Portland Pop in Three Centuries
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…
Education
Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon
Named a Nonfiction Book Awards Gold Winner by the Nonfiction Authors AssociationGold Winner of the 2022 eLit Book Award for Popular CultureWinner of a National Indie Excellence Award in the…
Bodies and Boundaries in Graphic Fiction: Reading Female and Nonbinary Characters
This book by Jessica Baldanzi examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the United States—Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden—whose work has…
Mid Century Oregon Genius
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…
Hillbillies in Hollywood
Oregon Cartoon Institute co-founder Dennis Nyback presented this special program at various movie theaters across Oregon.
The 2015 Oregon Cartoon Institute Pop-Up Storefront
“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…
Maia Kobabe in Conversation
On 21 July 2022, Kathleen Breitenbach interviewed Maia Kobabe. A transcript of the interview is available on the Comics DC blog.
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. Practitioners in…
Pop up event: Sketchbook in Parks Bike Ride (June 2022)
As part of Portland’s Pedalpalooza Bike Summer festival, OCP artist-in-residence Sarah Mirk partnered with cartoonist Kane Lynch to host this drawing-in-parks bike ride. Starting at Irving Park, the family friendly…