Thanks to the Willamette Week for recognizing Floating World as a Best of Portland Pick this year! So weren’t voted best comic shop in town, but that’s ok, it’s only our first year right?

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Best “Safe House” For Creative Types

The one place in Old Town to see some eyes bulge without having to call the cops is Floating World Comics (20 NW 5th Ave., Suite 101, 241-0227, floatingworldcomics.com). At this small shop lurking just at the fringe of the “zone,” find everything from Dirty Found to epilepsy-inducing Paper Rad animation screenings to standard-issue DC and Marvel comic-geek fodder—and possibly some twisted combination of all of it. Founder and owner Jason Leivian sums it up: “[It] looks like a comic store, but I like to think of [Floating World] as a front for subversive acts of love and creativity .”