Featuring bullied children, lost friends, and suicidal mammoths.
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The Best of the Best of the NW Animation Fest
Bullied Children. Lost Friends. Suicidal Mammoths.
Suzette Smith
Suzette Smith is the arts & culture editor of the Portland Mercury. Go ahead and tell her about all your food, art, and culture gripes: suzette@portlandmercury.com. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky, and Letterboxd.
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Word of Mouth
The Abstract, Tender Comics of Jason Overby
The abstract, tender comics of Jason Overby.
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Shade Game Strong
Meet the Aspiring Oprahs of Podcasting, Throwing Shade‘s Bryan Safi and Erin Gibson
Meet the aspiring Oprahs of podcasting, Bryan Safi and Erin Gibson.
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Felicia Day: Less Weird Than She Thinks She Is (Actually)
The Buffy Actress’ New Memoir Is Fascinating, But Not For the Reasons She Thinks
The Buffy actress’ new memoir is fascinating, but not for the reasons she thinks.
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Dark Places Is Kind of Like Gone Girl (Except Bad)
Everyone in This Movie Is Getting Typecast
Everyone in this movie is getting typecast.
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Haints Stay: Colin Winnette Takes Us to His Spooky West
Two Dollar Radio “THERE’S A COOLNESS that reminds me of Cormac McCarthy—but I like this more than McCarthy.” “Haints stay where and as they please,” the woman says grimly. It’s her philosophy and she tells it to the newcomers, brothers Brooke and Sugar, to let them know she accepts them. She won’t think of them […]
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Ghost Town
Colin Winnette Takes Us to His Spooky West
Colin Winnette takes us to his spooky West.
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Tomorrow Night: New Books from Indie Comics Masters Anders Nilsen and Marc Bell
Floating World Comics Dream Team. Anders Nilsen’s new collection of comic strips and ink illustrations, Poetry is Useless, contains a little comic where he’s trying to summarize his enormous opus Big Questions (2011, Drawn and Quarterly) to a woman on a plane. ”Six hundred pages. Little birds in the middle of nowhere. A crashed airplane. […]
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With Small Backs of Children, Lidia Yuknavitch Reinvents the Novel
LIDIA YUKNAVITCH takes risks! She is anything but boring. If I were writing this article on a wall, I would write “Lidia Yuknavitch starts shit,” and mean it in a very positive way. With her 2012 Oregon Book Award-winning The Chronology of Water, Yuknavitch held firm that her book was an anti-memoir—a novel written about […]
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Risky Business
The Uncompromising Lidia Yuknavitch
The uncompromising Lidia Yuknavitch reinvents the novel.
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Sketchtastic!
The Aces Are at the Top of Their Game in For Your Pleasure
The Aces are at the top of their game in For Your Pleasure.
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All Good Things
When Marnie Was There: The Last Movie from Studio Ghibli?
When Marnie Was There: the last movie from Studio Ghibli?