Events

The 5th annual HOT OFF THE PRESS BOOK FAIR features a stellar line-up of international artists including Berlin graphic novelist Ulli Lust, Minneapolis musician and cartoonist Zak Sally (who will perform a set of new music), Atlanta’s Joshua Ray Stephens, Peter Hoey of Coin-Op Books, Kelly Froh and co. of Short Run Micropress, Marc Palm, Max Clotfelter, David Lasky, Megan Kelso, Woody, Jae Bearhat, Rory Frances, D. W., Fogland Studios, Jason T. Miles, Sarah Romano Diehl, Brandon Lehmann, Patrick Moriarity, Reed Olsen, Tom Van Deusen, Simon Hanselmann, and many more. Festivities run from 5:00 to 9:00 PM on Saturday, July...

Enter Yerevan, the capital of Armenia — a city in ruins. Wrecking balls swing wildly and cement trucks race through congested streets. Aspiring architect Frunz and his father, the renowned builder known as Mr. Cement, plan to level Yerevan’s historic landmarks and flood the city with Trumpian high-rises. But this plan outrages the citizens of Yerevan, who rise up in Revolution. Amid the ensuing chaos, only one thing is certain: Frunz must brave the streets swarming with rebels in search of the Golden Mean. Written by Viken Berberian with his signature originality and verve and drawn with audacious compositions, delirious...

Join one of Berlin's most lauded comics artists, Ulli Lust, and Minneapolis artist and musician Zak Sally for a reading and discussion of their recent work. In "Wie ich versuchte, ein guter Mensch zu sein" (How I Tried to Be a Good Person), Ulli Lust takes the readers on the hilarious yet emotionally complex journeys of a young Viennese artist torn between two men. The graphic novel is a powerful memoir that blends personal experiences—stories of sexual obsession, gender conflict, and self-liberation—with broader themes, such as female empowerment, alternative family arrangements, domestic violence, and refugee policies. Lust presents her female...

Ulli Lust, author of the LA Times Book Prize-winning graphic memoir Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, joins us to celebrate the launch of her new book, How I Tried to Be a Good Person. How I Tried to Be a Good Person is a story of sexual obsession, gender conflict, and self-liberation, told with an honesty few cartoonists are capable of. This powerfully vulnerable graphic memoir follows Lust’s life as a young, enthusiastic anarchist making her way in 1990s Vienna. In the hopes of fulfilling all of her romantic needs, Lust enters into a tumultuous love triangle...

Join us at Book Culture LIC on Thursday, August 15th at 6pm as we welcome Kate Lacour for the launch of her new book, Vivisectionary. From "vivisection," the act of dissecting living specimens, and "bestiary," a compendium of real and mythical creatures. Kate Lacour's Vivisectionary is a series of visual sequential experiments in the physiological, the pathological, and the occult. A bizarre and mesmerizing investigation through the marvels of biology and myth to uncover the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in science, the sublime in the grotesque. Part art comic, part surrealist textbook, Vivisectionary is a delightfully grotesque mix...

It’s back, baby! We’re scouring the corners and crevices of our warehouse, airing out the storage shed, and making room on the shelves with our every-other-yearly summer yard sale. **IMPORTANT** This event takes place at our north Seattle office location (Address is 7563 Lake City Way NE, enter on 11th Ave NE) and NOT at our Georgetown retail store. Dig through boxes of $1 and $5 books and stuff $25 you-fill-em bags. Older, foreign, out-of-print, rare, and random—you never know what awaits you at the yard sale! We're firing up the boombox, and filling the bubble machines, so come hang!...

Comix Experience is goofy with joy to bring legendary comics creator Jaime Hernandez in person to sign his new release TONTA on Wednesday, August 21st from 5 to 7:30pm. This public signing will be followed by a private Q&A with Comix Experience's Graphic Novel of the Month Club -- see www.graphicnovelclub.com/start for more information of how to join!  

Celebrate San Diego's vibrant reading community and join thousands of local readers, writers, and word lovers at the 3rd Annual San Diego Festival of Books presented by the San Diego Union-Tribune. Mysterious Galaxy will be supporting programming authors, including hosting signings in our exhibitor booths in both the main area Admission to the Festival of Books is FREE. Panel tickets, supporting literacy in our community, are on sale now. Join us for the Graphic Novels / Comics Memoir Panel with Mary Fleener, Rocco Versaci, Claudia Dominguez, and Fifi Martinez in Manpower Room, August 24th at 1:30 PM. They will also be...

Join us at Crescent City Comics August 24th at 6 PM for a signing of Kate Lacour's newest work Vivisectionary! Kate Lacour's Vivisectionary is a series of visual sequential experiments in the physiological, the pathological, and the occult. A bizarre and mesmerizing investigation through the marvels of biology and myth to uncover the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in science, the sublime in the grotesque. Part art comic, part surrealist textbook, Vivisectionary is a delightfully grotesque mix of the mundane and the macabre. What if lactating snakes gestated inside fetuses? What if factory-farmed pigs were bred as giant, insentient...

Cartoonists Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore will read from and sign their Harvey Award-nominated sci-fi graphic novel, BTTM FDRS Wednesday, September 4th from 7-9 PM! Once a thriving working-class neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, the “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer and her image-obsessed BFF descend upon the hood in search of cheap rent, they discover something far more seductive... and deadly. BTTM FDRS is a parable of gentrification and cultural appropriation that manages to be as hilarious as it is truly horrifying. Fantagraphics.com/bttm-fdrs/