I guess I don’t understand the point of San Diego Comic-Con anymore. It used to be the event where the comic book industry revealed their most exciting plans for the year ahead, but now those announcements are spread around to all the various conventions, especially New York Comic Con and Chicago Comic Con. For a […]
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Jesse Moynihan At Floating World Tonight
Graphic novelist and Adventure Time storyboard artist Jesse Moynihan will be signing copies of his new comic Forming II tonight at Floating World. Forming II is a sequel to Forming, both published by London’s Nobrow Press. The series concerns: Epic confrontations between gods and mutants, philosophical reflections, hilarious dialogue and powerful artwork make for an […]
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Win Tickets to the FINAL Comics Underground!
Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky Tomorrow’s it, people: After three years and 11 shows, Alison and I are ending our Comics Underground reading series. Tomorrow night’s show is our 12th and final Comics Underground—and we’ve lined up no fewer than six of our favorite Portland creators to end the goddamn thing in […]
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Today’s Recommended Reading: Lumberjanes #1, Which Is Currently Free, So You Have No Excuse
Lumberjanes #1 by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and Brooke A. Allen Lumberjanes is a fantastic all-ages book by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and Brooke A. Allen; boasting charm and attitude in equal measure, it’s a delight to read, and exactly the sort of book that the overly homogenized comic book industry could use a lot […]
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In Memoriam: Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man
ANT-MAN “Well, back to sucking again!” With last week’s announcement that Edgar Wright will no longer be directing Marvel’s Ant-Man, any interest anyone had in the film vanished like an out-of-phase Pym particle*. Hey, I like Paul Rudd as much as anybody (and, let’s be honest, probably more than my spot on the Kinsey scale […]
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Aww! Look at Ben Affleck’s Tiny Little Bat Ears!
Well, this morning Zack Snyder went and tweeted the first picture of Ben Affleck as Batman. You can’t see much, but that’s definitely a Batman! And he’s definitely doing what he likes to do best: dress up in a costume and leave his billion-dollar mansion to go beat up poor people mope in front of […]
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Congrats to Portland’s Eisner Nominees
Nominees for the comic book industry’s biggest awards were announced today, and plenty of Portland creators and publishers made the list. The winners will be announced at Comic-Con International in San Diego in July, but here are the locals who snagged nominations: Kelly Sue DeConnick: Nominated for best writer for beautifully creepy Western Pretty Deadly. […]
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Linework NW Killed It This Weekend
Caroline Smith On Saturday I went to the inaugural edition of Linework NW, Portland’s new comics and art festival, and I gotta say—I was impressed! The show was busy, the energy in the room was great, and both the crowd and the exhibitors seemed to be enjoying themselves. The Norse Hall was a perfect venue […]
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The Short Con Is My New Favorite Comic
Erik and I co-wrote a big article about the new comics festival Linework NW in the paper this week—it’s a one-day arts and comics show tomorrow at the Norse Hall, it’s free, it’s bringing in some awesome people including Michael DeForge and Jim Woodring, and we’re excited about it. One of Linework’s co-founders, Zack Soto, […]
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Can’t Read Comics With Netflix: Amazon Buys ComiXology
It was already described by some as Kindle for comics. Now it’s pretty much exactly that: Amazon has acquired digital comics platform ComiXology. The name (with that goofy capital X) will remain the same, as explained in this letter (with its own goofy faux-typesetting) from co-founder and CEO David Steinberger. I’m sure somewhere someone is […]
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Today’s Comics Reading: Kate Beaton’s Ducks
Kate Beaton Kate Beaton has a new comic up—a longer and more serious one than you might be used to if you just bump into her stuff online every once in a while. It’s also 100 percent fantastic, and you should read it immediately. It’s all online, and Beaton’s short introduction (“Ducks is about a […]
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Tonight! Batman ’66 Signing at Cosmic Monkey!
From Batman ’66 by Jeff Parker and Jonathan Case From 5-7 pm tonight at Cosmic Monkey Comics (5335 NE Sandy), Jeff Parker and Jonathan Case are going to be signing copies of their fancy new hardcover collection of Batman ’66, their fantastically fun comic that captures everything insane and delightful about the old-school Batman TV […]