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Polyamorous Sci-Fi Graphic Novel Open Earth Feels Lost in Space
Sarah Mirk’s debut graphic novel feels overwhelmed by its own potential at times but offers excellent Polyamory 101 reading.
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Chelsea Cain’s Twitter Tricks and Man-Eaters Hints
How the Portland Writer Vanquished an Internet Outrage Cycle and Returned to Comics Creepier and Cooler Than Ever
Chelsea Cain returns to Twitter and comics with her new Image series Man-Eaters.
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New Graphic Novels: The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, Sanpaku and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
Check Out My Very Good Taste in Comics
Our new graphic novel recommendations are The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, Sanpaku and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles.
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Ed Piskor’s X-Men: Grand Design Is a Comics Cliffs Notes for X-Men
Boiling Down 8,000 Pages of X-Men to a Six-Issue Arc
Ed Piskor, 8,000 pages of X-Men comics, and Professor X’s tighty whities.
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Surprises and Horrors in Full Bleed, Portland’s New Comics and Culture Quarterly
Also Included: Punk Rock, U-Boats, and Alan Moore Fighting a Demon
Also included: punk rock, U-boats, and Alan Moore fighting a demon.
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Orange Thief Makes the Case for Published Sketchbooks
The Unsettling, Imaginative Illustrations of Sophie Franz
The Unsettling, Imaginative Illustrations of Sophie Franz
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Short-Form Comics You Will Love
Things of Beauty from Kevin Budnick, Anne Pomel, and More
Things of beauty from Kevin Budnick, Anne Pomel, and more.
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Spinning Hits Full Rotation
Teen Graphic Memoir Author Tillie Walden Comes to Wordstock
Teen graphic memoir author Tillie Walden comes to Wordstock.
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My Pretty Vampire’s Cartoonish Violence
Katie Skelly’s Love Letter to ’70s Woman-Centric Vampire Cinema
Katie Skelly’s love letter to ’70s woman-centric vampire cinema.
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An Excerpt from Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home
Nicole Georges on Her Lovable, Cranky Pup
In Fetch, Portland artist Nicole Georges tells the story of her close friendship with her badly behaving, very lovable dog, Beija. The Mercury’s Suzette Smith calls it a book “for anyone who’s ever really loved a dog.” Here, Georges shares the tale of enforcing her dog’s boundaries—and her own. MEGAN BURBANK Fetch: How a Bad […]
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Tongues’ New God Flow
Portland’s Anders Nilsen Debuts a New Comic, With Greek Drama, God Drama, and Strange Wars
Portland’s Anders Nilsen debuts a new comic, with Greek drama, god drama, and strange wars.