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Floating World teams up with Power Comics to launch a New Imprint

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Vendetta: Holy Vindicator

Power Comics has announced a partnership with independent publisher Floating World Comics to curate a new line of reissues featuring its favorite and most important discoveries including Ken Landgraf and Bob Huszar‘s street vigilante epic New York City Outlaws, and a collection of Steve McArdle‘s singular thrash-metal outlaw-verse Red Bullet Comics.

Announcing the debut publication from Floating World / Power Comics…

VENDETTA: HOLY VINDICATOR by Steve McArdle

Just when we thought we’d seen every supreme extreme in the superhero megaverse… we unearthed the decades-old, skin-flayingly singular work of Steve McArdle and his Red Bullet Comics imprint. From the start, McArdle was a maestro of blood and mayhem, an overlooked ’90s creative genius wrapped in black leather and raw ambition.

In his undisputed masterpiece Vendetta: Holy Vindicator, skulls, spikes, motorbikes, chains, more chains, and Satan collide at thrash-metal speed in what may be the most intenselyconfident entry to the self-published comics canon… ever.

Collects Vendetta: Holy Vindicator #1-4 and Artillery #1

Lunar Distribution announces deal with Floating World, Silver Sprocket and Uncivilized

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Lunar Distribution

Lunar Distribution has announced a distribution deal with Floating World Comics, Silver Sprocket, and Uncivilized Books to bring their books to the direct market and other retailers.

The three independent publishers will offer retailers a 50% discount, starting with their December releases as well as October and November titles on FOC.

Lunar Distribution launched in April 2020 signing DC as its initial customer ending the publisher’s exclusive deal with Diamond. Since then, the distributor has added AHOY Comics, Scout Comics, Z2 Comics, and more to its list of publishers who use the platform.

Floating World Comics is an independent publisher of international, avant-garde, and genre comics and graphic novels. Our publications are an exciting extension of our bookstore in Portland, OR, which has been operating at the heart of contemporary comics for over fifteen years. With a focus on a unique, curated selection of the most outstanding comics from around the world, we bring new voices to the forefront. As we have seen time and again, the mainstream often springs from underground.

Silver Sprocket is a radical indie comics publisher, shop, and gallery based in San Francisco specializing in comics that are socially conscious and fun, with numerous Eisner and Ignatz awards under their belts.

Uncivilized Books is a boutique comics publishing house based in Minneapolis, MN. Uncivilized Books champions cartoonists unafraid to grapple with big ideas. Their books are funny, smart, dense, and satisfying. We envision a future full of cartoon philosophers, comic-book poets, graphic novelists, and doodler scientists.

Night Hunters Gets Collected in November

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This November, Alexis Ziritt and Dave Baker‘s Night Hunters gets collected in a trade paperback. The release features all four issues of the sold-out cyberpunk hit!

If you want to live in Gran Caracas you have two options: become a cop or die.

Night Hunters is a pulsing cyberpunk classic that tells the tale of two brothers who have to navigate the futuristic dystopian world of Venezuela, 100 years in the future.

How far would you go for your family? Would you enlist in a corrupt police department and slowly sell your body-parts for cyborg replacements so that your aging father can have a roof over his head? The only answer is pick up your gun and put one foot in front of the other.

This sci-fi epic by indie comics all-stars Alexis Ziritt and Dave Baker combines the political sharpness of Paul Verhoeven and the bleak sense of humor of Judge Dredd. If you’re on the search for the next great genre must-read this combination of Robocop and Blade Runner is definitely what you want.

Hyperthick #2 is Coming in October

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Lost in steam? Head denting like a bag? You’ll have a field day with this shredding medley of flaming errors and murky diatribes.

Become exhausted at your own pace. Wasting time has never been so easy. Oh and those bubbles you’re using for eyes – keep a record. They’ll pop.

From Steve Aylett, Hyperthick #2 is out in comic shops on October 13.

Unsmooth 2: BUM by Everett Glenn arrives this September

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E.S. Glenn explores his existential angst in this extraordinary prequel to his debut graphic novel, Unsmooth.

A form busting allegorical fever dream, Unsmooth 2: BUM is a poetic journey through the human condition, featuring a cast of characters who range from poets to prisoners—from assassins, to artists…

The oversized 88 page issue flows seamlessly between reality and metaphor in 8 visually stunning chapters. This standout work proclaims Glenn’s status as a rising star in comics.

