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Alaska Robotics Gallery

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Hi! We're the Alaska Robotics Gallery in downtown Juneau. We carry local artwork, comics, board games, art supplies, picture books, postcards and graphic tees. Swing by or check out our stock online: https://alaskarobotics.com

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · 1d

Applications are open for 2026!

PaTrick-or-Treat 👻🎃 @pat.alaskarobotics.com · 3d

We host a spring Comics Camp up in Juneau, Alaska and the applications are now open:

2026 Comics Camp Application

Alaska Robotics Comics Camp Convention & In-Town Events: May 7th - May 9th, 2026 Camp Dates: May 9th - May 13th, 2026 ************************ Have you attended in the past? Feel free to skip any o...

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · 23d

Great new event for local artists at the Alaska State Museum: www.juneauindependent.com/post/quick-d...

Quick-draw artist: Debut museum art series leads with Chris Taylor

Sketching workshop kicks off events scheduled on first and third Saturdays of each month through April of 2026.

www.juneauindependent.com

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · 26d

It's Study Hall night at the gallery. A free public event for GMs and players to work on their games and characters and make Juneau TTRPG community. 6-9pm

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Sep 6

First Friday featuring films about JAMHI and artists from JAMHI, Lemon Creek Correctional, and Juneau Reentry Coalition.

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NowFollowing Natalie @natalieak.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hung up @alaskarobotics.com art in my office to liven up the beige.

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Aug 10

First comic book store in Alaska!

David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · Aug 10

1972 KTVF footage of the Comic Shop opening in Fairbanks, the first comic book store in Alaska. David Mollett owned the shop, & he went on to a distinguished fine art career. Via UAF's Alaska Film Archives. #alaskahistory #alaska

Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Aug 2

Come on by to see the rest and check out the augmented reality pieces Glo made!

Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Aug 2

We also have a Glo Ramírez show this month!

Not what it seems. An augmented reality art piece.

Illustration on acrylic. Ravens saying, "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!"

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Aug 2

First Friday! Here's some of Lybbie Brown's work...

Frog wizard on a mug and frog flipping the bird in background.

Artist bio. https://mossmaiden.myshopify.com/

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · Jul 21

So many of the best trends in comics today can be traced back to the debut of Flight Magazine in 2004. Check out the reissue of that seminal anthology here inklorebooks.com/series.

They even reprinted my somewhat bizarre afterword (it was odd in 2004; it's even odder now)!

The cover to the newly reissued anthology Flight Magazine Volume #1 from Inklore Books, featuring a beautiful painting with a winged adventurer, blimp, biplane, fantasy city—you name it.

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jul 16

Stocked back up on fish and dragons and birds!

Finspan game held in front of shelf of wingspan.

Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jul 16

Our sign is back in action!

Now we can stop hearing, "Whaaaaat is this place?" And go back to hearing, "Where are the robots?"

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jul 10

Yes! New spinner rack assembled for our used book section!

This summer all our previously read floppy comics are a buck!

Buried a few treasures in there for the spelunkers.

Key kids! Comics! Exclaims a spinner rack full of floppy comics.

Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jun 25

Upcoming, it's the JUMP Society film festival and July First Friday... Which is actually opening on Thursday the 3rd if you're trying to catch the cheese and crackers reception.

Posters hanging in gallery window for film festival and gallery show.

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PaTrick-or-Treat 👻🎃 @pat.alaskarobotics.com · Jun 24

Baby Spider-Man
#makeaterriblecomicday2025 #comics

Comic: Doc Octo-guy says to Baby Spider-Man, "Bro. Why they call you the Baby Spider-Man?" Then Baby Spider-Man starts fizzing some goop from his goop fizzers. It's a foaming popping hatching mess. Doc Octo-guy says, "AIIEE FUKIN GROsssssss! Million BABY SPIDERS!"

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jun 24

PAPER FLOWERS FOR SALE!!!

