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Yo Portland, Have Some Free Workshops: Creative Motivation & Kick-Ass Kickstarters
Lucy is a natural public speaker and these two lectures sound seriously awesome. I’m going to attempt to make it to the Kickstarter one and if you live in the Portland area, you should really come check these out.Yessir, Portland people. Next week you have two opportunities to come talk with me about creative stuff. These puppies are open to the public and will involve SNACKS. Do I have your attention yet? Good!
First up is Freelance Badassery 101: Maintaining Enthusiasm in the Face of the Unknown (Monday, January 21st, 5pm-7pm). This is a long and fancy-sounding name for a very simple class. The goal is to help you figure out what you love doing, then empower you to do it more and do it better. It’s a class for anyone wishing to light a creative fire under their ass. It’s gonna have some nitty-gritty info about contracts and taxes and invoices and other business things that might be useful to a freelancer, but what comes first is the Work. And that’s what we’re going to tackle head-on. BYO creative self-doubt demons. They’ll be begging for mercy by the time we’re done. Facebook event with directions and other info is here!
The second workshop is Kickstarter Bootcamp: Harnessing the Herd to Make Your Creative Dreams Come True (Wednesday, January 23rd, 5pm-7pm). This will be a hands-on, practical info workshop for those wishing to fund their creative endeavors. The first hour will cover Kickstarter basics, then we’ll critique specific projects. If you have something brewing that you’d like feedback or advice on, bring it in! I’ll be spilling all the dark secrets I learned while riding out the True Believer Kickstarter (730% funded?! How is that even POSSIBLE?!) and incorporating lessons from other successful projects in the Portland area. Facebook event with directions and other info is here!
Both workshops will take place in the Gray Campus Center at Reed College (3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.). The GCC sits in the central Quad and also houses the College’s dining hall. Parking is available in the North Lot (enter on SE Steele and SE 33rd) or the East Lot (enter on SE Woodstock and SE 36th). The workshops will be held in the Campus Center conference rooms, GCC B, GCC C, and GCC D. Most anyone should be able to steer you towards them, if campus maps prove unhelpful.
Hope to see you there!
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January 18, Day 18 of 365
Waiting for my train at Portland Union Station
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Oh gosh, TOMORROW I’ll be doing a book signing at Cosmic Monkey Comics!
Cosmic Monkey Comics Signing
December 22, 12 – 2pm
Cosmic Monkey Comics
5335 Northeast Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97213Hope to see you there!
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Got some Bucko-related news for you!
TOMORROW
Thursday, October 4th, 7:30pm
Bucko’s BOOK RELEASE party will be hap-hap-HAPPENING at Powell’s on Hawthorne! Parker and I will be doing a reading and shooting the shit. Guaranteed to be a swell time.
Powell’s, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, ORDAY AFTER TOMORROW
Friday, October 5th, 6-9pm
The magnitude of celebrating Bucko in book form cannot be contained to one store on one day! So Parker and I are moving the party over to Bridge City Comics where we will be living it up with more readings and witty banter for you, our dear, beloved readers.
Bridge City Comics, 3725 N. Mississippi Ave., Portland, OR.AND THAT’S NOT ALL
Today the digital download of Bucko is available from our publisher Dark Horse Comics! Why buy this when the comic is already online for free? Because Parker and I created a SHIT TON of brand new comics and content just for the book– all of which is included in this digital download. Learn the origin story of the Jugalette! Read essays from Parker between each chapter about why he wrote the things he did! Peek into our behind-the-scenes process of creating a finished comic page! Check out some of the amazing fan art we received from readers! Witness my personal stash of reference photos of my friends and myself that I used to draw poses! AND MORE. Including the world’s most gut-punching introduction ever written, by our friend and studiomate Steve Lieber.MORE REVIEWS
Parker and I have been really delighted to be receiving so many positive reviews for Bucko! Here’s a handful:
Talking Comics: Bucko Review
Go Suck a Comic: Bucko Hard Cover
Comics Bulletin: That’s That Shit: Week of 9/12/2012
Media Decay: Book Review: Bucko
Paste Magazine: Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up 9/19/12Thanks for all the kind words, folks <:) Hope to see some’a you at our book signings!
