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The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration will host a first of its kind exhibit called “Queer as Comics” showcasing “strip cartoons, graphic novels and zines that have represented LGBTQIA+ perspectives since the 1940s.”The exhibit includes the artwork of Alison Bechdel, Kate Charlesworth, Jason Chuang, Burton Clarke, Howard Cruse, Leo Fox, Diana Green, Roberta Gregory, Rachael […]

Rupert Kinnard was a guest speaker during my freshman English course at Portland State University a decade ago. The legendary artist and former Willamette Week associate art director highlighted his life’s work, including Cathartic Comics. The four-panel black-and-white comic strip introduced the world to the Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé, the world’s first weekly […]