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Study Group Takes Comics Seriously
The Local Magazine Applies a Critical Lens to the Art Form
Comic Books
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Remembering Meticulous Comics Artist Geneviève Castrée Elverum
Geneviève Castrée Elverum Geneviève Castrée Elverum’s work may be familiar to you, maybe not. She produced a powerful, personal graphic novel three years ago, called Susceptible, about her estranged relationships with her family and that unsettling experience of later seeing her family’s harmful patterns in her own actions. Her comics also appeared in collections like […]
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Local Comics Creators Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction Discuss Their Latest Joint Ventures
When you’re in the home of the author of a book called Bitch Planet, subtlety isn’t the order of the day. Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, the creative headquarters of comic book rock stars Kelly Sue DeConnick (Bitch Planet, Captain Marvel) and Matt Fraction (Sex Criminals, Hawkeye), […]
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The Foodie Hijinks and Horse People of Lisa Hanawalt’s Hot Dog Taste Test
Lisa Hanawalt’s the one responsible for BoJack Horseman‘s unique character designs. Lisa Hanawalt Remember watching the first season of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman, when somewhere in the middle of that sad-man-pony story you began to notice that the half-people/half-animals in the background were doing super odd things and wearing really cool outfits? That was Lisa Hanawalt. […]
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Tonight: Local Comics Artist and Author of My Boyfriend Walt Whitman Menorah Horwitz Presents Her Latest
As homework for this comic, I would suggest the documentary film Paris is Burning. Floating World Comics Tonight, local comics artist and author of My Boyfriend Walt Whitman and The Wookie Woof Book Menorah Horwitz presents her new fictitious history, published by Floating World Comics, about the Miss U.S. of Heya beauty pageant competition in […]
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Welcome to the Superhero Pajama Jam, X-Men!
It’s never really stopped being 2003 in the X-Universe. Even as the X-Men films skipped across timelines in decade-long leaps, they’ve carried with them the same faint air of apology—a low-level hum of embarrassment softly buzzing inside their time-locked bubble. “This is all really silly, isn’t it?” each film seemed to whisper, summer after summer. […]
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X-Men: Apocalypse Plays Catch-Up
Welcome to the Superhero Pajama Jam, X-Men!
Welcome to the superhero pajama jam, X-Men!
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Picks for Linework NW: Sophie Franz and Lindsay Anne Watson
Sophie Franz’s dream-like, mysterious yarn about three scientists marooned or stationed (they can’t remember) in a floating home. Retrofit Comics Going to comics fest Linework NW this weekend? Here are two participating artists not to miss. Sophie Franz is a wonderful Portland artist working in mixed media, photorealistic painting, and cartooning. After seeing her short […]
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Video Tonfa: Seven Years of Tim Goodyear’s Movie Zine
My friend stole a copy of the Cometbus Omnibus anthology from the bedroom of a shady anarchist in San Diego. She sent it to me with a card reading, “Now who doesn’t believe in possessions?” A year later, a roommate’s friend stole the anthology (and some other stuff) from me. My point is: Zine anthologies […]
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The Portland Mercury‘s Definitive Review of Captain America: Cap and Iron Man Get Their Iddy-Biddy Feewings Hurt
Technically, anyone can have a “civil war.” I get that. There were places and people having them long before America’s kicked off in 1861—and yet? The American Civil War still hangs heavy over current political and race relations (oh, hello, Mississippi state flag), which is why I’m not all that comfortable tossing the term around […]
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Iron Man and Captain America Hurt Each Other’s Widdle Feewings in Civil War
Plus! Spider-Man! Ant-Man! Winter Soldier Complaining About Riding in the Backseat of a VW Bug!
Plus! Spider-Man! Ant-Man! Winter Soldier complaining about riding in the backseat of a VW Bug!
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Marvel vs. DC: The Ultimate Comic Cookbook Battle!
[From E+D, the Mercury‘s new Spring Eat & Drink Guide!] FOR DECADES, obnoxious nerds such as myself have fought one of the stupidest fights in the world: Marvel vs. DC. In years past, this inane argument was about which comic book company was best: While Marvel sells Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Avengers, DC offers […]