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 available here.…
Cartoon history
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 and timeless…
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: Comics in…
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 Comics had…
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 volumes were…
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 by Argus…
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…
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…
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…