Floating World Comics

Floating World Comics is the record store of comics stores. By that, I mean that there’s a different type of vibe here. We’re a bookstore that just happens to carry the coolest books of all – comics. But also art books, international art magazines, graphic design, illustration, animation, music and movie related items, anything that might serve as inspiration for creative folks looking for something new. We’re also a gallery with First Thursday art openings and we’ve just branched out into publishing. I’ve started publishing a quarterly art comics newspaper and just released my first comic, a reprint of Jeff Lint’s hyper-sane 70′s action book, THE CATERER. Dream projects. We’re a store for readers. This may sound strange coming from a retailer, but when people ask what’s a good comic to buy? My advice is, buy one that you’re going to read more than once. There’s enough good comics out there that you don’t need to waste your money on crappy ones. What am I saying? Of course crappy comics are fun too. But we do focus on the reading experience, rather than, say, collecting every issue that comes out. So we organize the shelves by writer, by publisher, by genre. So if you know you like this, you can go down the shelf and find something new you might like too. There’s good comics, and then there’s the real gems. Ones that you want on your bookshelf at home, that will continue to entertain and enlighten for years to come.