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Stumptown Comics Fest
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10-Year Itch
Checking in with the Stumptown Comics Fest
A handy guide to the Stumptown Comics Fest, and some unsolicited advice for the festival.
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Stumptown’s Comics Crash Course
Paging through the 9th Annual Stumptown Comics Fest
The Stumptown Comics Fest provides an annual crash course in funnybooks.
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Capeless Crusaders
Stumptown’s Indie Agenda
Stumptown Comic Fest changes venues, but stays true to its roots.
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I, Stumptown
First Thursday, Stumptown Comics Fest Style
First Thursday comics art events include a Mike Allred release party, and more.
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Natalie Phillips Goes it Alone
Illustrator Natalie Phillips Opens a Solo Show at Breeze Block
“My mom is the only person who noticed that the baby is smoking fetuses out of a placenta pipe,” says Natalie Phillips of her busy illustration “Red Sky.” Using gouache and acrylic paint on Bristol board, Phillips takes the viewer back to an ’80s sci-fi comic book aesthetic. Drifting through a white-dots-on-black version of outer […]
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I’m Staying Home: Mercury Video Picks
Stumptown Cinema
Now’s the time to revisit comic book flicks of the non-spandex sort.
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Comics For the People
It’s the Perfect Month to Discover the Comics You’ve Been Missing
As if there weren’t enough reasons to love living in this city (good beer, plentiful strip clubs, committed local farmers who will hopefully sustain the rest of us when the economy collapses), we are now officially a Comics Mecca™. Earlier this month, Mayor Tom Potter dubbed April “Portland Comics Month,” with a press release that […]
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Welcome to Stumptown!
The Stumptown Comics Fest: Portland’s (and the World’s!) Best Indie Comic Book Convention
By Dylan Meconis And Bill Mudron, With Thanks To Erika Moen