Unsmooth 2: BUM arrives September 8.

Unsmooth 2: BUM

Hyperthick #1 from Steve Aylett is out this July

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Dead inside? Hair on the blink? House tornado liquidizing the furniture? Here’s a fab new rectangle from Steve Aylett.

You’ll have a field day with this shredding medley of smashed treasure and murky diatribes. Become exhausted at your own pace. Wasting time has never been so easy. And keep a watchful eye on those legs of yours. They’ll betray you.

Catch the adventures of Benny the Hen, Luka Bazooka, Su Pesto, Fox Grave, Biloxi Blake and Harry McInch in this daunting first issue.

Hyperthick #1 is out July 14 and can be pre-ordered now.

Hyperthick #1

Vulnerability is My Superpower Gets a Live Virtual Event April 6 with Jackie Davis

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By being her anxious, honest, and just plain silly self, Jackie Davis’ potato-shaped character proves that, even though opening up to others is scary at first, vulnerability can be a superpower.

Vulnerability Is My Superpower features Jackie Davis’s relatable diary comics about self-discovery, mental health, relationships, and childhood. From bouts with anxiety and insecurity to the thrill of simple pleasures like secretly trying other people’s coats on at a party, she’s figuring things out as she goes along, navigating domestic life with her husband, Pat (aka “the Purple Guy”), and sharing her most embarrassing thoughts and habits so you don’t have to.

Like a soft plushie for your brain to hug, this collection is for anyone who struggles with self-confidence or just likes to scrutinize the curious workings of relationships, routine, and why we do the things we do.  

PREORDER Vulnerability Is My Superpower to receive a bookplate signed by Jackie Davis and an invite to the virtual release party on Tuesday, April 6, 6 pm PST.

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden Gets a Virtual Book Launch on March 23

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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

Portland artist Mannie Murphy is celebrating the release of their new graphic memoir/history, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden with a virtual book launch on March 23.

Mannie is joined in conversation by special guest Steve Bissette to discuss the new book. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author’s 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix but morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon’s dark history of white nationalism.

Murphy details the relationship between white supremacist Tom Metzger (former KKK Grand Wizard and founder of the White Aryan Resistance) and the “Rose City” street kids like Ken Death that infiltrated Van Sant’s films — a relationship that culminates in an infamous episode of Geraldo.

Murphy brilliantly weaves 1990s alternative culture, from Kurt Cobain and William Burroughs to Keanu Reeves and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with two centuries of the Pacific Northwest’s shameful history as a hotbed for white nationalism: from the Whitman massacre in 1847 and the Ku Klux Klan’s role in Portland’s city planning in the early 1900s to the brutal treatment of Black people displaced in the 1948 Vanport flood and through the 2014 armed standoff with Cliven Bundy’s cattle ranch.

In Murphy’s personal reflections and heart-racing descriptions of scenes like infamous campfire kiss in My Own Private Idaho, the artist’s story becomes a moral anchor to a deeply amoral regional history and marks the incredible debut of a talented new voice to the graphic medium.

WHO: Mannie Murphy + Steve Bissette in conversation
WHAT: I Never Promised You A Rose Garden virtual book launch
WHEN: Tuesday March 23, 6pm PST
WHERE: Facebook.com/Fantagraphics

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

All Time Comics Returns in May with Shaky Kane

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All Time Comics returns in July with Crime Destroyer: True Til Death, a 48-page one-shot. by Jason T. Miles, Josh Simmons, and Shaky Kane.

Towering above lawbreakers, citizens and all other superheroes, CRIME DESTROYER rights every wrong perpetrated against humanity — past, present and future — dispensing justice with four fists held high and ten fingers on the trigger. With a body composed of wrath, gristle and unfiltered power, and a cunning mind that cuts through the sewage of a world gone wrong, Crime Destroyer is mankind at our most supreme potential… but not above dirtying his hands with the blood of the guilty.

Crime Destroyer: True Til Death is a full color, brutally entertaining detonation of righteous violence in a fractured mirror of today’s fallen society. Written by Jason T. Miles and Josh Simmons, with art by Shaky Kane, it’s the latest n’ greatest chapter in the ongoing saga of the all-time vigilante megaman. It comes to shelves May 5, 2021.

Crime Destroyer: True Til Death
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