Will wonders never cease? It's an actual newsletter from TFB! Welcome/Welcome Back to Buoyant News!

CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS! Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

These stores are carrying my new self published comic Young Shadow: Tunnel Vision. When you pick it up from them it includes a free print you can't get anywhere else. Shops listed in the image below

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

FLOATING BOOKSWAP & postcard writing is underway! Bring books & swap ‘em for an equal/lesser number of books on the tables out front, then come inside & write a postcard to your elected officials! We’re here until 6, but will probably break down the tables outside around 5. Love y’all so damn much

In case any poets needed some Dan Beachy-Quick tonight... "When the eye loses the ability to see an object for the fact of its very nearness, then the imagination must alter the lens. A poem may bring us what we see in it just such a way."

In addition to the FLOATING BOOKSWAP from 11-5 tomorrow, will also have a table set up with some templates & these postcards by local artist @cscprojects.bsky.social along w writing utensils & stamps for those who want to take a minute to write to their elected officials.

Tomorrow, Friday, Jan 30, we will be open regular hours, 10-6, & will also be hosting a FLOATING BOOKSWAP from 11-5 on the porch. If you’re participating in the general strike, please know that we support you, but because of the snow, we simply cannot afford to be closed & still make rent & payroll.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

I wonder if I’ll ever stop being angry all of the time.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

ATTN all AWP attendees & Baltimore bruisers: BRUISER MART will be Thursday, March 4. Book fair, readings + panels, and AWP afterparty offsite at The Ottobar. More details below. Vendor applications are open now ↓ www.bruisermag.com/mart_vendcall

If you’re in Dublin, stop by Little Deer Comics and pick up something to read (and tell ‘em we said “hi” from Oklahoma)

In our quest to bring you awesome indie comics from around the world & down the block, we’ve got copies of Spet’s THE MOURNING LIGHT, a visceral story of abuse, trauma, and healing. Spet makes comics in Arkansas & hopefully we’ll get them to stop by soon. be kind. stay weird. read indie comics.

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

A little glimpse of all the awesomeness from the indie comics publisher @gorilasentado.bsky.social of Porto, Portugal. We’re very proud to be the only place you can get these comics (in physical form, at least) in North America. All in English, all amazing. Come get yours!

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Self-publishers! If you're making comics railing against the horrors of the world around us in 2026 you are eligible for free advertising at Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social for your online store. My e-mail address is here for more details: www.brokenfrontier.com/contact-us/

Renée Nicole Good’s prize-winning poem from 2020. May her memory give us strength. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

Show @bookshop.org some love here, folks, so they give the social media platform not owned by billionaires more attention! You can shop with The Floating Bookshop through bookshop dot org here: bookshop.org/shop/thefloa... Or find you local indie bookstore and support them!

We have run this annual feature every year since 2012! Some unmissable work here. Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own! www.brokenfrontier.com/ten-uk-small...

The ebook of Staircase in the Woods, one of our favorite books of 2025, is on sale at @bookshop.org for $1.99! (Get and ebook AND support indie bookstores? HOW COOL IS THAT?) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Hate it when I wake up in a wider gyre than the one I went to sleep in

Just once I'd like to wake up to people freaking out for good reasons

Believe @readfrontier.bsky.social on this. Data centers are NOT required to use their own power plants. Fact Check: Are claims about Oklahoma data centers holding up? share.google/Pj7oKbpcM0AY...

What’s up with the reigning champs not posting anything for over a year?

2026 has been a long year.

The vibe for 2026 courtesy of our resident fiends at @thefloatingbookshop.com!

Met this very careful little cross-eyed kitty on my daily walk here in Portugal. Happy new year / feliz ano novo

What were the book censorship trends in 2025? Here are the highs and lows, as identified by five organizations doing the work. 💙📚 #booksky bookriot.com/book-censors...

Happy 2026, #booksky! Do you like scrappy little indie bookshops? We’re a home for poetry, horror, libros en español, queer books, science writing, ttrpgs, fantasy, scifi, book clubs, zine making, author events & much more in downtown OKC We’re helping build the kind of culture we want in the city

It’s the last day of the year and our STAYING PUT sale! We’re open 10-6 today and all hardbacks are 20% off and pretty much everything else is 10% off. Thank you, dear readers, for an amazing year. We’re looking forward to 2026 on the best little street in OKC. be kind. stay weird. happy new year.

Another point for Ireland.

Do publishers strong-arm authors into promoting the preorder sale from that chain bookstore owned by the hedge fund? Hopefully we see similar energy this year from them for indie bookstore day.

Still have a few SLINGSHOT planners left, but if you want one, HURRY!

We FINALLY got copies of Daggerheart They were supposed to be here before Black Friday, then before Christmas… but at least they made it in time for the STAYING PUT sale! Come get the Daggerheart Core Set while supplies last and experience the ttrpg from Critical Role that everyone is talking about!

2026 is a year to ORGANIZE, and we’ve got a few Slingshot planners left to help do it. While supplies last, you can save 10% on these radical planners. Plus most everything else is 10% off, AND all hardbacks are 20% off through Wednesday, December 31! be kind. stay weird. organize.

"By having creatures with disabled-like features bond with actual disabled humans, I’m letting the metaphor for the thing meet the thing." Don't miss @allisonwyss.bsky.social's conversation with @wiswell.bsky.social on his novel WEARING THE LION. buff.ly/7DwUstz

Rick Steves is among the best of us. If you get a chance, I highly recommend his book “Travel as a Political Act: How to Leave Your Luggage Behind”

Happy winter solstice ! ❄️🌞

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Well this is disturbing.

Tomorrow night, Wednesday Dec 17 at 6pm, A Deep Dive in the Shallow End (our book club for reads under 200 pages) meets to discuss RING SHOUT by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social. Next up on Jan 21 is Steinbeck’s THE PEARL. Get yours today and get our special book club discount.

A really good breakdown of what LLMs do. (Plus a Molly avatar)

We need to hear some wins right now. Please share victories for collective action, cooperation, etc. Human artists doing great things on a small scale, communities finding their unhoused members homes, local foodways, pedestrian & bike friendly projects, strange guerrilla art, moments of joy.

Free shipping and 20% off a future order at @bookshop.org today! Shop with TFB here: bookshop.org/shop/thefloa...