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · Jun 24

tell me all the businesses that inexplicably survived or inexplicably failed in your neighborhood

Wondermark #1569; The Foldery has Folded

A couple walks down the street, the man in a turban, the woman in a very high-collared fur coat. This is ASHWAY and BERTREX

A: You know that origami flower shop we keep talking about maybe one day wandering through?
A: I finally had an occasion for which I would have liked some paper flowers. But they’ve closed!

B: That’s a shame, they just opened like five years ago!
B: I wonder how much of our community is powered by people imprudently opening wildly unprofitable businesses, pouring their time and savings into them for the period of exactly one commercial lease, then letting them close.

B: Like, it didn’t turn out to be sustainable, but for a while, you offered some cool origami classes for kids, and some people in the neighborhood have some paper flowers in their homes now? I assume?

B: Sorry it didn’t make you a millionaire, but you shoved the big stone wheel back uphill a few turns, and that helped us all.
A: And, in this metaphor, the big stone wheel is...
B: The thing that’ll smash us all into dust with its uncaring inertia if we don’t hold it at bay with our collective effort, yeah

A: Okay, cool. And our collective effort, in this context, means buying forty-dollar paper flowers?
B: Is THAT how much they cost?
B: I kept meaning to look in the store window when I walked by, but I never managed to tear my eyes away from my phone.

Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jun 24

Coming up in July, Epic Fantasy Creatures of Alaska by @holliskitchin.bsky.social and @pat.alaskarobotics.com

A poster for an art show. Epic Fantasy Creatures of Alaska. A showing of illustrations & illuminations by Hollis Kitchin and Pat Race. It has dragons and a Bearclops on it. And some kind of cool Orca serpent guy.

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jun 23

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Sara Hannan @repsarahannan.bsky.social · Jun 21

A fabulous first hand account. As a dyslectic reader graphic novels have allowed me to find pleasure in reading. #historymatters

Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · Jun 21

Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.

Cover of George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy” showing a young Japanese American boy in a line of people being sent to an internment camp guarded by a uniformed American soldier

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Hollis Kitchin @holliskitchin.bsky.social · Jun 19

A sneak peek of one of my completed paintings for my show with @pat.alaskarobotics.com at @alaskarobotics.com in July.

A watercolor and gouache illustration of a raven wolf hybrid, head and wings of a raven, body of a wolf, sitting in a cave on a moonlit night.

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jun 16

On the backs of small animals. Now afterthoughts amidst the spectacle of Alaskan wildlife, small animals with their luscious furs were once a fulcrum upon which local history unfolded...

Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jun 16

We have an amazing exhibit up right now by Andrea Nelson of Haines that comments on the expansive colonialist brutality of Alaska's early fur trade.

"Not Here" - Value was once measured not in coins, but the pelts of beaver...

The Hudson Bay Company, Canada's first business, focused on the acquisition of fur.

"Chinoiserie" in the sophisticated port of Canton, China, the hulls of ships were emptied of Alaskan sea otter furs and filled with tea, silk and porcelain...

Qing Dynasty coins, with holes in their centers were revered by Tlingits, embellishing regalia to shimmer when danced, and lining armor.

"Royal Replacements" On the headdresses of Tlingit chiefs and robes of European kings, the skin of ermine with black tipped tails trail royalty.

In exchange, glass beads and wool came into the territory... Replacing the quills of porcupines for embellishing garments and positions.

"The Temptation of Paris" A tuft of fur along a faint path of snowy paw prints guides the placement of a steel trap. Calloused hands pull back the springs. From aristocrats of the Middle Ages to Edwardians, the silk dresses of high society European ladies are draped in it.

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Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jun 13

We got some of these guys. Limited to four packs per customer so everyone gets a shot.

Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jun 13

GM Study Hall tonight at 5:30pm w/ Conor Lendrum.

Alaska Robotics Gallery @alaskarobotics.com · Jun 11

We've been donated this "Alaskan Lobbyist" by Mary Ellen Frank at the Doll Museum.

She's moving out, so go see her collection while you can!

#akleg

An alligator dressed in a suit and bowler with a bottle of Jim Beam, a briefcase and some ciggys.

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