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Survey Course Oregon Animation History

In May 2013, Anne Richardson taught a survey course entitled Oregon Animation History at the Hollywood Theatre. The Oregon Cartoon Project has archived the original syllabus for future…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

Sketchbook in Parks Zines