Portland River Loop Comic

Made for CityLab's "Your Maps of Life Under Lockdown." How has your relationship with your neighborhood changed? Well, I can intimately describe the minutiae of this four-mile river loop.

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Here are a bunch of articles I wrote:

Stef Chura's New Record Messes - A California Surf-Rock Update on ’90s Feminist Grunge

The IPRC Needs A New Location—and A New Executive Director

Movie Review Your Name: This Is All You Should Read Before You Go See Your Name

Scenes From The Hollywood Transit Memorial

Men Without Women’s Dick Lit - Men’s Insecurities Are Exposed in Murakami’s Latest

Comics Artist, Cyclist, Activist - Eleanor Davis Took a Bike Ride That Awakened Her to Injustice

The Body Horror of Illness, Poverty, and Time - I Should Have Listened to Anne Elizabeth Moore

Wonder Woman Is a Thrilling Start - Now Bring on the Sequels

Fear Will Never Conquer Us - Scenes from This Weekend’s Hollywood Transit Vigil for Three Heroes Who Stood Against Hate

Pitch, Please! - Carolyn Main Kickstarts Her Hilarious Movie Pitch Card Game

Let's All Go to the Lobby! -  Which Portland Movie Theater Has the Best Snacks?

Let's Discuss Twin Peaks - Dougie Jones and the Enduring Power of Toxic Masculinity
Pop Gun War’s Magic Explosion-ism - Farel Dalrymple’s Surrealist Comic Book is Action-Packed as All Hell

Scorpiono Rising - Portland’s Very Own Broad City

Valerian Is the Fifth Element Follow-Up You've Been Waiting For - Luc Besson’s Latest Is a Surreal Delight

Nicole Georges’ Dog Star - Fetch Is For Anyone Who’s Ever Really Loved A Dog

Tongues’ New God Flow - Portland’s Anders Nilsen Debuts a New Comic, With Greek Drama, God Drama, and Strange Wars

Stumptown Improv 2017:

The Stumptown Improv Fest’s Triumphant Return

Stumptown Improv Festival, Day 2: Curious Comedy, the Right Now, and HVAC Snakes!

Stumptown Improv Festival, Day 3: Big Bang, Border Disputes, and Introducing the Imports

When Cats ATTACK! - They Are Probably Just Scared, Says Horror Cartoonist and Attack Survivor Julia Gfrörer

Treat Yourself with Girls Gone Mild - Presenting The Siren’s New Brunch Comedy Show

In This Corner of the World Is a Cute Movie About Hiroshima - The Latest Animated Film from Sunao Katabuchi

My Pretty Vampire’s Cartoonish Violence - Katie Skelly’s Love Letter to ’70s Woman-Centric Vampire Cinema

Carmen Maria Machado’s Writing Lit Me on Fire - Couple Fights, Fucking, and SVU in Her Body and Other Parties

The Hip-Hop Fairy Tale of Patti Cake$ - The Bling Was in Her Heart All Along!

Staying Mild with Tops - The Québécois Band Talks Positive Breakups and Perfect Pop Songs

In Sleeping Beauties, It’s Ladies’ Night! - Here Comes Stephen King and Owen King’s Father-Son Magical Feminist

The IPRC’s Narrow Escape - How the Publishing Organization Faced Portland’s Rental Crisis—and Survived

TBA 2017: They, Themself, and Schmerm - A Delightful, Humorous Show About Abuse and Gender Transition

TBA 2017: EMA - EMA Delivers An Unfuckwithable Rock Set

Don’t Get Caught - Artists Rep’s New Play Has a Super Dumb Secret

Halloween Theater! Spooky! Scary! - Nesting: Vacancy Makes For a Frightening Binge-Watch

Hello, Christopher Sobbin’ - Goodbye Christopher Robin Is Stylish and Sad

Gentrification, Evil Pugs, and More at the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival - The Well-Curated Fest Enters Its 44th Year

We Saw Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy. You Aren’t Missing Much - A Review of Louis C.K.’s New, Unreleased Movie

Tori Amos Is Still Banging on Her Piano - With Native Invader, the Singer/Songwriter Interweaves Politics and Mythology

Live Review - Tori Amos at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Wed Nov 22

Bloody Beautiful - The Guts, Gore, and Ill-Advised Surgeries at the PDXtreme Fest

John Mulaney: Just a Humble Yarn Boy - Long-Form Stand-Up Is What the "Kid Gorgeous" Comedian Does Best

The Mercury's Favorite Movies of 2017: Blade Runner 2049

Short-Form Comics You Will Love - Things of Beauty from Kevin Budnick, Anne Pomel, and More

My Life as a Zucchini Review: FINALLY, a Stop-Motion Animated Movie About Orphans and Sex Jokes!

