Events

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/

Award-winning cartoonists Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore read from and sign their newest book, BTTM FDRS, at LA's favorite comics purveyor, Secret Headquarters Friday, September 6th 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. Gentrification and body horror collide in BTTM FDRS, a brutally hilarious satire from the creators of Upgrade Soul and Your Black Friend. Fantagraphics.com/BTTMFDRS

Come one, come all to Yann Kebbi's free lecture at Parsons School of Design in the Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, Room UL105, University Center on Tuesday, September 10th from 7-9 PM! Yann Kebbi on what's a good drawing? Why finalize? To make a drawing look nicer? What’s a good drawing in regard to telling a story? In a completely un-objective approach, Kebbi will discuss and look at a few examples of what can be considered skilled and unskilled drawing. Presented by The School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design

Discover French artist and illustrator Yann Kebbi and his graphic novel The Structure is Rotten, Comrade Wednesday, September 11th from 7-8 PM! A young man’s arrogance and ambition collide with revolutionary politics in a visually groundbreaking graphic novel. This event is free and open for all to attend!

On Thursday, September 12th from 4-5 PM, join us for a conversation with comic artist Jaime Hernandez, co-creator of the alternative comic Love and Rockets. Hernandez was the winner of the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best graphic novel/comic and the 2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Writer/Artist. He will be interviewed by Gary Groth, founder and president of Fantagraphics, about his work and creative process, representing Latinx experiences in comic art, and changes in the field over the course of his career. This is the SPX Lecture at the Library of Congress, held annually in conjunction...

The annual SPX comics and graphic arts festival presents the best and brightest established creators in independent comics. In addition to the opportunity for public exposure and potential revenue the festival provides to attending artists, the event also allows less established to network with publishers and prominent creators, providing unique opportunities for the comic artist/writer that is just starting out. SPX prides itself on maintaining an open (rather than curated) registration policy and open access between attendees, exhibitors and volunteers. SPX is unique amongst the various comic book exhibitions, as it does not allow retailers to have a formal presence...