Lady Starlight Eats Your Children

I could have picked worse clips, I probably could have picked better clips. Lady Starlight may be best remembered for spreading the Schenectady accent around the globe. For those that missed it, Brown Cuts Neighbors co-founder Lady Starlight is opening for Lady Gaga on this leg of the Monster...

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Zine Spelling Bee this Saturday, for serious.

Calling all word-heads, spelling specialists and zinesters! You’re invited to the PZS Zinester’s Spelling Bee at Mississippi Pizza Pub! Who: *The Portland Zine Symposium* What: *Zinester’s Spelling Bee* Where: *Mississippi Pizza Pub*, 3552 N Mississippi Ave Why: To support PZS...

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Movies at Floating World TOMORROW!

This Tuesday (August 3rd) at Floating World Comics we’ll be celebrating the IPRC comics program. Floating World and the IPRC will be showing Steel, Artists & Models and Hooked on Comix 2 (a short film). All comix related, really great and quite funny. The films should start at 6pm...

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Blaise Larmee has started Gaze Books

One of my favorite cartoonists at the moment has started a publishing company which will also be carrying work by other people and putting stuff on their website, including pages like the one above from Austin English’s sketchbook. Really highest recommendations...

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Nurse Nurse review!

This great review of Nurse Nurse points out exactly why you should be reading Katie Skelly’s wonderful series: http://www.bros-czap.com/kevinczap/2010/07/colonists-be-safe/ and here is Katie’s site: http://www.calicocomics.com/ http://www.etsy.com/shop/calicocomics

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Dark Rain by Mat Johnson and Simon Gane

The long awaited new Vertigo graphic novel Dark Rain by Mat Johnson (Incognegro) illustrated by Simon Gane has been announced for an August 24 release in bookstores and from Amazon and August 18th in Comic Book stores. Cover by Nessim Higson Dark Rain is a graphic novel thriller set in the days...

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You Don’t Get There From Here

I’ve spent most of my first month at Sparkplug scanning and creating pages for Carrie McNinch’s wonderful autobio comic/zine You Don’t Get There From Here. It hasn’t been easy; being prone to depression myself, Carrie’s work reminds me what a struggle it has been...

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Whirlwind Wonderland in Giant Robot!

Rina Ayuyang’s Whirlwind Wonderland got a great review in the new Giant Robot (#66). Here it is: Whirlwind Wonderland This compilation of work by Rina Ayuyang is a testament to the fact that honestand transparent storytelling about one’s own life can be as dramatic and grippingas anything...

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Brian Allen McCall at TCJ

This is a great blog post about a comic artist that has done some great and rarely seen work, Brian Allen McCall. A giant thank you to Marc Sobel for doing this piece. http://www.tcj.com/interviews/%EF%BB%BFnavigating-the-chaos-a-conversation-with-brian-allen-mccall/

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Bike-In Movie Night this Saturday!

  Bike-In Movie Night Bike-lovers, movie buffs, and zinesters! You’re invited to the PZS Bike-In Movie Fundraiser presented by the Stumptown Underground and WTFBikes… Who: The Portland Zine Symposium, Stumptown Underground and WTFBikes What: Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure...

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