Comixlist

This gala re-opening of Guapo Comics & Coffee at their new location—plus graphic novel release party for local cartoonists Jesse Reklaw (The Night of Your Life), Nicole Georges (Invincible Summer volume II), and Theo Ellsworth (Capacity)—will include multimedia comics readings from the above cartoonists plus Julia Gfrörer, John Isaacson, and Sean Christensen. Come see cutting edge comics on the crossroads of the strange yet personal everyday fantastic. Refreshments provided.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS:

Jesse Reklaw turns the dreams of strangers into clever four-panel comic strips in The Night of Your Life. This stunning hardcover collects five years of Reklaw?s comic strip, Slow Wave, which appears in alternative newsweeklies all over the country, including the Portland Mercury. “These delightfully surreal morsels… are as sure-handed and lucidly drawn as the subject matter is crooked and curious,” says the San Francisco Chronicle.

Nicole J. Georges has been publishing her own zines and autobiographical comics for over fourteen years, the most recent of which, Invincible Summer, has been collected into an anthology and released as two volumes (from Tugboat Press and Microcosm Publishing). Ms. Georges has toured the country with Sister Spit, The Next Generation, and was voted “Miss Specs Appeal 2006” by the zine Hey Four Eyes!

Theo Ellsworth?s Capacity is a mind turned inside out. Ellsworth?s careful line gives shape to profound and profoundly silly thoughts alike, bringing a visionary, startling new life to doubts and hopes familiar to everyone. Craig Thompson (author of Blankets) gushes this is “exactly the kind of book you discover in a dream?and long for so badly upon waking. Only this one still exists.”

Julia Gfrörer is a printmaker, bookbinder, and illustrator for the Portland Mercury who self-publishes comic books, including “All the Ancient Kings,” “Venus in Blue Jeans/Venus in Furs,” and “How Life Became Unbearable.”

John Isaacson is a teacher, T-shirt designer, and cartoonist, among many other things. His book DIY Silkscreening was published by Microcosm in 2006.

Sean Christensen, Awesome But True, has been living to get radical since 1981 with a strong focus on being as awesome as possible and remaining true to oneself. His most recent projects are two self-published booklets: “Vortex Comics” and “What are Crass.”