My talk show Late Night Action w/ Alex Falcone returns Thursday night at 8pm at Secret Society with comic book author MATT FRACTION plus essayist MARTHA GROVER, comedian (and Guitar Center spokesman) BROCK WILBUR, and musical guest SAMA DAMS. Like I do every month, I’m letting you suggest questions for my interviews. What do you […]
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Jason Momoa, (Possibly) the King of All Things Aqua
JASON MOMOA IS THE BEST. After playing Game of Thrones‘ Khal Drogo (Dothraki warlord), Stargate Atlantis‘ Ronon Dex (Satedan Runner and member of the First Atlantis Reconnaissance Team), and Conan the Barbarian‘s Conan the Barbarian (Schwarzeneggerean hero), rumor has it Momoa might score a role in the Man of Steel sequel—the same one that has […]
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Dark Horse Says So Long to Star Wars
Dark Horse’s Star Wars #12 A little over a year ago, when Disney bought Star Wars, it was one of the first questions we asked: How would the acquisition affect local publisher Dark Horse Comics, which has been putting out Star Wars comics for over two decades? Given that Disney also owns Marvel Comics, the […]
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Why Batman Shouldn’t Quit His Day Job
Don’t ask me how I found this, it just popped up during one of my inscrutable internet searches… but holy god, I am so glad it did! Check out this musical variety number of Adam West as Batman from 1966, as he absolutely butchers “Orange Colored Sky” (originally performed by Nat King Cole). Sometimes butchery […]
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Writer Says You Have to Write to Be a Writer; Tumblr Gets Upset
On his Tumblr, popular Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis often responds to fan questions. Many of the questions are about the writing process. Over the weekend, he got a question that kicked off more of a controversy than usual. Here’s the question: what advice do you have for someone that has had writers block […]
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New Comics Festival Linework NW to Launch in April
Earlier this week, we reported big changes at the Stumptown Comics Festival—after 10 years, the indie comics fest will no longer be a standalone event, but will instead offer programming as part of the Rose City Comic Con. We also reported that a new festival was in the works, and now we can reveal details: […]
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Nerd Prom* Is Cancelled: Stumptown Comics Fest to Merge** with Rose City Comic Con
Stumptown’s final poster, by Mike Russell The first ever Stumptown Comics Festival took place in 2004, at the Old Church in downtown Portland. Around 150 people reportedly attended. In the nine years since, the festival has grown exponentially, playing host to hundreds of comic book creators and thousands of fans, and moving from PSU and […]
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Comics Events Tonight: Video Games, Sadness, and Alien Landscapes
It’s First Thursday, and while on any given monthly art walk you can probably find something comics-related, this evening is offering up a particularly succulent triple-header of nerdy art things. Over at Ground Kontrol Carolyn Main, the artist behind Sex Wizards, is throwing a shindig for the release of her joke book 8 Bit Groan […]
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The Trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Has… A Whole Lot of Stuff
Marc Webb’s unasked-for Spider-Man reboot (Sony has to keep cranking these things out, lest the movie rights to the character revert to Marvel) was a surprising thing: On one hand, it felt rushed and mercenary, but on the other—thanks to across-the-board great casting and a Spider-Man who was actually funny—it was a big improvement over […]
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Win Tickets to Comics Underground!
Pretty Deadly #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Ríos So here’s a super conflict-of-interesty post: This Thursday, Alison and I are hosting the TENTH installment of our Comics Underground comic book performance series. The basics: We take over the Jack London Bar (529 SW 4th), provide a stage and a projection screen and some […]
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Let's All Go to Oregon!
Here is a delightful Travel Portland ad from delightful Portland cartoonist Steve Lieber. That Portland sure seems like a nice place to spend my money!
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Joe Sacco's Newest Comic Will Be For the Internet. THE INTERNET!
Portland-based cartoon journalist Joe Sacco has written and drawn about the Middle East, Bosnia, Portland, and most recently World War I. For his latest project he’s going back to the Balkans. Srebrenica, is a webcomic that looks back on a massacre in the Balkans through the eyes of one improbable survivor. The project is something […]