Oregon Cartoons & Cartooning: Past, Present, Future
The following review by Peter Debruge of a documentary about Will Vinton (Laika Studios) appeared in Variety on August 4, 2022. We are reposting below. The Book of Genesis contains…
Read an excerpt from an “Oregonian” article published on March 19, 2023: Last weekend, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson and their team won the Oscar for best animated feature. “Guillermo…
UNDERGROUND USA was a one day public history/arts education event which focused on one chapter of Oregon print cartooning history. It took place on October 15, 2016 at the White…
Portland is a pop machine. The first American political cartoonist to achieve superstar status, Homer Davenport, made his professional debut in Portland. Mel Blanc, the most revered voice artist in…
Image: Screenshot taken from THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE When Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner won their Oscar in 1975, independent film making in Oregon seemed to be entering a…
“The Portland Sign” by Christopher Neugebauer is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. A project that never took place was a planned pop-up storefront to educate people about Oregon’s rich cartooning…
On Jan. 17, 2015, Mid Century Oregon Genius (a project by the Oregon Cartoon Institute) presented an evening of selected short films by the award winning independent filmmaker Homer Groening.…
The Third Annual Oregon Film History Conference took place on May 5, 2017. The conference was supported by Oregon Film, Oregon Film Museum, and Picture This Production Services & Stage.…
The Fourth Annual Oregon Film History Conference Oregon’s Minor Cinemas took place on May 4, 2018. The conference was supported by University of Oregon Libraries, Oregon Film, Oregon Film Museum,…
The Oregon Cartoon Project was founded in 2007 by Anne Richardson (1954-2020) and Dennis Nyback (1953-2022). After her return to Portland in 2006, Richardson dug into what would become her…