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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.

Atomic Empire

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

Floating World hosts a special screening of 2001’s Ghost World

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Ghost World features early performances by Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson, with a memorable supporting turn by Steve Buscemi, in Terry Zwigoff’s absolutely perfect adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ classic graphic tale.

Hosted by Sam Ashurst of the Arrow Video podcast, Floating World will be on site to recommend a bunch of cool comic books, including Eightball, the anthology comic that originally featured Ghost World, Monica, Clowes’ latest masterpiece, and some special Clowes collectors items. And buy a print of Soph Franz‘s awesome show poster!

So grab your green hair dye, pull on your latex cat mask, and brace yourself for one of the coolest comic book movies ever made!

Thursday Nov. 14, 7:30pm
Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97212

Get your tickets here!

Director: Terry Zwigoff
Run time: 111 mins
Format: DCP

(show poster by Soph Franz)

Mitch Lohmeier abd Paterson Hodgson hit the road for a book tour and are coming to Floating World on May 22

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Mitch Lohmeier and Paterson Hodgson are hitting the road for a book tour and are coming to Floating World on Wednesday, May 22!

They’ll have copies of their new book Marine Unit and the new edition of Mitch’s bestselling Michael Mouse. Special guests Jenn Woodall and Stephen Pellnat will also be joining in the fun and reading from their new books.

Mitch Lohmeier is an illustrator and comics creator based out of Toronto Ontario. His cartoonish art style has been described as a cross between Walt Disney and R. Crumb. In 2020 Mitch released a daily comic on Instagram titled Michael Mouse and it quickly went viral. In 2023 he released a self-published version of the comic which debuted at TCAF that same year. Shortly after, he partnered with Floating World Comics to release a new print edition.

Jenn Woodall debuts a new one person anthology called DUMBASS! Collecting some previous short comics and new works, mostly autobio + dealing with burn out and art-related depression.

Stephen Pellnat is a Portland based comic artist. His series, UPSTATE! is the greatest comic series ever set in the forgotten tundra of Upstate New York!

WHO: Mitch Lohmeier, Peterson Hodgson, Jenn Woodall, Stephen Pellnat
WHAT: Marine Unit book release and comics reading
WHEN: Wednesday May 22, 5-7pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center

Legalization Nation is an interesting graphic novel on the haphazard legalization of cannabis

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New York Times-bestseller and Eisner Award-winner Brian Box Brown returns with a collection of his weekly comic strip which focuses on the ins and outs of cannabis legalization. Legalization Nation collects the last 3 years worth of strips and is considered by many in cannabis circles to be the true conscience of the cannabis world.

Story: Brian Box Brown
Art: Brian Box Brown

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.

Atomic Empire

Floating World hosts a release part by Glynnis Fakes’ 1177 B.C. on April 21

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1177 B.C. release party

This April, Floating World Comics is hosting a book signing with Glynnis Fawkes, co-author and illustrator of the new graphic book 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed.

This beautiful, full-color graphic version of Eric Cline’s bestselling 1177 B.C., adapted by award-winning author-illustrator Glynnis Fawkes tells the story of one of history’s greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean to collapse more than three thousand years ago, bringing the Late Bronze Age to an abrupt end? In this vivid and captivating full-color graphic adaptation of the landmark book, Fawkes invites us to follow two young friends living in the aftermath of the cataclysm as they unravel why it happened—and reveal important lessons for today’s interconnected and vulnerable world.

Pel, a member of the marauding Sea Peoples, and Shesha, an Egyptian scribe, visit the kingdoms of the Minoans, Mycenaeans, Hittites, Canaanites, Assyrians, and Egyptians to explore the calamities that brought them down. This graphic history depicts the people, events, art, architecture, and lands that Pel and Shesha encounter. We witness the Sea Peoples’ battles on land and sea, earthquakes on the Greek mainland, droughts and famine in Anatolia, invasions in north Syria, and possible rebellions in Canaan. Along the way, we also learn about the assassination of a Hittite prince traveling to marry an Egyptian queen, the sinking of a merchant ship laden with international goods, and the return of a pair of sandals to Crete by the Babylonian king Hammurabi.

An entertaining adventure story, this dazzling comic is also historically accurate and enlightening, inviting readers of all ages to think about the surprising factors and theories that explain why societies, whether ancient or modern, die or survive when struck by catastrophes.

WHO: Glynnis Fawkes
WHAT: 1777 B.C. book release and signing
WHEN: Sunday April 21, 4-6pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center

Vengeance Is For the Living #1 is a solid tale of revenge

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Shelia Knox awakes from a two week coma to find her life torn apart. Her children have been savagely murdered. Her husband is missing. Her hand completely mangled and her throat slit to within inches of her jugular…Leaving her with nothing left to live for. So, when the men responsible for taking her and her family, come after her to try and finish the job, they unwittingly let loose an Angel of Death, hell-bent on hunting down those responsible and making them all pay.

Story: Keenan Marshall Keller
Art: Alex Delaney
Color: KMK

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.

Zeus Comics

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Night Cruising #1 is interesting but a big trigger/warning label on it

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There are a lot of comics coming out Night Cruising tells the story of Ricky, a rebellious youth, getting up to no good on the dizzying highways of LA county late at night.

Story: Harry Nordlinger
Art: Harry Nordlinger

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.

Floating World Comics

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