ashurst is a cartoonist, screenwriter and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon.
Artist Tony M Clarke is a 70s punk rocker turned 80s psychotronic bootlegger based in London, England.

Hanna and The Hells Vs The Beatles Release Party

Floating World Comics announces a Vanishing Point Release Party this January

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Vanishing Point Release Party

Award-winning writer Mark Russell and some of the comics industry’s most talented artists deliver a universe full of shocking sci-fi horror tales in this new anthology series! Join creators Russell and Ryan Alexander-Tanner on Saturday January 24 to celebrate the release of their terrifying new graphic novel, Vanishing Point.

The brainchild of critically-acclaimed writer Mark Russell, Vanishing Point is an anthology of short stories that are part science fiction and part existential horror. These are stories with a twist in which the twist is not the point of the story, but a beginning point from which to ask what it means to be alive. Russell is joined by artists Ryan Alexander-Tanner, Juan Doe and Alberto Ponticelli on six terrifying tales that will leave readers mystified.

WHO: Mark Russell and Ryan Alexander-Tanner
WHAT: Vanishing Point release party and book signing
WHEN: Saturday, January 24, 5-7pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center

Mark Russell is an author, comic book writer, and cartoonist living and toiling in Portland, Oregon. The works he is known for include God Is Disappointed in You, a modern re-telling of the Bible, The Flintstones, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles (Winner of the 2019 GLAAD Award for Outstanding Comic), Not All Robots (Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Humor Comic), and Superman: Space Age, which tells the story of Superman and his loved ones, living against the backdrop of Cold War America. As far as he knows, all his books are still in print.

Ryan Alexander-Tanner is an illustrator/comics artist and educator, raised in Oakland, California, living in Portland, Oregon. He collaborates with individuals and organizations to adapt specialized content into illustrated narratives that are accessible and appealing to a broad audience. Each image is hand drawn and inked with brush on paper—human stories crafted with a human hand. Clients include The New York Times, Columbia University’s Teacher’s College Press, Buzzfeed, UC San Diego, The Nib, The Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Intel, Planned Parenthood, The Portland Mercury, The Willamette Week and many more.

Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust in Hanna and the Hells vs. The Beatles

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When all-woman punk band Hanna and The Hells set out to perform the perfect gig, Satan himself couldn’t stand in their way – even if the Hells’ ambitions include heisting a gently weeping guitar from… The Beatles! It’s anarchy in the UK as Hanna, Razor, Trash, and Fetish come together to twist and shout the Fab Four into submission – with John, Paul, George and Ringo needing more than love to make it out alive! God save ’em!

Writer Sam Ashurst is a cartoonist, screenwriter and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. Artist Tony M Clarke is a ‘70s punk rocker turned ‘80s psychotronic store owner based in London, England, Hanna and the Hells vs. The Beatles arrives February 11, 2026.

Hanna and the Hells vs. The Beatles

Floating World Comics announces a release party for Brad Hock’s How To Bake a Breadling

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Portland! Come join Brad Hock on October 3 to celebrate the release of How To Bake A Breadling from Hollow Press!

He’ll be shaking hands and signing copies. Who knows, maybe even a breadling will stop by to join us.

The first Hollow Press “COOKBOOK”, this tome is a reprint of a standalone document that was discovered in a sidewalk library box in the small town of REDACTED in early May of 1973.

WHO: Brad Hock
WHAT: How To Bake A Breadling release party and book signing
WHEN: Friday October 3, 5-7pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center

How To Bake A Breadling Release Party

Floating World Comics announces a Vanishing Point book signing with Mark Russell

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Vanishing Point Floating World Comics Signing

Mad Cave Studios proudly announces Vanishing Point, a mind-bending six-issue sci-fi miniseries from Eisner, GLAAD, and Ringo Award-winning writer Mark Russell.

Join the author on Saturday, May 10 for a book signing to celebrate the release of the first issue!

The series features an exceptional roster of artists taking turns with each story, including Juan Doe, Ryan Alexander-Tanner, Alberto Ponticelli, and Jok, plus colors by Sidney Davidson and Ellie Wright, and letters by Carlos M. Mangual, and more. Vanishing Point showcases an anthology of darkly satirical, thought-provoking tales of survival, identity, and the moral dilemmas that define us.

Vanishing Point delivers six stand-alone tales exploring the fragile nature of humanity in the face of an uncaring universe. From an asteroid miner facing an unthinkable moral decision to a world where AI puts consciousness itself on trial, each story is a self-contained yet interconnected journey into the unknown, featuring standalone issues: Screams, The Tomorrow Family, Cell Structure, Deathwatch, Proof of Life, and Grave Remedies.

In Vanishing Point #1 “Screams”, the captain of a mining ship goes on a ten-year solo mission to the Jupiter Asteroid Belt where he makes a horrifying discovery!

WHO: Mark Russell
WHAT: Vanishing Point #1 release party
WHEN: Saturday May 10, 5-7pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center

Astounding Aberrations & Mutations at Floating World Comics on March 30

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FREEKS! release party and signing

Floating World Comics will be hosting a release party for J.R. Williams’ new hardcover art collection, FREEKS!

Astounding Aberrations & Mutations by cartoon master J.R. Williams! A mind-blowin’ eyeball-meltin’ collection of the best of Williams’ twisted fiends & freaks from 2020-2023.

Full color throughout, 256 page hardcover published by Jim Blanchard’s Waterhead Books.

