Credit: Panel from the remastered Casanova #1. Art by Gabriel Bá, colors by Cris Peter, letters by Dustin Harbin.

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  • Panel from the remastered Casanova #1. Art by Gabriel Bá, colors by Cris Peter, letters by Dustin Harbin.

Tonight at Floating World Comics (20 NW 5th), hotshot comics writer Matt Fraction is gonna be signing from 5-8 pm. Fraction’s celebrating/promoting the re-release of the first issue of his mind-bending, supercool series Casanova, which if you haven’t read yet, you really, really should. (You should also read Fraction’s Eisner-winning run on The Invincible Iron Man, his Mark Twain/Nikola Tesla team-up adventure The Five Fists of Science, and his clever, fun superhero book The Order, for starters.)

I spoke with Fraction for this week’s paper; a short version of our interview is here, a more-or-less-complete transcript of our whole rambling conversation is here. Read up, then head over to Floating World this evening.

With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com.