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Visit us in booth #1043 at the 10th Rose City Comic Con 2022

Instead of a long-winded introduction, see the poster below, watch a trailer, and take a look at this year’s guest list. Visit the Oregon Cartoon Project Booth #1043…

The Art of the News

At a time of eroded public faith in traditional news media, comics journalism has emerged as a powerful antidote to the dissemination of inaccurate information and fake news….

Maus Now: Selected Writing

Forthcoming this November is a selection of responses to Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s work, Maus Now gathers together many of contemporary culture’s…

Oregon Film History Conference 2016

The Second Annual Film History Conference (also called “Film Invitational”) took place on May 13, 2016. As venue, the OCI rented The Little Church. A program draft is…

Virtual event (June 14): Jason Reynolds discusses the re-release of Penguin Classics Marvel Collection with series editor, Ben Saunders (University of Oregon)

June 14th, 6:00 pm. Tickets on Eventbrite. The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative…

Virtual: 18th Annual GCO Comics Conference “Exploring the In-Betweens: Comics in Flux”

Please join the University of Florida’s Graduate Comics Organization on May 20th-22nd for a free and open to the public comics and graphic novels conference: “Exploring the In-Betweens:…

First Union of Comic Book Workers comes from…. Oregon!

In January 2022, a historic first took place, when the workers of Image Comics voted 7-2 in favor of unionizing with the Communications Workers of America. Previously, Image…

Orygone Series and the Oregon Ungreeting Cards

Back in the late 70s and early 80s, James Cloutier created a series of cartoon paperbacks that poked fun at Oregon. Starring a person called Hugh Wetshoe, four…

Rapid City, SD, censors and destroys graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

While not directly related to Oregon cartooning, this disconcerting news could easily be about one of the many cartoons, comics and graphic novels from our state. As reported…

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…