From The Sabertooth Vampire by Mike Russell. Via. As seen in My, What a Busy Week!… NERD PARTY—Conflict-of-interest alert! Mercury Editors Alison Hallett and Erik Henriksen put together a monthly night (well, semimonthly. Slackers.) combining two excellent local pastimes: comics and drinking in a basement. It’s really fun! Tonight’s Comics Underground hosts Dylan Meconis, Mike […]
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Frank Miller Doesn’t Know Much of Anything
Over the weekend, sci-fi author David Brin responded to comics artist Frank Miller’s dumb rant against Occupy Wall Street. Brin tears Miller apart by proving that one of his best-loved comics, 300, is founded on lies and a willfully ignorant reading of history. It’s titled “Move over, Frank Miller: or why the Occupy Wall Street […]
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Top Shelf Embraces Digital
From League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969 Portland- and Atlanta-based publisher Top Shelf’s offered a few digital comics in the past, but with their new iOS app powered by Comixology (a company that, considering it also run the apps for Marvel and DC, is quickly becoming a sort of digital Diamond), they’re finally offering a […]
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Occupy Portland Comic: Sexualize Pieland
Suzette Smith CLICK THROUGH FOR BONUS COMIC! BONUS COMIC: Suzette Smith Hypothesis: swisher sweets
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Comics News: Boilerplate Movie! Marvel Goes All the Way with Digital! Sexy Sex Comics!
Via BOILERPLATE He’s been in movies before. No big deal. • Boilerplate—the mechanical marvel created by Portlanders Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett—has snagged a couple of screenwriters to tell his illustrious story on film. J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company picked up Boilerplate’s film rights a while ago, and now Deadline‘s reporting that JD Payne […]
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Biebers
Sharp-eyed commenter Joneser tipped me off to this hoot o’ the day: A tumblr that turns celebrity noses into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Most notably… TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA BIEBER! Oh, yes! Many more of your fave celebs being turtle-ized here.
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In Which the Avengers Celebrate Their Freedom of Assembly
So here’s what the fanboys are going to do: They’re going to watch this trailer on a frame-by-frame basis, tear into the goofy-ass music, argue that something Character X says contradicts something Character Y did in May of 1974, write thousand-word prognostications about who’s shooting those purple lasers, complain about how jokey all these characters […]
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Barnes & Noble Tells DC Comics to Suck It
Damn, Barnes & Noble. Following DC Comics’ announcement that 100 of their most popular graphic novels would be digitally exclusive to the Kindle Fire—books like Watchmen, Sandman, The Dark Knight, Fables, Y the Last Man, and V for Vendetta—Barnes & Noble has yanked the physical copies of those books from their stores. “We pulled those […]
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Dill Pickle Walking Tours Get City All Over Your Brain
Last week I went on a Dill Pickle Walking Tour and had a blast—a community-geek, city-interested blast. It took me until now to compress all the cool shit I learned into a comic. City planning is an interest of mine but since I live in Portland, there are a ton of people my age who […]
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Another Installment of Intern Thoughts: A Business Proposition
Whenever I’m feeling down I like to come up with business propositions. This business proposition revolves around my desire to roll with a pug on a faux bear skin carpet. The problem is that I don’t want to OWN a pug. And PEOPLE are always so suspicious when you clasp your arms around their pet […]
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Tomorrow Night: Comics Underground!
CONFLICT OF INTEREST! CONFLICT OF INTEREST! But eh… whatever. Onward! So a few months ago, Alison and I put on an event called Comics Underground. Held at the newish bar the Jack London, located in the basement of the Rialto (529 SW 4th), it featured readings/performances from local comics creators, impromptu live musical accompaniment, and […]
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Wordstock: “Graphic Novels: Not Just for Geeks.”
A few years ago, Alison Bechdel was a featured artist at Wordstock. Last year, political cartoonist Matt Bors joined a panel on war reporting. Craig Thompson is a guest at this year’s festival, and Oni Press is doing an editorial workshop. All of this is to say that Wordstock KNOWS that graphic novels are “not […]