Colin Winnette’s Gripping Ghost Story of Decaying Civilization - The Job of the Wasp Tackles Orphan Lit, Gothic Mystery, and the Lies We Tell Ourselves

Maze Runner: The Death Cure Review: So Long, Murder-Teens! - It’s the Last Time We’ll See These Sweet, Murdering Teens Alive

Orange Thief Makes the Case for Published Sketchbooks - The Unsettling, Imaginative Illustrations of Sophie Franz

Who Likes Sad Shorts? - 2017’s Oscar-Nominated Short Films Will Break Your Heart 

Fresh Art at Grapefruits - It’s an Exhibition Space Where Anything Can Happen

Spring Comes Early to Director Park - Portland Tropical Gardens’ Artsy Cure for Winter

Hold Me Closer Shiny Oprah - A Wrinkle in Time Review: Ava DuVernay Gives the YA Classic a Much-Needed Update

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Comic interview: Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts on Monsters, Vietnam, and Kong: Skull Island

Millennial Tales of Terror: Smooth Exorcist

How to Trick Someone into Letting You Live with Them - Appear to Be a Good Housemate with These Six Simple Secrets

Study Group Mag - The Local Magazine Applies a Critical Lens to the Art Form

One Sad Dad - Unemployment, Fatherhood, and The Measure of a Man

Martha Grover - The End of My Career Author Is the Voice of Portland Right Now

Sex, Politics, and Teletubbies - The Portland Queer Film Fest

Comics, Here Is Your Queen - Dame Darcy's The Meat Cake Bible

Looking for Tiger Lily - Anthony Hudson Deconstructs Native American Identity Assimilation with PowerPoint

Lo-Fi Riches - North Portland Unknown Film Fest

The Ambition of Rolling Blackouts - Sarah Glidden Explores Conflicts in the Middle East and Ethics in Comics Journalism

The Magical Whitewash of Doctor Strange - The Cure for Racism? Sorcery!

David Sedaris - In Defense of David Sedaris

Fred Thomas Still Rents  - His New Video for “Voiceover”

Eagle Huntress - The Very First Eagle Huntress!(Sort Of) (Not Really)

Jill Thompson, Jewel of the Comics Industry - With The True Amazon, She Gets Wonder Woman Right (Finally)

The Siren Theater Gets Its First Artist in Residence - North Coast’s Rachel Rosenthal is Here to Teach Hip-Hop Improv

Our Revolution - Keep the Fires Berning in 2017

Zachary Auburn is No Longer Anonymous -The How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety Author Was in Our Hearts All Along

Drugs, Cults, and Space Suits - The Short Films—and Dark Dreams—of Vu Pham

Shocked, I Am Shocked! - In Substance Peter Hook Reveals New Order Did Lots of Drugs and Sex

Emodóvar - Pedro Almodóvar Riffs on Alice Munro With Julieta

The Space Between Us - In Which Gary Oldman Watches Teens Make Out

Fred Thomas’ Changer - The Songwriter/Producer’s Latest Centers on Immersive Synth Instrumentals

The Lure - Spooky scary, monsters becoming girls, Polish woman director’s startling debut

The Shirley Jackson Project - Portland Comic Artists Share Their Passion for Shirley Jackson, Queen of Gloom

Breaking the Niche - POW Fest 2017: More Inclusive, More Interesting

My Brother, My Brother and TV - The McElroy Brother Fine Family of Podcasts Expands to Internet TV

CHIPS - Good Time Highway Patrol Hedonism Dunked in Dax Shepard’s Signature Style

After the Storm - Explores a Family of Emotional Packrats

Slow Your Roll, Iron Fist - We’re Talking Esoteric Comics With Ron Regé Jr.

