Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History

A new collection of his work explores his artistry and activism.

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!

Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History

A new collection of his work explores his artistry and activism.

Queer Guide Comic: Tips for a COVID-Safer Pride!

Protect your ability to party—and protest—this Pride!

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.

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.

Comic Book Interview: Captain America Is Gay Now

This Week's Comics: A Shadow Comes to Life, Monsters Fall in Love, and Pretty Flowers

This Week's New Comics: Forever Home, My Life in Transition, Strange Academy, and More!

We Can’t Help But Root for The Drug Addict Go-Getters in Simon Hanselmann’s Bad Gateway

Meet Portland's New Comics Festival: Portland Indie Con

Polyamorous Sci-Fi Graphic Novel Open Earth Feels Lost in Space

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

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

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

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

Orange Thief Makes the Case for Published Sketchbooks

The Unsettling, Imaginative Illustrations of Sophie Franz

Short-Form Comics You Will Love

Things of Beauty from Kevin Budnick, Anne Pomel, and More

Spinning Hits Full Rotation

Teen Graphic Memoir Author Tillie Walden Comes to Wordstock

My Pretty Vampire’s Cartoonish Violence

Katie Skelly’s Love Letter to ’70s Woman-Centric Vampire Cinema

An Excerpt from Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home

Nicole Georges on Her Lovable, Cranky Pup

Tongues’ New God Flow

Portland’s Anders Nilsen Debuts a New Comic, With Greek Drama, God Drama, and Strange Wars

Pop Gun War’s Magic Explosion-ism

Farel Dalrymple’s Surrealist Comic Book is Action-Packed as All Hell

This Week in the Mercury: Queers Illustrated

The Heroes Inside

The Internal Lives of Superheroines from a Transperson’s Perspective

Wuvable Oaf Paper Doll

The Feeling is Multiplied

Our Queer Little Village

The Best Places in Portland to Shop for... Everything Else

Comics Artists Jeff Lemire Goes Further North in Roughneck

It’s a Story About Canada and Hockey and Snow—and a Return to Form for the Essex County Author

Slow Your Roll, Iron Fist—We’re Talking Esoteric Comics With Ron Regé Jr.

Also Discussed: Wonder Woman’s Goddess Origins and the Holy Grail

Wednesday Comics

March 8

The Shirley Jackson Project is Like a Collection of Ghost Stories

Portland Comic Artists Share Their Passion for Shirley Jackson, Queen of Gloom

Jill Thompson, Jewel of the Comics Industry

With The True Amazon, She Gets Wonder Woman Right (Finally)

Chelsea Cain Leaves Twitter Following Sexist Harassment

The Local Author’s Experience Speaks to a Larger Problem of Online Abuse

Rolling Blackouts is an Ambitious Muddle

Sarah Glidden Explores Conflicts in the Middle East and Ethics in Comics Journalism

Here is Dame Darcy, Your Comics Queen

The World is Catching Up with Her—Just in Time for The Meat Cake Bible

Study Group Takes Comics Seriously

The Local Magazine Applies a Critical Lens to the Art Form

Growing Old with Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk’s Comic Book Sequel to the ’90s Rite of Passage

Get Your Geek on at GeekCraft Expo PDX

The New Craft Fair Features Local Makers of Nerdy Delights

Straight to Video (Tonfa!)

Seven Years of Tim Goodyear's Movie Zine

Local Champion Cartoonists on Best Practices in Beer Bottle Design

Plus, How to Design a Brewery!

The Drug-Fueled Insanity of Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam

More Fascinating, Repulsive Comics from Simon Hanselmann

Mockingbird Takes Off

Local Author Chelsea Cain Makes a Marvel Heroine Sing

A Drawn and Disorderly Legacy in The Complete Wimmen's Comix

Sorry, Franck Bondoux, Women Comics Artists Have Been Around for a While

Time Traveling with Daniel Clowes' Patience

Talking about His New Graphic Novel