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Trekker and I will be out in full force at this weekend’s first Rose City Comic-Con! Find us at Table A-37. Sketches, prints, swag of every stripe. I’m just opening my sketch list, so contact me through my website to keep my busy at the event. The regional comics community is showing up big to help launch this new show. Can’t wait!
I’m also going to be at Rose City Comic-Con! Just Saturday, September 8th, from 10am-3pm, not the entire time. My mother-in-law is visiting from England! I gotta get as much hang out time with her as I can before she’s back off across the ocean. She’s the best, I’m such a fan of her.
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Hey guys! This Thursday I am honored to be doing a short reading of my work at Floating World Comics for the No Straight Lines book release party!
WHEN: 6-8pm, Thursday, August 9th
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St., Portland, Oregon 97209
WHO: Justin Hall, Robert Triptow, Vaughn Frick, and Erika Moen
FACEBOOK RSVP: Right here!What is Fantagraphics’ No Straight Lines anthology?
Queer cartooning has been one of the most vibrant artistic and countercultural movements of the past 40 years, tackling complex issues of identity and changing social mores with intelligence, humor, and an irreverent imagination. LGBTQ comics have often existed in a parallel universe to the rest of the comics world, and this anthology seeks to address that by shining a well-deserved spotlight on some of the best of this extraordinary body of work.
Hope to see some’a you there!
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T-o-o-o-night!
The Deets:
-WHAT: Gallery Sesso‘s First Thursday Erotic Art Tastings featuring Menage a Trois: Playful, Sexy and Erotic Art by 3 Talented Women in Comics
-WHO: Keri Grassl, Rebecca Woods, and Erika Moen
-WHEN: Thursday, August 2nd, from 6-8pm
-WHERE: 824 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR
-$$$: FREE OF CHARGE! (Normally the door price is quite pricey) -
Ever since I learned that Ron Jeremy’s Club Sesso, Portland’s premier swingers nightclub, has a fully developed erotic art gallery contained within its walls, it’s been one of my secret goals to have my work shown there.
My friends, DREAMS DO COME TRUE.
Gallery Sesso actually reached out to me after seeing my work at a local comic convention and invited me to participate in an upcoming show. HOLY COW. So now I am completely stoked to invite you all to join me this Thursday at Ron Jeremy’s Club Sesso for an evening of art and, y’know, probably some other stuff going on in the background. Ahem.
The Deets:
-WHAT: Gallery Sesso‘s First Thursday Erotic Art Tastings featuring Menage a Trois: Playful, Sexy and Erotic Art by 3 Talented Women in Comics
-WHO: Keri Grassl, Rebecca Woods, and Erika Moen
-WHEN: Thursday, August 2nd, from 6-8pm
-WHERE: 824 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR
-$$$: FREE OF CHARGE! (Normally the door price is quite pricey)I will be exhibiting seven of my most erotic artworks!
Ooooooobviously Lucy Knisley‘s and my Sexy Times poster will be there, as well as…
…Six of my own most erotic prints! These are one-of-a-kind, giant (15″ x 19″!!), Giclée prints with hand painted gold and silver accents. You can buy these original prints here and have them in your own home after the show comes down October 1st!
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My favorite local newspaper, The Portland Mercury, totally fulfilled one of the goals I’ve had since moving here by hiring me to draw an illustration for them!
It’s for the article Exposed by the Police Union, written by Denis Theriault. The concept presented to me was “Sam Adams and Mike Reese being pantsed by Daryl Turner.” Let it never be said that I can not follow directions.
Aaaaaand in the very same issue, my studiomate Dylan Meconis and I were interviewed by Alison Hallett to share some of our hard-won tips on being married for the article From One Queer to Another– Dylan also provided that gorgeous illustration!
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(Photo by Katie Lane)
Portlanders! If you support the Multnomah County Library then please, please vote YES on 26-125 on the Official Primary Nominating Ballot, page 2.If you are not sure what this is about, here is more information on this matter.
But basically: the library has a messed up funding system and it is at risk of losing a significant chunk of it, causing many librarians to lose their jobs and reduce the hours of operation for the libraries.
Vote YES on 26-125 to help keep the libraries open and librarians from being laid off.
Vote YES on 26-125
Drop off your ballot at Multnomah County Library
Drop-off deadline: Tuesday, May 15, 8 p.m.All Multnomah County libraries will serve as ballot drop-off sites during regular library hours, from April 27 through Election Day, May 15.