Author Archive
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Feb. 8 – The Land, Sea, and Air Tour: Frank Reade Book Launch Event with Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett
Before Jules Verne’s flying machines and H. G. Wells’s spaceships, there was Frank Reade, globe-trotting inventor and original steampunk hero. Starting in the nineteenth century, Frank Reade magazines were the world’s first science fiction periodicals. Now Frank Reade and his progeny are back in a new book: Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention! [...]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Feb. 9 – Frank Santoro’s Comic Book Layout Workshop
Why do some comics read easier than others? Is it the story, the cartooning or the page design? Frank Santoro will demonstrate how some cartoonists such as Hal Foster and Herge used visual harmonies and structures in their page designs much like classical oil painters. Discover the similarities between visual and musical harmonies and how [...]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Feb. 2 – Original artwork by Emi Lenox & Natalie Nourigat
This February, Floating World is proud to exhibit original artwork by local artists, Emi Lenox and Natalie Nourigat. Each artist will display pages from their two new books, EmiTown Vol. 2 and Between Gears, which will be released later in the month by Image Comics. Emi and Natalie have each created a brand new archival [...]
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012
2011 BESTSELLER LIST
I have noticed an interesting manifestation that’s taken place over the past couple years at Floating World. It appears that the majority of our sales are good quality books that I really like. This was the plan all along, to sell books that are worth reading more than once. It’s a mixed blessing when certain [...]
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
VIOLENCE VALLEY by Jesse McManus
Floating World Comics presents its latest publication – Violence Valley, a 56 page odyssey of animated absurdity by Jesse McManus. A bright, dumb, gap-toothed lad goes rambling out-doors, inevitably finding himself within the deepest bowels of a living, breathing dog. His passage out the other end involves homespun dental work, a transforming pan-flute and the [...]
