As we head into a weekend busy with readings and protests, it’s important to keep track of your Craig Thompson appearances. This would be the weekend to catch him, while a healthy bulk of Portland’s youth is concentrated elsewhere. TONIGHT at first Thursday Thompson is signing books at Floating World Comics on the corner of […]
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What Is This Robot Doing In The Closet!?
The first sentence of this book is literally, “There was a robot in the closet.”
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Picket Line Release Party At The Woods
Picket Line is a new graphic novel from Portland author Breena Widerhoeft. It tells the story of Beatrice, a girl from the Midwest living in northern California who gets caught up in a local conflict between land developers and environmentalists. It is Widerhoeft’s first book and it was self published with assistance from the Xeric […]
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Poor Claudia Goes Nonprofit
Local publisher/journal Poor Claudia has successfully filed for nonprofit status. The brain child of local writers/editors/designers Drew Swenhaugen and Marshall Walker Lee, Poor Claudia publishes two journals and four chapbooks a year. In an effort to expand their scope, the company is now a nonprofit. As a nonprofit, Poor Claudia hopes to expand its staff […]
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Literary Mixtape
Tonight three Portland writers will be at Valentine’s sharing their Literary Mixtapes. And as you can see from the flyer, SARAH MIRK IS GONNA READ STORIES TO YOU OUT LOUD. The concept of Literary Mixtapes is awesome. Writers and artists choose several pieces to share with an audience and then give a reading. The evenings […]
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Smalldoggies Marks A Year Of Readings
It seems like longer than a year ago that I first attended a Smalldoggies reading, but the series has grown so much since then. After two venue changes the series has found a permanent home at The Blue Monk on the second Tuesday of every month hosted by founders Carrie Seitzinger and Matty Byloos. The […]
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THIS! Fest This Weekend
As if you didn’t have enough to keep you busy, Portland just keeps on giving. Tonight and tomorrow night at The Woods, a bunch of Portland writers and musicians and artists are convening to party and give short readings. And there is no entry fee. It’s a free show. Awesome. The doors open at 4:30 […]
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Books Are Dead, Long Live Books
At The Wall Street Journal, Joseph Epstein uses his review of The Cambridge History of the American Novel to trash English departments across the country and liberal higher education in general. What’s more, I mostly agree with him, though I would probably word my argument more like this: “The baby boomers and their imaginary PC […]
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Changes Good and Bad in Portland’s Comic Book Scene
News and changes in Portland’s comic book community.
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It’s Hard To Be A Good Capitalist
In today’s New York Times, Mark Bittman takes aim at our government’s constant coddling of business interests over environmental health and considerations. He accuses President Obama of having no better environmental policy than President Bush and points out recent examples of policies favoring Monsanto, the agricultural giant, and the new Keystone XL pipeline that will […]
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Banned In New Jersey: Your Daily Murakami Post
School is starting soon; you can tell because kids are finally reading the books on their summer reading lists and thinking, “holy crap there are lesbian sex scenes in this book!” And then some stupid kid rats out the book to their parents, and then they try to get one of the best authors alive […]
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Guapo Closes, Floating World Moves, And Sparkplug Needs Your Help
Sad news for the Portland comics community: Dylan Williams, head of Sparkplug Comics, is extremely ill, and like most independently employed creative Americans, he has no health care. Comics blogs Exquisite Things and High-Low have compiled lists of suggested reading from Sparkplug to help raise money for Williams treatment. In the last week alone Blogtown […]