From Modest Medusa by Jake Richmond Hey! Alison and I do this thing! We’re doing one tonight! You should come! Via My, What a Busy Week!… BASEMENT NERDS—Comics Underground is Portland’s most fun comics event—and I’d say that even if it weren’t hosted by the Mercury‘s arts and film editors. This month, artists Colleen Coover, […]
Conflict of Interest
Posted inPodcast
The Last cortandfatboy Show. SAD PANDA FACE.
Thomas Wilson Blaurgh. I have the SADs now. The last cortandfatboy podcast is on December 7. For almost 10 years, Cort Webber and Bobby “Fatboy” Roberts (conflict of interest alert: Fatboy is the Mercury‘s calendar editor) have put out extremely funny audio content, first on the old-timey radio and for years now on their five-times-a-week […]
Posted inComic Books
Comics Underground! Tonight!
From “Easy” by Leia Weathington and Erika Moen Ah, the “Conflict of Interest” tag. My favorite tag on Blogtown! Here’s what Sarah Mirk wrote about tonight’s Comics Underground in My, What a Busy Week! DRUNKEN COMICS—Six excellent comics artists present new work tonight at the semi-regular boozing event Comics Underground (hosted by the Merc‘s Alison […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Get Your Tickets to see The Lost Boys!
Conflict of interest? YOU BETCHA. But it’s a conflict you want to know about! Guys! I’m very honored to be in the upcoming theatrical production of The Lost Boys: Live!—playing every weekend this month over at the IFCC theater (5430 N Interstate)! If you were a fan of last year’s mega-hit Road House: The Play, […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Oni Press Presents The Big Sleep at the Hollywood
God, the Hollywood has just gotten so great in the past couple of years. Their programming is more varied and more accessible than it used to be, and those new theater seats are pretty dang comfortable. It’s also great to see local arts organizations partnering for one-off events, and the Hollywood has embarked on a […]
Posted inComic Books
Thursday Comics Events
There are a LOT of comics-related events going on tomorrow night, which—because I am hosting one of them—makes me feel a bit like this. Here’s a rundown: Grendel 30th Anniversary Book Release/Art Show—I’ve never read Matt Wagner’s Grendel series, but a number of people I respect really like it. That’s at Floating World (400 NW […]
Posted inComic Books
Tonight at Floating World: Casanova Release Party
From Casanova: Avaritia, art by Gabriel BÁ When he isn’t getting pushed down hills behind Comic-Con, Portland’s Matt Fraction is one of the best comics writers around. And tonight he’s having a party at Floating World Comics (400 NW Couch) to mark the release of the trade paperback of Casanova: Avaritia—the final volume in his […]
Posted inMedia
Other Advice Columnists Wonder Why They Get So Few Questions From Men
Gee, maybe it has something to do with crap like this. (We need a term like “slut shaming” that applies in cases like this—e.g., when it’s normal and healthy male sexuality and sexual expression that is being stigmatized and pathologized.)
Posted inComedy
Interview with a “Me”: Funemployment Radio
For those who aren’t quite sick of “me”—or think I’m sick and want to know why I’m so sick—tune into the latest edition of Funemployment Radio, in which I’m interviewed by hosts Greg and Sarah X, who delve into my greatest secrets… such as! • The secret, almost-never-told-before origins of the Mercury!• How someone so […]
Posted inBooks
Jamie S. Rich’s Serialized New Novel
A character sketch for Rich’s protagonist Parker Reid Local writer/Mercury freelancer/my pal Jamie S. Rich has a handful of novels and comics under his belt—most recently, the Spellcheckers series, out from Oni Press—and he’s just begun serializing his newest novel, Bobby Pins & Mary James. You can read the first 40 or so pages right […]
Posted inCats
This Is What You Are Doing Tonight: Comics Underground!
From the Shameless Self-Promotion Dept.: Mercury Arts Editor Alison and I are putting on an event tonight! You should come! It’s Comics Underground, and it takes place at a magical location where comic books, booze, and performance collide! By which I mean the Jack London Bar in the basement of the Rialto. Here’s the deal: […]
Posted inBooks
Last Day for Night Shade Books’ 50 Percent-Off Sale
Genre publisher Night Shade Books is having a 50 percent-off sale—one inspired by both a need to clear out inventory, and, sadly/unsurprisingly, to get “caught up after the Publishing Apocalypse of 2011.” Today’s the last day the sale’s in effect, so heads up. Night Shade puts out some good stuff (particularly work by Paolo Bacigalupi, […]