OCI and the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission (Archive)
Oregon film history contains figures of the hugest possible magnitude. Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, and king of a jaw droppingly huge merchandising empire, came in January to…
Sebastian Heiduschke
Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko
The Guardian called Victoria Lomasko “the brutally funny artist no gallery in Russia will touch,” The New York Transatlantic described her like this: “Victoria Lomasko is a fixture at Moscow’s…
Accessible Comics Design Competition (2022)
While not exclusively related to Oregon, we share this Call for Proposals, hoping that many Oregon cartoonists will contribute to this project. Call for Proposals: Accessible Comics Design Competition! Following…
Public Zoom conversation with Damian Duffy and John Jennings’ Parable of the Sower (May 20, 2022)
Join Comics Studies and the Portland Center for the Humanities at PSU for a conversation with John Jennings and Damian Duffy, co-collaborators on the coffee table book Black Comix Returns…
(Virtual) Exhibit The Art of the News: Comics Journalism (2021/22)
The following post is taken directly from the website https://jsma.uoregon.edu/ComicsJournalism The show is still available as virtual exhibit. The Art of the News: Comics Journalism opens at the Jordan Schnitzer…
Get to Know Vladimir Putin by Kane Lynch (2017)
Drawn by Kane Lynch in 2017, this comic with the title Get to Know Vladimir Putin originally appeared in The NiB. It is timely again after the invasion of Ukraine…
Comic Cave PDX
Established in 2015 in St. Johns, Comic Cave is now a bustling family-owned store in the Kenton neighborhood. 1924 N. Kilpatrick, Portland Oregon, 97217 Wed-Fri 11-6 Saturday 10:30-4 Sunday noon-4…
Screenings
Over the years, the Oregon Cartoon Institute organized a number of film screenings. Many of the films came from the collection of co-founder Dennis Nyback. In 2011, the Oregon Cartoon…
Oregon Midcentury Genius presents: Selected Short Films by Homer Groening (January 2015)
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.…
“Hall of Fame” – Top 10 Oregon Print Cartoonists
A big part of the Oregon Cartoon Institute’s work was research into significant cartoonists with an Oregon connection. Anne Richardson created this list containing a “Hall of Fame” of the…