Generations of figure skaters grew up on the mall’s ice, the only public rink within city limits. Now they’re looking for what’s next.
Lacking a Municipal Ice Rink, Portland Found One at Lloyd Center
Rachel Saslow
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Floating World Comics
@floatingworld.bsky.social
Novel Length Thrillers 1223 Lloyd Center, Portland OR
Aug. 2 – APE book release and signing with Rich Tommaso @richtommaso.bsky.social today from 4-6pm! We’ll have his newest comic APE as well as collections of his Black Phoenix series. Don’t miss this final event at our Lloyd Center location before the big move to Pioneer Place.
GenZ Deadline is approaching. Got so many great submissions already, will be super hard to choose, but it's gonna be a slay issue! komikss.lv/open-call/
Business owners are hopeful that the best of Lloyd might be replicated at Pioneer Place — though it may take some time. Read more: www.oregonlive.com/retail/2026/...
Those planning to relocate this August include a comic book shop, lego store, magic theater and one of the mall’s annual holiday markets. https://mrf.lu/256Wc
PDX - the Lloyd Center Mall is closing soon. On Sunday, August 2, come play some fun, silly in-person games with me and @thnewlands.bsky.social to say farewell! 💖🛝🛍️ RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mall-rats-...
Mall Rats Play Day @ Lloyd Center Mall
Come play simple silly group in-person games inside a mall that's about to close.
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📚Lots of cool new manga this week, including books from @mangamavericks.bsky.social , @futekiya.bsky.social , Animate International, and @floatingworld.bsky.social 👀
my older sister and her sweet dog Starry were viciously attacked by a neighbor’s dog that got under the fence in their yard. my sister is a single mom who also takes care of our elderly mother with dementia. they need some financial help. gofund.me/e5dffb87f
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BOAT LIFE Vol. 2 by Tsuge Tadao - Available Now Boat Life returns with novelist Tsuda Kenta continuing to meander between home life, the family jeans shop, and days of solitude on the river. Translated by Iyasu Adair Nagata, edited by Ryan Holmberg floatingworldcomics.com/archives/26683
Today’s the day!! Laser Quest, my new comic from @floatingworld.bsky.social , is available on store shelves now!! Wherever good comics are sold
VENGEANCE IS FOR THE LIVING TP by Keenan Marshall Keller & Alex Delaney, in stores October 2026 Her children savagely murdered. Her husband missing and assumed dead. Hand mangled. Throat slit. Voice gone. Left for dead… Her life, over. floatingworldcomics.com/archives/26713
HANNA AND THE HELLS VS QUENTIN TARANTINO by Sam Ashurst & Tony M Clarke When Quentin Tarantino sets out to make his 10th and final film, there’s only one tune good enough to end his epic: Hanna and the Hells’ ‘New York Ripper’. Only trouble is, Hanna and her pals don’t want to hand over the rights.
Liquid Persona by Momo Gordon, coming November 2026. A life in three parts. In haunting panels, this collection of journal comics bleeds through to the present. Slowly, the liquid persona reveals itself. Limited to 1000 copies, each book is a unique handmade object, with text pages cut by hand.
Random photo from the Arthur Magazine email archives. Portland, Ore., 2013. Photographer and identity of stylish longhair dude unknown. Via latter day Arthur publisher @floatingworld.bsky.social
Portland tonight! I’ll be at @hollywoodtheatre.org with Ian Sundahl and a table of our comix for sale, this limited screen printed poster for the event, my new comic SCUM WIZARD, plus some @dominocomics.bsky.social selections & more! Come cool off inside the great 100 year old Hollywood Theatre!
My new comic Laser Quest from @floatingworld.bsky.social is now available to order from my site (l1nk in bi0) ships out July 29th!!
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AMERICAN NATURE PRESENTS #4
American Nature Presents is the Maximum Rock and Roll of Indie comics! Our 56-page issue features comics by Sam Grinberg and Mahdi Khene. Interviews with Jaimie Hernandez, Katie Skelly, underground le...
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Nerds [complimentary] at Lloyd’s Center giving each other the “I know you’re going to/from @floatingworld.bsky.social” smile and nod 😊
Katie Skelly and Jaime Hernandez book signing today from 4-6pm!
Floating World Comics@floatingworld.bsky.social · last mo.We’re celebrating Floating World Comics’ 20-year anniversary with a very special event and send off to our Lloyd Center location. Sunday July 12, join Katie Skelly and Jaime Hernandez for a book launch party and signing for Heaven + Locas. floatingworldcomics.com/archives/26662
PORTLAND: this Sunday go visit Floating World Comics in Lloyd Center @floatingworld.bsky.social and meet Katie Skelly and Jaime Hernandez! Katie’s work is a delight and Jaime may well be the greatest cartoonist of his generation. Don’t miss this! #pdxcomics
Floating World Comics@floatingworld.bsky.social · last mo.We’re celebrating Floating World Comics’ 20-year anniversary with a very special event and send off to our Lloyd Center location. Sunday July 12, join Katie Skelly and Jaime Hernandez for a book launch party and signing for Heaven + Locas. floatingworldcomics.com/archives/26662
We're moving to Pioneer Place Mall! "This July marks the 20 year anniversary of Floating World Comics, and also 4 years at Lloyd Center Mall, which is closing next month..." floatingworldcomics.com/archives/26694
i think i posted this here on Miyazaki’s birthday but maybe not with the pencil sketch. LAPUTA CASTLE IN THE SKY commission done maybe around 2011? ink and watercolor on paper. i think it was 11”x17”, possibly 18”x24”?
New comic book day goodness picked up from @floatingworld.bsky.social that’s Realicide by Mikey Reger, @tedmaycomics.bsky.social new one, a @richtommaso.bsky.social gem & Moebius from @darkhorse.com
Hey Hey—Being laid off sucks, so I'm starting to list some of my collection for sale on ebay, I'm starting with some rare-ish manga TPBs. I'd greatly appreciate any signal boosting or checking out my wares: www.ebay.com/usr/bincrawlr
Tonite Floating World is bringing the chain-rattling spirit of EC Comics back from the grave with a special screaming of George Romero and Stephen King’s horror anthology, Creepshow! Get to the Hollywood Theatre at 6:30pm to browse the macabre wares, and 7:30pm for the feature presentation!
We’re celebrating Floating World Comics’ 20-year anniversary with a very special event and send off to our Lloyd Center location. Sunday July 12, join Katie Skelly and Jaime Hernandez for a book launch party and signing for Heaven + Locas. floatingworldcomics.com/archives/26662