Whether it’s Wordstock or the Stumptown Comics Fest, the book fair model is always the same: A convention hall full of table after table of slightly wild-eyed artists, publishers, and writers hand-selling their wares to attendees who are largely just trying to avoid eye contact. A few panels and signings. A general sense that while […]
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Comics Underground! Tonight!
From “Easy” by Leia Weathington and Erika Moen Ah, the “Conflict of Interest” tag. My favorite tag on Blogtown! Here’s what Sarah Mirk wrote about tonight’s Comics Underground in My, What a Busy Week! DRUNKEN COMICS—Six excellent comics artists present new work tonight at the semi-regular boozing event Comics Underground (hosted by the Merc‘s Alison […]
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Ancient Argo-tifacts!
via Wired Hahaha Argo-tifacts! I’m sorry. MOVING ON, if you were one of the too-few people who saw the excellent Argo this weekend, this is pretty great: Wired has a gallery of some of the original “props,” for lack of a better word, that the CIA put together to make it look like they were […]
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Tonight at Bridge City Comics: Raina Telgemeir
Looking for an age-appropriate comic book for the recalcitrant tween in your life? Here’s a late-breaking event that fits the bill: Tonight Raina Telgemeir, creator of the well-received graphic memoir Smile, will be at Bridge City Comics signing copies of her new book Drama. In a warm review of Drama, the Times called Raina Telgemeir […]
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A Whole Bunch of Walking Dead Events
THE WALKING DEAD Nobody told me The Golden Girls was back on the air! Ka-ZING! The Walking Dead might be an awful TV show*, but you, my fellow nerds, still like it**, so this will be of interest: First, this Sunday at 7 pm, the season premiere is gonna be screening at both the Academy […]
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On the Road with Floating World: Animal Collective
It’s been a while since we’ve seen an installment of On the Road with Floating World, in which Floating World Comics proprietor Jason Leivian handpicks a few comics recommendations for musicians playing in town. We’re happy to welcome Jason back with some recommendations for Animal Collective, who are playing tonight at the Crystal. Swing by […]
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This Should Keep You Busy for a Few Hours.
Here’s today’s xkcd web comic. Have fun.
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“Technically, fictional mutants have more rights than real gay people.”
“Earlier this month at Dragon Con, Brian Parsley and his longtime partner George Lewis recreated the cover of Astonishing X-Men #51, where Northstar gets married to his partner Kyle Lindau in front of pretty much all of Marvel’s mutants,” writes Topless Robot’s Rob Bricken. “The only difference? Northstar actually did get married, but Dragon Con […]
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Bane’s Still Doing Great
Bane the Telemarketer with Chris Kattan from Chris Kattan The first one is here. I like that Chris Kattan shaved his head for this one. He’s starting to take it seriously. Also I wish Warner Bros. would just turn this into a sitcom, possibly called Bane!
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Top Shelf Sale!
from Jeff Lemire’s The Underwater Welder Heads up, comics readers/readers in general: The partially based-in-Portland Top Shelf Productions is having its annual web sale, and they’ve slash-slash-slashed prices on a ton of great books. The full sale list is here, but here are a few books I’d recommend in particular. Holy jesus some of these […]
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Probably the Best Birthday Party Ever
Every parent on the planet probably hates Portland comics-writing couple Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick—not only are they both talented and successful and great*, but they also somehow find the time to throw amazing birthday parties for their kids. Take the one that happened this past weekend, which was all over Twitter yesterday and […]
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Tonight at the Bagdad: Tim Burton’s Batman
It’s hard to overstate how obsessed nine-year-old me was with Tim Burton’s Batman in 1989, and it’s even harder to overstate how obsessed everyone was with Tim Burton’s Batman in 1989. Take this: About one out of every four people in America saw Tim Burton’s Batman in theaters. Or this: The Dark Knight Rises won’t […]