This Saturday May 4th is Free Comic Book Day at Floating World. In addition to all the free comics produced especially for FCBD (limit of 10 books per customer) we will also have copies of MASTER P’S THEATER, a free book that we co-published with Sparkplug, Teenage Dinosaur and Snakebomb. This issue is fantastic, and as is usual in this yearly co-publishing partnership, we have selected all local artists who have never yet appeared in a free comic:

Covers by August Lipp and Tony Remple. Stories by: John Isaacson, Amriel Simpson, Alex Chiu, Ryan Iverson, Pat Keck, Jason “JFish” Fischer.

It’s gonna be a party. From noon – 3pm we’ve invited some special guests to hang out and sign books.

JFish – Master P’s Theater, Junqueland, Burgermancer
Tyler Crook – BPRD, Petrograd
Ales Kot – Wild Children, Change, Suicide Squad
Robbi Rodriguez – Frankie Get Your Gun, Uncanny X-Force

But wait there’s more. We’ll be running our DOLLAR-FOR-DOLLAR sale all day from 11-7. Here’s how it works: for every dollar spent at the register you get a FREE dollar comic from our back issue bins. If you buy a $30 book you get 30 FREE dollar comics. If you buy two dollar comics you get two more for FREE! You’re gonna leave with a bunch of comics.

[2] Comments

THE THIRD TRIANNUAL GREAT PORTLAND HOME VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT SWAPATHON will welcome Portland’s premiere video cassette swap-tacular  back to the warm bosom of Floating World Comics. Inspired by relaxing weekend getaways to Oregon’s wine country with Floating World owner Jason Leivian and brunch server Mayhaw Hoons, the SWAPATON was formed to take their experiences and supply a haven for Portland’s VHS-enthustiast community to swap video tapes, their concerns and… romance?* Guests are heartily encouraged to bring their own VHS to swap or sell. Please e-mail Jason if you are interested in exhibitor table space.

*romance will not be provided

WHO: Tabled exhibitors, VHS lovers
WHAT: VHS swap meet
WHEN: Saturday, April 20th, 3-8PM
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

Bio info:

The Video Home System (better known by its abbreviation VHS) is a consumer-level analog recording videotape-based cassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan (JVC). The VHS cassette is a 187 mm wide, 103 mm deep, 25 mm thick plastic shell held together with five Phillips head screws. The flip-up cover that protects the tape has a built-in latch with a push-in toggle on the right side. The recording media is a 12.7 mm wide magnetic tape wound between two spools, allowing it to be slowly passed over the various playback and recording heads of the video cassette recorder. VHS tapes have approximately 3 MHz of video bandwidth and 400 kHz of chroma bandwidth, which is achieved at a relatively low tape speed by the use of helical scan recording of a frequency modulated luminance (black and white) signal, with a down-converted “color under” chroma (color) signal recorded directly at the baseband. In modern-day digital terminology, NTSC VHS is roughly equivalent to 333×480 pixels luma and 40×480 chroma resolutions.

On December 31, 2008, the final truckload in the USA of recorded programming on VHS tapes rolled out of a warehouse owned by Ryan Kugler, the last major supplier of VHS-recorded videos.

No Comments

Unknown Origins & Untimely Ends: A Collection of Unsolved Mysteries, contains thirty-two true stories of strange disappearances, cold case murders, and unexplained phenomena. These stories come from around the world and range from the familiar, such as the grisly unsolved murder of “The Black Dahlia,” to the forgotten, like the mysterious substance that once fell from Washington skies. Check out Hic & Hoc’s first anthology for these tales and many more creepy, baffling, bona fide mysteries.

WHO: Emi Gennis, Sam Alden, Julia Gfrörer, and Graham Kahler
WHAT: Unknown Origins & Untimely Ends book release & signing
WHEN: Wednesday, April 24, 5-7pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

Bio info:
Portland-based editor Emi Gennis, known for her own macabre historical and true crime comics, has pulled together the work of over thirty talented cartoonists from five countries for this collection. The book includes work by the following artists: Aaron Whitaker, Andy Glass, Bobby Mono, Box Brown, Danielle Chenette, Duncan, Doug Slack, Emy Bitner, Evan A, Graham Kahler, J. T. Yost, Jackie Roche, Jason Bradshaw, Jenn Woodall, Julia Gfrörer, Lizz Lunney, Melinda Tracey Boyce, Mike Roy, Nate McDonough, NickSouček, Nikki DeSautelle, Noah Van Sciver, Owen Heitmann, Phillip Sevy, Simon Moreton, Sabin Calvert, Sam Alden, Sam Spina, Sarah Benkin, Steve Seck, Tod Parkhill, and William Cardini.

[2] Comments

Earth’s legit-est teenage protectors have vanquished evil and are settling into sleep mode… until their new mentor accidentally unleashes a fresh batch of cosmic monsters, forcing them to engage evil once again as Task Force Rad Squad.

Task Force Rad Squad #1 is a 32-page, full-color calamity by writer Caleb Goellner, artist Buster Moody and colorist Ryan Hill that introduces readers to three teens with radditude, their substance-addled “mentor” and the weary AI known as PhRANCIS. Powered by the specious cosmic tech of an extinct Space Wizard civilization, the team has inherited a universe of messes that they rightfully resent having to mop up. But who knows? Maybe their struggle to protect Earth from sentient birthday cakes and hot garbage will wind up teaching them the true meaning of friendship? Maybe??? Seriously, we have no idea!

“Task Force Rad Squad is hilarious, bizarre, and made of 100% butt kicking radditude.”
—Sam Humphries, writer of Our Love Is Real, Sacrifice and Uncanny X-Force

WHO: Caleb Goellner and Ryan Hill
WHAT: Task Force Rad Squad #1 release and signing
WHEN: Wednesday, April 17, 6-8pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

Caleb Goellner is a blogger based in Portland, OR. He’s originally from Kansas City, where he first met Buster Moody, colorist of Bayou and Screamland: Death of the Party. The duo bonded with Portland illustrator Ryan Hill, artist and colorist of the Dark Horse Comics Avatar: The Last Airbender Free Comic Book Day 2013 issue, over a shared love of tokusatsu, manga and LEGO. Task Force Rad Squad is the trio’s first team-up in an ongoing war against space monsters.

http://www.taskforceradsquad.com/

No Comments

Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe—many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy’s original inventions.

A welcome read for anyone who ever felt more passion for a sandwich than is strictly speaking proper, Relish is a graphic novel for our time: it invites the reader to celebrate food as a connection to our bodies and a connection to the earth, rather than an enemy, a compulsion, or a consumer product.

“Lucy Knisley’s delightful drawings don’t just tell great stories, they’re a crystal-clear how-to guide to everything worth doing in the kitchen.  Step aside, Joy of Cooking.”
—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

WHO: Lucy Knisley
WHAT: Relish book release & signing
WHEN: Thursday, April 18, 6-8pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

Lucy Knisley was born in New York City, raised in Rhinebeck, NY, and educated in Chicago. She has come home to roost in a tiny apartment in Manhattan, where she can be closer to her mom’s cooking.  Her comics about life, food, travel and her adventures have gained her a devoted audience on the Internet, and she is now doing food comics for the magazine Saveur, who just sent her to Africa. Lucy’s first book, French Milk, is a travelogue about a trip to Paris. Relish is her most recent work.

No Comments