Here is your chance to meet some incredible local artists who have new books from some of the world’s most forward-thinking publishers. Kuš!, Retrofit, Tiny Splendor, Perfectly Acceptable Press, and Gridlords Publications of Portland. Come and meet the creators at Floating World Comics the night before Linework NW and get these books before anyone else!
WHO: Dylan Jones, Sean Christensen, Sophie Franz, Lindsay Anne Watson, Tara Booth
WHAT: Linework Preparty Extravaganza
WHEN: Friday May 20, 5-8pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.
Zachary Bizzarro
Wure Twenty Fifteen
Published by Gridlords
Have you noticed you are dying every day, only to wake up to new experiences that feel like memories? Are your memories pulling at your seams and exposing new bodies you forgot you had? The last time you took out the recycling, did you notice it was the same as last time and the last time but in a different order? R.I.P.
Every day is a universe and artist Zachary Bizzarro AKA Wure has exposed us to a field of universes within his very distinct personal dialect of drawing. Wure works exclusively in an old computer paint program making lines that feel familiar like humanity and also like nothing you have ever really seen.
Dylan Jones
The Longer You Stare The Fatter I’m Guilty
Published by Gridlords
Dylan Jones has led a shoe mouth face floppy dagger dinger across an array of pages with his dextrous limbs’ pinwheel pineal dialogue.
His new book will no doubt leave a zipper-length void in midmouth just as you grew wanting.
Sean Christensen
Q
Published by Gridlords
Q is a look at what Home is and means, along a journey toward feeling a sense of place. Q is the journey towards finding Home within oneself and welcoming others as guests into the you you have made.
Sophie Franz
The Experts
Published by Retrofit
The Experts is a foreboding story of 3 “experts” on an isolated station, investigating the strange water creatures that live in the area, even as the investigators lose touch with their superiors and even what exactly they are doing at the base.
Lindsay Anne Watson
I Don’t Need Eyes
Published by Tiny Splendor
I Don’t Need Eyes is a collection of love letters to moments both real and imagined. Lindsay Anne Watson is not afraid of thunder.
Tara Booth
Unwell
Published by Kuš!
“Tara Booth is a young cartoonist originally from Philadelphia, now living in Portland, Oregon. She offers up this simple, lighthearted slice-of-life pantomime comic, made special by her naïve-style visuals. Her heroine’s day begins with waking up in the bed of a rather unattractive fellow with whom she obviously spent the night. She beats a hasty retreat and proceeds to go about her day: biking home, showering, making art, drinking beer, and hanging out with her dog and having fun. At one point she also encounters an exhibitionist masturbating right in front of her—and being a self-reliant sort, fixes him but good (which recalls the events in Pičukāne’s Three Sisters, actually). Booth’s painterly pages recall those of Anna Vaivare’s Swimming Pool (Kuš! mini #24), but with a vivacious wit and colorful charm all their own.Unwell is a perfectly delightful confection and Booth strikes me as a real up-and-comer.”
—The Comics Journal
Andrice Arp
Further Reading
The Book I Didn’t Have Time to Make for this Show is the best zine Andrice has made to date, according to David Lasky, and also according to herself. Further Reading is a sequel of sorts, but also, don’t freak out, stands on its own. Maybe it will even be better. It’s definitely more dignified. Includes unhelpful creativity tips, real cocktail recipes and up-to-date information on such popular subjects as dogs, cats, the internet, candy and the future.
Daria Tessler
Three Magical Recipes from the Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus
Published by Perfectly Acceptable Press
Dig out your parents’ glassen vessel and catch thyself a rearmouse — Daria Tessler illuminates three recipes from Alchemist-in-Chief Albertus Magnus’s Book of Secrets… One spell-binding four-color Risograph booklet.