Posted on February 22nd, 2012
Bridge City Comics is proud to announce our Between Gears Release Party on Friday, February 24, 2012 from 6pm - 9pm! This event is free to the public. In attendance to sign autographs will be local author Natalie Nourigat. Copies of the book will be available for sale ($19.99) during the event.
This honest, autobiographical account of a college senior's life will transport you to the land of Jell-O shots, term papers, job interviews, road trips, and sanguine optimism in the face of uncertainty and change. Trade paperback collects the comic in its entirety, with 30 pages of new material!
Come help us celebrate Natalie's impressive accomplishment of not only having her first book published, but having it published by Image Comics, the comics industry's third largest publisher! Beverages will be provided and there may be cookies! No Jell-O shots, though.
About the Author:
Natalie Nourigat was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. She went to college at the University of Oregon and majored in Japanese with a minor in business. She wrote her senior thesis for the Clark Honors College on sequential art and storytelling in comics. Natalie interned at Periscope Studio in 2008 and was delighted to join the studio in 2011. She works alongside some of the best writers and artists in comics. Natalie is studying French and hopes to visit France with her mom in 2013. She enjoys travel, piano music, Ghibli movies, martial arts, and coffee.
Posted on February 8th, 2012
Bridge City Comics is proud to announce our Frank Reade Release Party on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm! This event is free to the public. In attendance to sign autographs will be authors Anina Bennett and Paul Guinan. Copies of the book will be available for sale ($24.95) during the event.
The event will also host special guests PDXYAR, Portland’s own pirate group! Thrill to a mock battle between pirates and author Paul Guinan as Frank Reade Jr.! On display will be Frank Reade Sr. & Jr.’s Centennial, an electric ironclad gunboat!
Before Jules Verne's flying machines and H. G. Wells's spaceships, there was Frank Reade, globe-trotting inventor and original steampunk hero. Now he's back in a new book: Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention!
BONUS: There’s a prize at the grand finale event! The first ten attendees who make it to all three events and get their “Land, Sea, and Air” passports stamped will receive a print of an original Frank Reade engraving signed by both authors, plus custom-stamped Frank Reade chocolate “gold coins” (which will also be available for purchase). Get your passport stamped at Floating World Comics February 8, then Bridge City Comics February and then at the final event at Things From Another World (Hollywood)!
About the Authors:
Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett have been collaborating as storytellers since 1989, on works such as their Eisner Award–nominated science fiction comic book series Heartbreakers and their critically acclaimed book Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel. They live in Portland, Oregon. For more information about Frank Reade, visit www.FrankReade.com
Posted on November 23rd, 2011
We're having a MASSIVE Black Friday sale on Friday, November 25! This is our 4th annual "Four Color Friday Sale" (black friday, bah!) and if last year was any indication, it's going to be CRAZY.
Anyway, our beloved and precious subscription box customers will get a whopping 40% OFF everything in the store ALL DAY LONG!* That's a little "thank you" for helping us get this far and to let you know how much we appreciate you!
For non-box customers, it's going to break down like this:
10am - 11am: 40% off everything
11am - 12pm: 35% off everything
12pm - 1pm: 30% off everything
1pm - 2pm: 25% off everything
2pm - 3pm: 20% off everything
3pm - 4pm: 10% off everything
4pm - 8pm: No discount (except for subscription customers)
That's EVERYTHING from new comics and back issues to trade paperbacks and hard covers to apparel to toys to magazines to our already low-priced used books*. There are a couple of exceptions (see below) but otherwise, if it's FOR sale, it's ON sale. Plus we're going to have extended hours from 10am - 8pm to make your shopping easier!
So come on in and shop for your friends and family, and get something for yourself! Perhaps that omnibus or Absolute Edition you've been eying?
* Not including New This Week Comics or Graphic Novels, items in subscription boxes, supplies, special orders or gift certificates. Store credit and gift certificates may be used but items paid for with that will not get the discount.
Posted on November 9th, 2011
Bridge City Comics is proud to announce our Oil and Water Release Party on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 from 6pm - 9pm! This event is free to the public. In attendance to sign autographs will be author Steve Duin (writer of Oil and Water, columnist for The Oregonian) and artist Shannon Wheeler (artist on Oil and Water, creator of Too Much Coffee Man). Copies of the book will be available for sale ($19.99) during the event.
When ten Oregonians travel to the Gulf Coast in August 2010 to plumb the devastation wrought by the Deepwater Horizon spill, they discover that "Oil and Water" is just the first of the insoluble contradictions. Between the tarred sands of Grand Isle and the fouled waters of the Louisiana bayou, they come to find out that Gulf Coast residents are economically dependent upon the very industry that is wreaking havoc on their environment. In the shadow of the greatest ecological disaster of our time, they are forced to reassess their roles as witness, critic and environmental steward.
In this 144-page graphic novel - written by Steve Duin, a columnist for The Oregonian, and illustrated by Eisner-winning New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler - readers will tour the shark-pocked beach at Grand Isle with the local head of Homeland Security; step aboard the crabbing boat of a 20-year-old Mississippian who works 16-hour days and spends his nights dreaming of M.I.T.; enter the "Hot Zone" where volunteers work desperately to save brown pelicans drenched in British petroleum; and hear shrimpers, Vietnamese and good ol' boys alike, describe what happens to their livelihood when 200 million gallons of oil flood the scene. The readers' perspective on what hope and what mission remains along a ravaged coastline, and one awash in both seafood and oil, will be changed as irrevocably as that of these ten Oregonians.
Posted on October 12th, 2011
Bridge City Comics is proud to announce our Dear Creature Release Party with Jonathan Case on Friday, October 14, 2011 from 6pm Ğ 9pm! This event is free to the public. Jonathan will be in attendance to sign autographs but offering sketches will be at his discretion.
Join us to celebrate the release of TWO great books from local artist Jonathan Case! Jonathan illustrated Dark Horse Comics critically-acclaimed Green River Killer: A True Detective Story (released August 2011) and we're also celebrating the release of the book he wrote and illustrated, Dear Creature from Tor Books!
Bridge City Comics will have copies of Dear Creature ($15.99) and Green River Killer: A True Detective Story ($24.99) on hand for purchase during the event, as well as a special, limited event-only print created by Jonathan Case!
About Dear Creature:
Grue has found Shakespeare's plays in cola bottles and, through them, a new heart. Now he yearns to join the world above. When he finds love in the arms of Giulietta, a woman trapped in her own world, he believes his prayers are answered. But people have gone missing and Giulietta's nephew is the prime suspect. With his past catching up to him, Grue must decide if becoming a new man means ignoring the monster he was. Rising from a brine of drive-in pulp and gentle poetry, Dear Creature is the love story you never imagined!
About Green River Killer:
Throughout the 1980s, the highest priority of Seattle-area police was the apprehension of the Green River Killer, the man responsible for the murders of dozens of women. In 1990, with the body count numbering at least forty-eight, the case was put in the hands of a single detective, Tom Jensen. After twenty years, when the killer was finally captured with the help of DNA technology, Jensen spent 180 days interviewing Gary Leon Ridgway in an effort to learn his most closely held secrets--an epic confrontation with evil that proved as disturbing and surreal as can be imagined. Written by Jensen's own son, acclaimed entertainment writer Jeff Jensen, Green River Killer: A True Detective Story presents the ultimate insider's account of America's most prolific serial killer.