Floating World Comics is proud to offer original artwork by Al Columbia. Every month or so we plan on making a new piece available for sale. This original painting from 2003 features Pim and Francie at the Salmon Falls Sweet Shoppe. Click on the image below to see all the beautiful details - check out the books on the comic rack!

We’re down to the last ten copies of the limited edition ‘TOYLAND’ giclee print. There’s still time to get one before they’re gone. Artwork is shipped priority mail or fedex for international orders.

PIM & FRANCIE - SALMON FALLS SWEET SHOPPE

Size: 14″ x 12″ - mixed media - 2003

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To purchase please email: jason (at) floatingworldcomics (dot) com

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Floating World Comics is proud to offer original artwork by Al Columbia.  Every week or so we plan on making a new piece available for sale.  This piece is an original painting featuring Ruthy & Lucy from Pim & Francie Comics.

We’re down to the last dozen copies of the limited edition ‘TOYLAND’ giclee print.  Be sure to order one before they’re all gone.  Also we want to remind you that Al Columbia will be appearing at Ada Books (717 Westminster St.) in Providence, RI on December 11th from 6-8pm, to sign books and meet readers.  Artwork is shipped priority mail or fedex for international orders.

RUTHY & LUCY’S REVENGE

Sneak peek from the upcoming color comics series: “THE ADVENTURES OF PIM & FRANCIE”
Size: 8″ x 8.25″  -  mixed media on 3 ply crescent board  -  2009

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To purchase please email: jason (at) floatingworldcomics (dot) com

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TOYLAND by Al Columbia

Pim & Francie is already receiving advance praise from folks like Spike Jonze.  Jim Woodring’s drawing group, Friends of the Nib, is calling it “book of the year“. 

Al’s always working on something new and amazing, whether it’s music, filmmaking, comics, or in this case, painting.  Al showed me a photo of this new painting he was working on and I became immersed in the labyrinth of frayed facade and haunting beauty.  We were proud to feature it as the centerpiece of the new issue of Diamond Comics.

To commemorate the release of Al Columbia’s new book, Floating World has teamed with the artist to produce a limited edition series of archival prints of this latest painting, Toyland.  The giclee prints are just $200 each, printed on museum quality paper measuring 18″x24″; the artwork is 15″x20″.  A note about the artwork; the original painting was quite large and had to be scanned in pieces.  The image above is a lo-res version of the file we used to produce the prints, as you can see any seams are virtually unnoticeable.

We only made 25 copies of this incredible image, and each was signed and numbered by the artist at his recent book release party at the Fantagraphics store.  Orders will be filled in numerical order starting with number 3 of 25 (#1 and #2 already sold).  They will be shipped securely in a tube.  Click on the paypal link below to place your order.

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The latest issue of Diamond is here!  Featuring a magical mystery cover by Michael Deforge and weighing in at 32 pages, this is the coolest one yet.  More than ever, I feel this issue represents the friendships and collaborations that Floating World has been graced with the past couple years.

Many of the contributors are artists I’ve worked with in previous art shows, animation fests, or have featured online at Arthur Magazine:

-Throne Boogie presents: DMTV ‘Death Trip’

-Derek Ballard shows us sci-fi porn from the future

-Al Columbia shares an incredible new painting, ‘Toyland’ as a full color centerpiece

-Igor Hofbauer sends urban tales from Zagreb, Croatia

-Tetsunori Tawaraya says hello from Japan

-Matt Lock presents his first ever comic!

Sweetest of all, this issue features 7 artists from Portland:

-Cody Brant & Dunja Jankovic set their guitars and drumsticks aside to collaborate on some collage comics action

-Jason Overby continues his ascension with “Meat Density/Tame Destiny”

-Aidan Koch has relocated to England, but we’re building bridges here

-Tim Goodyear shares his cult VHS reviews, just like watching a movie with the dude himself

-Dame Darcy, welcome to Portland!

-Blaise Larmee resurfaces after another successful plunge into the subconscious

Yesterday I did my impersonation of Paperboy and delivered 800 copies of this fetish object to the city of Portland.  Look for a FREE copy at: Stumptown Coffee, Tube, PNCA, 5th Ave Cinemas, Powells Books, Cup & Saucer, Missing Link, Cinerama, Movie Madness, Videorama (Alberta), Random Order, The Waypost, Clinton St. Video, Green Noise Records, Together Gallery, Breeze Block Gallery, Red & Black Cafe, Mississippi Records, Jackpot Records, and more spots to come!  Not in Portland?  You can order direct from us, or have your local bookstore place an order with Last Gasp Books (lastgasp.com).  Or if you’re going to APE this weekend, stop by any of the following tables to get a copy: Sparkplug, The Bad Apple, Pony Club, Tugboat Press.  Thanks again to Rikki for her help and all our wonderful sponsors.

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“This is a pamphlet-format, comic book type of comic, the kind of thing that’s 32 pages long and wilts when you leave it on the edge of a table. It’s from Floating World Comics, which is not one of the top eight or so publishers with Diamond; as such, you’ll soon be considerably less likely to see anything sharing its attributes on store shelves, barring isolated groundswells of support for particular projects or a particularly adventurous-in-terms-of-ordering shop in your area.”

Read the rest of Joe McCulloch’s CATERER write up here, it’s really good.

I like that Joe noticed how dense the issue is. The book is packed with humor that seems to chip away at your ontology. It’s so potent it almost needs to be mixed with something, like the rest of your day. I thought it would be a good idea to also present it as a serialized webcomic.

It works so well broken up like this, I realize how brilliant the issue is, that it contains all this somehow. You can read it in one intense sitting, but it’s a lot to take in, like a gnostic text. I also recommend the 100 day version. By the time the webcomic is done, that will hopefully coincide with the book showing up in Previews.

It’s ironic, just a few days after I sent my CATERER submission package to Diamond, to see if they would carry it in Previews, they made their announcement about raising sales benchmarks for indy publishers. But good reviews keep coming in. If that leads customers to ask their comic shops about it, and if those retailers then ask Diamond about it… then there’s a good chance Diamond will decide to carry it.

But you don’t have to wait months for that if you don’t want to. Order the book directly from us or ask your local comic shop to order wholesale from Last Gasp.

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