WHO: J.R. Williams
WHAT: FREEKS! release party and signing
WHEN: Sunday March 30, 4-6pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center

J. R. Williams (born 1957) is an American cartoonist, animator, and fine artist best known for his late 1980s/early 1990s work in alternative comics. Known for his manic, exaggerated cartooning style, Williams brought an underground comix edge to his work during this period. Williams’ first professional comics work was in the Last Gasp anthology Weirdo in the mid-1980s and he worked as an animator, designer, and storyboard artist for Will Vinton Studios from 1988 to 2001.

“FREEKS! contains 256 mesmerizing, mutant-filled pages that will make your bookshelf a much more exciting place.” – BOING BOING

Catch Alex Krokus on his Both Coasts Book Tour promoting Loud & Smart & In Color

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Both Coasts Book Tour

Catch Alex Krokus next month promoting and reading from his new comic collection, Loud & Smart & In Color on his Both Coasts Book Tour!

He’s reading alongside some of his favorite working cartoonists today and it’s gonna be a fabulous time. Look at all the great artists!

Come out, bring your friends, buy a book! See you on the road!!!

Meet Alex: an internet-addicted raccoon and his misadventures in the big bad city. Each day reveals a new wonder of modern living, from the highs of creating art to the lows of paying rent, captured forever in a four-panel comic. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll like/share/subscribe.

Loud & Smart & In Color collects more than 80 brand-new, weird, wonderful Loud & Smart comics by Alex Krokus in color for the first time.

WHO: Alex Krokus, Molly Mendoza, Ross Jackson, Lonnie Garcia
WHAT: Loud & Smart & In Color book reading
WHEN: Wednesday March 5, 5pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center, Portland, OR 97232

Robot Tod #1 has beautiful art but the story’s a mystery with some continuity you might need to know

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Robot Tod follows the adventures of the titular hero Tod, who is trying to regain memories and avoid capture by malicious wizards. This first issue introduces his companions: The kindly and shy Sept, her vitriolic and selectively invisible alter ego Ember, the inventive mouse person Furn Fells, and Gwyelder the enigmatic fox guide. This new and lushly watercolored, ongoing series is set in the same post-apocalyptic, psychedelic, magical world of The Wrenchies and It Will All Hurt.

Writer: Farel Dalrymple
Artist: Farel Dalrymple

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Briana Loewinsohn and Thien Pham head to Floating World Comics for a Book Reading and Release Party in February

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Briana Loewinsohn is heading to Portland to celebrate the release of Raised By Ghosts, her brilliant YA graphic novel that’s a love letter to family and all of the messy complexities they come with! She’ll be in conversation with Thien Pham, the artist behind many delightful books, including Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam!

Set in the author’s own teenage years, Raised By Ghosts begins in 1991 with semi autobiographical Briana in middle school. Classes are a bummer, but lunches are worse; either spent alone, or being teased. Traditionally a good student, Briana is not doing well in her academics, but keeps it a secret. Her parents (divorced) are a mess, and largely absent. She spends a lot of time by herself. By high school, she makes friends, and those connections are her only source of happiness as they help each other navigate adolescence. But life at home with each parent remains fraught. When her relationships at school begin to falter, she has no one to turn to, forcing Briana to grapple with her sense of self-worth, her longing for belonging, and her desire for authenticity in her relationships.

WHO: Briana Loewinsohn and Thien Pham
WHAT: Book reading and release party
WHEN: Friday February 7, 5-7pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center

Floating World Comics has announced a Josh Simmons + Patrick Keck book signing!

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Don’t miss Josh Simmons (Jessica Farm) and Patrick Keck (Crusher Loves Bleeder Bleeder Loves Crusher) at Floating World!

Jessica Farm: Like a Lynchian take on Alice in Wonderland, Jessica Farm opens with an exterior of what could be any Midwestern farmhouse. Once inside, we track our titular heroine (she is a person, not a place) as she bounds out of bed on Christmas morning and goes about her routine, eventually breakfasting with her grandparents. The banality of the situation is subverted by a ratcheting sense of dread, as we discover that Jessica’s increasingly nightmarish house — where the inside seems bigger than the outside, like Snoopy’s doghouse — is filled with creatures around every corner: some whimsical, some sexual, some despairing, and some malevolent. Most terrifying of all is Jessica’s father. Will she even get to open the presents under the Christmas tree?

Taking place over a single Christmas Day, Jessica Farm is a career-spanning comics project in which Simmons has been drawing one page every month for the past 24 years, starting in January 2000. This is a horror-fantasy-psychodrama that will appeal to fans of Charles Burns, David Cronenberg, and Dario Argento.

Crusher Loves Bleeder Bleeder Loves Crusher: A boy loves a bug and a bug loves a boy, but can a bug love a boy for more than his blood? The old-timers in Texas’s Erzsébet county say that nature don’t ask permission, it feeds when it needs. But the bloodsucking bug in this here yarn got to thinking that nature ought not be absolute. Would you believe that this guy would rather dry up ‘n die than ruin another picnic by taking his thirsty fangs to the softest baby with the deepest veins? And would you believe, just when he’s ready to die of thirst and turn to dust, a sickly human boy named Thum — a kind-hearted crusher done crushin’ — finds our starving bug — a big-hearted bleeder done bleedin’ — and hatches a plan to invite this feederfly back to where he slumbers?

WHO: Josh Simmons and Patrick Keck
WHAT: Jessica Farm and Crusher Loves Bleeder Bleeder Loves Crusher book signing
WHEN: Friday Dec. 6, 5-7pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center

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