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Comics
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Queer Guide 2025
Jun 26
3:28 AM
Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History
A new collection of his work explores his artistry and activism.
Kjerstin Johnson
Queer Guide 2025
Jun 26
3:22 AM
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!
Sarah Shay Mirk
Comics
Jun 16
5:00 PM
Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History
A new collection of his work explores his artistry and activism.
Kjerstin Johnson
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Comics
Jun 19
10:00 AM
Queer Guide Comic: Tips for a COVID-Safer Pride!
Protect your ability to party—and protest—this Pride!
Hazel Newlevant
Comics
Nov 24
1:00 PM
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.
Ben Coleman
Comics
Aug 23
10:20 AM
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.
Ben Coleman
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LGBTQIA+
Jul 9
2:07 PM
Comic Book Interview: Captain America Is Gay Now
Matt Baume
Comics
Apr 2
2:00 PM
This Week's Comics: A Shadow Comes to Life, Monsters Fall in Love, and Pretty Flowers
Matt Baume
Comics
Feb 18
11:21 AM
This Week's New Comics:
Forever Home
,
My Life in Transition
,
Strange Academy
, and More!
Matt Baume
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Arts
Aug 1
4:00 AM
We Can’t Help But Root for The Drug Addict Go-Getters in Simon Hanselmann’s
Bad Gateway
Suzette Smith
Arts
Jun 20
4:00 AM
Meet Portland's New Comics Festival: Portland Indie Con
Suzette Smith
Arts
Oct 11
4:00 AM
Polyamorous Sci-Fi Graphic Novel
Open Earth
Feels Lost in Space
Andrew Jankowski
Megan Burbank
Aug 29
4:00 AM
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
Megan Burbank
Arts
Aug 15
4:00 AM
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
Suzette Smith
Arts
May 2
4:00 AM
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
Suzette Smith
Books
Feb 7
4:00 AM
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
Erik Henriksen
Arts
Jan 31
4:00 AM
Orange Thief
Makes the Case for Published Sketchbooks
The Unsettling, Imaginative Illustrations of Sophie Franz
Suzette Smith
Books/Magazines/Comics
Jan 3
4:00 AM
Short-Form Comics You Will Love
Things of Beauty from Kevin Budnick, Anne Pomel, and More
Suzette Smith
Books
Nov 8
4:00 AM
Spinning
Hits Full Rotation
Teen Graphic Memoir Author Tillie Walden Comes to Wordstock
Sarah Meyer
Books
Aug 23
4:00 AM
My Pretty Vampire
’s Cartoonish Violence
Katie Skelly’s Love Letter to ’70s Woman-Centric Vampire Cinema
Suzette Smith
Books/Magazines/Comics
Aug 9
4:00 AM
An Excerpt from
Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home
Nicole Georges on Her Lovable, Cranky Pup
Nicole Georges
Books
Jul 26
4:00 AM
Tongues
’ New God Flow
Portland’s Anders Nilsen Debuts a New Comic, With Greek Drama, God Drama, and Strange Wars
Suzette Smith
Arts
Jul 5
4:00 AM
Pop Gun War
’s Magic Explosion-ism
Farel Dalrymple’s Surrealist Comic Book is Action-Packed as All Hell
Suzette Smith
LGBTQIA+
Jun 14
4:20 PM
This Week in the
Mercury
: Queers Illustrated
Kathleen Marie
LGBTQIA+
Jun 14
4:00 AM
The Heroes Inside
The Internal Lives of Superheroines from a Transperson’s Perspective
Norah Horwitz
LGBTQIA+
Jun 14
4:00 AM
Wuvable Oaf Paper Doll
Ed Luce
LGBTQIA+
Jun 14
4:00 AM
The Feeling is Multiplied
Our Queer Little Village
Blue Crow
,
Marco Padilla
&
Matthew Rainwater
Thrift/Second Hand
May 30
4:00 AM
The Best Places in Portland to Shop for... Everything Else
Mercury Staff
Arts
Apr 12
4:00 AM
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
Ned Lannamann
Arts
Apr 5
4:00 AM
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
Suzette Smith
Comics
Mar 8
4:00 AM
Wednesday Comics
March 8
Arts
Feb 22
4:00 AM
The Shirley Jackson Project
is Like a Collection of Ghost Stories
Portland Comic Artists Share Their Passion for Shirley Jackson, Queen of Gloom
Suzette Smith
Books
Nov 23
4:00 AM
Jill Thompson, Jewel of the Comics Industry
With
The True Amazon
, She Gets Wonder Woman Right (Finally)
Suzette Smith
Arts
Nov 2
4:00 AM
Chelsea Cain Leaves Twitter Following Sexist Harassment
The Local Author’s Experience Speaks to a Larger Problem of Online Abuse
Megan Burbank
Arts
Nov 2
4:00 AM
Rolling Blackouts
is an Ambitious Muddle
Sarah Glidden Explores Conflicts in the Middle East and Ethics in Comics Journalism
Suzette Smith
Arts
Sep 21
4:00 AM
Here is Dame Darcy, Your Comics Queen
The World is Catching Up with Her—Just in Time for
The Meat Cake Bible
Suzette Smith
Books
Aug 17
4:00 AM
Study Group
Takes Comics Seriously
The Local Magazine Applies a Critical Lens to the Art Form
Suzette Smith
Books
Jul 20
4:00 AM
Growing Old with
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk’s Comic Book Sequel to the ’90s Rite of Passage
Ned Lannamann
Crafty
Jun 8
4:00 AM
Get Your Geek on at GeekCraft Expo PDX
The New Craft Fair Features Local Makers of Nerdy Delights
Megan Burbank
Books
May 4
4:00 AM
Straight to
Video
(
Tonfa
!)
Seven Years of Tim Goodyear's Movie Zine
Suzette Smith
Food and Drink
Apr 13
4:00 AM
Local Champion Cartoonists on Best Practices in Beer Bottle Design
Plus, How to Design a Brewery!
Ben Coleman
Books
Apr 6
4:00 AM
The Drug-Fueled Insanity of
Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam
More Fascinating, Repulsive Comics from Simon Hanselmann
Suzette Smith
Books
Mar 30
4:00 AM
Mockingbird
Takes Off
Local Author Chelsea Cain Makes a Marvel Heroine Sing
Wm. Steven Humphrey
Books
Mar 16
4:00 AM
A Drawn and Disorderly Legacy in
The Complete Wimmen's Comix
Sorry, Franck Bondoux, Women Comics Artists Have Been Around for a While
Kjerstin Johnson
Books
Mar 9
4:00 AM
Time Traveling with Daniel Clowes'
Patience
Talking about His New Graphic Novel
Courtney Ferguson
Comics
Jan 18
4:00 AM
The Mercury's 3rd Annual Spring Fashion Show