Christophe Blain’s presentation and reading was incredible. He spoke for about 30 minutes about his career, his writing process, and his creative goals. He was very charismatic and funny and his english was actually quite good. Hope you can make it back next year Christophe!

Jason Leivian, Christophe Blain, Stephanie (translator)

Some highlights from memory:

On storytelling - “Good stories are about asking questions. It is not enough to just have a good idea. If you say, ah I have a good idea… this would be a good idea for a story, bad start.”

“Sometimes people like to act smart when writing a story. If you act smart, in fact you are stupid.”

photos here by Linda Witt and Brandon Seifert:
http://picasaweb. google. com/lindawitt1/May2008ChristopheBlainVisit

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FLOATING WORLD COMICS PRESENTS:

CHRISTOPHE BLAIN & T. EDWARD BAK
IN STORE READING AND SLIDE SHOW PRESENTATION

May First Thursday, Christophe Blain visits from France to read from his award winning graphic novel, Isaac the Pirate. This is an amazing opportunity to meet one of France’s most brilliant new comic creators.

T. Edward Bak returns to Portland from his residency at the Savannah College of Art to read from his long awaited comic, Service Industry.

TRIPLE BOOK RELEASE PARTY

Floating World Comics is proud to present its debut publication, Diamond Comics. This newsprint anthology features mind blowing experimental comics and art from around the world.

Brandon Siefert and artist Lukas Ketner deliver the first issue of their cutting edge, medical horror comic, Witch Doctor: First Incision.

Capture Release is a new publisher in Portland that features avant garde gallery artists as well as undiscovered artists on the rise. The first issue of their eponymous magazine features Jason Traeger and Peter Lavigne-Chalek.

WHEN: Thursday, May. 1st, 6-10PM

WHERE: Floating World Comics
20 NW 5th Ave 101
Portland, OR 97209
(503)241-0227

Show runs through May. 31st

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March 1st Thursday at Floating World welcomes back Sean Christensen, founder of the Awesome But True Electric Institute, an art collective that includes artists from Portland and a growing global network of artists from all over the world. For this group show he is joined by two longtime friends and art collaborators, Catherine Peach and Stefan Saito.

For the show “Repeat After Me”, the three friends produced an original series of works that flows like an illustrated game of telephone. One artist starts with an image of any kind, and then they pass it on to the next artist who interprets it with their own personal style and attention to detail. Then the 3rd artist just gets to see the 2nd illustration so their final drawing could be totally different than the original. The artists themselves are keeping the finished illustrations secret until the night of the show so even they don’t know what the results will be. See each artist’s interpretation of themes like space station inspectors, international bicycle races, ‘Weekend At Bernies’ themed dance parties, made up gods, and other electric awesomeness.

(poster by Stefan Saito, Sean Christensen, and Catherine Peach)

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