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How Making Nonfiction Comics Changed My Mind
Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris have created the only primer on ethical comics reporting.
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Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History
Kinnard appears at Rose City Comic Con on Saturday.
We ran this piece in June 2025, but are sharing it again because Rupert Kinnard will be signing books at the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts booth at Rose City Comic Con on Saturday.
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Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History
A new collection of his work explores his artistry and activism.
You’ve probably seen Rupert Kinnard’s smile if you’ve passed the downtown Portland mural on NW Couch at Broadway. A wheelchair user since a car accident in 1996, Kinnard sits between Kathleen Saadat and Lynn Nakamoto, two other icons of Portland’s queer history. Look closer, to the bottom of the mural, and you’ll see two smaller […]
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Favorite Queer Spots in Portland That Are Not a Gay Bar
I love gay bars too! But community doesn’t need to revolve around drinking!
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Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History
A new collection of his work explores his artistry and activism.
You’ve probably seen Rupert Kinnard’s smile if you’ve passed the downtown Portland mural on NW Couch at Broadway. A wheelchair user since a car accident in 1996, Kinnard sits between Kathleen Saadat and Lynn Nakamoto, two other icons of Portland’s queer history. Look closer, to the bottom of the mural, and you’ll see two smaller […]
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Queer Guide Comic: Tips for a COVID-Safer Pride!
Protect your ability to party—and protest—this Pride!
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New Thing in the Lloyd Center: Secret Room Workshop Pop-Up
Through December 23, the little gallery will host art shows, present workshops, and sell riso-printer art.
New artsy thing in the Lloyd Center alert: Through December 23 Secret Room Workshop Pop-up will host art shows, present workshops, and sell riso-printer art.
The space is tidy, the art is intriguing, and the patrons all seemed pretty engaged with it.
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An LA Comics Fest Comes to Create Permanent Damage in Portland
Floating World hosts the grimy indie comics fair in Lloyd Center’s old Ulta Beauty salon.
If you like your comics filled with indie grime, you’ll want to get over to the former Ulta Beauty Salon in the Lloyd Center this weekend for Permanent Damage PDX. If you like your cartoons the same, Clinton Street screens such shorts the night before.
Floating World’s Jason Leivian partnered up with festival organizer Keenan Keller to bring LA’s Permanent Damage show to Portland’s vaporwave home base. Comic books? In the mall?
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Comic Book Interview: Captain America Is Gay Now
Hey, who’s the new guy? Marvel Captain America never meant anything to me, until now. The idea has always seemed absurd: He’s a military jock who represents a racist country ruled by the rich — and we’re supposed to root for him? The character turns eighty years old this year, and as far as I […]
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This Week’s Comics: A Shadow Comes to Life, Monsters Fall in Love, and Pretty Flowers
The correct thing to do in the fall is to watch The Addams Family in October, then Addams Family Values in November. And then, if you’re plagued by awkward family around the holidays, a re-watch of One Normal Night from the musical. But of course, an embrace of the macabre needn’t be limited to the […]
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This Week’s New Comics: Forever Home, My Life in Transition, Strange Academy, and More!
Though it’s technically correct to say that I “watched” the Doctor Strange movie, it’s probably more accurate to describe the process more as a light dozing. I think it’s one of the greatest bummers of the whole Marvel-movie series that they turned a scenery-chewing wizard into a dour asshole, as though audiences are longing for […]
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We Can’t Help But Root for The Drug Addict Go-Getters in Simon Hanselmann’s Bad Gateway
Simon Hanselmann has seen some shit. And now so have we.