The Book of Joan - Lidia Yuknavitch’s Sci-Fi Novel Misses the Mark, and We All Go Flying into the Void

Talking with Dash Shaw - About My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea

Illustrated Guide to Growing Your Armpit Hair

From the Portland Mercury's Madonna Issue

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Here are some articles I wrote in December and January:

Building a Vocabulary - I interviewed performance artist/dancer Allie Hankins about her involvement with the 2015 community project Physical Education.

SoCal Gothic - I reviewed Miranda July's wonderful new book about fighting and ejaculation, The First Bad Man.

Pixie Sticking Points - I interviewed Scott McCloud about his new fiction comic The Sculptor.

I also wrote some film shorts. I like reading film shorts(2) so I'll include them here.

Grapefruits

Preparing for a presentation on grapefruits. i made a little imagery for it. Grapefruits will fuck you up.

Design School Imposter

Tiny Robots in the Wine

I'm working on a candy wrapper for school and I decided to make a robot design on the inside of the wrapper as a deliverable. After the wrapper completes its candy preserving duty, it can be re-purposed into a little paper robot to play with, collect and/or arrange with other robots in sexually suggestive positions.

I've been excited about patterns lately — like the St. Dalfour tea pattern after which the surrounding robot pattern was modeled. It's isn't an exact rip off but I did want to embrace the organic, non-patterned pattern feel to it.

Non-pattern. Pattern. Non-pattern. Pattern. Non-pattern. Pattern. Non-pattern. Pattern. Non-pattern.

They Might Be Giants LP Project

A recent class project: design an LP cover of our choice. I chose They Might Be Giants popular album Flood because I wanted to create lots of silly symbols. This involved listening to the album again and making lists like, "armchair, casket, bag of groceries, head in a basket." 

 The outside sleeve is durable mylar with vectored drawings. The inside record sleeve is gouache paint on sturdy white paper.

Ampersands In Space

Big ups and thanks to Erik Marinovich of Friends of Type for presenting a lettering workshop at the Portland State University Graphic Design department-- an ampersand club of sorts. Click through to see everyone's ampersand. Mine is above.

Prince With Salad

My submission to the collection I'm Not Afraid To Love, available at Gridlords tonight February 23rd, at The Waypost 8pm.

Someone Keeps Moving My Chair

Write Down Everything You Know About Shakespeare

Elections: and/or the overt shifting of the earth

Super Pail

Nurse Nurse - Review Comic

Review of Nurse Nurse by Katie Skelly. Long Live Katie Skelly!
Made for Comics Workbook

The Return - sleeping with giant cats

Here's Salen, sleeping in a pile with some other humans and a giant cat god. She's looking at a crystal that fell out of her mouth.

The Return - the kids

I've been working on this longer piece called The Return.
This orange-haired guy has a horn coming out of his head. Does it figure into the plot? Not at all. Shhhhhhhhh just accept it.

BAD GIRLS! (Wayward Girls Review)

I made this comic about Michiel Budel's Wayward Girls for Comics Workbook. A word for Wayward Girls' specific flavor of humor is on the tip of my tongue but my head is stuck so far up the butt of the Italian Renaissance that daren't tip my tongue anywhere but inside my own mouth. Gross imagery, Suzette.

Steinberg Exhibit at YU

I went and saw the Saul Steinberg exhibit at Yale Union. It was so easy. Exhibition hours are Thurs-Sat 12-8pm. There's a suggested $5 donation and a really boss accompanying pamphlet.

I told Sarah about my theory that people have always felt obsessed with cats but have only recently been able to share their feelings with one another on a truly grand scale (the internet). Sarah wondered if the increased access to cute cat photos has had any noticeable effect on cat show attendance numbers.

This one was my favorite - County Noises

Honorable mention for favorite - Odd Couples

The exhibit ends August 10th. I highly recommend it. It was square in the butt of my interests but seems pretty translatable to persons interested in New Yorker cartoons, 2-D art, page layout design, print publication illustrations, American history and/or an artist's changing body of work over time.