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Comics & Cartoons @Old Town Coffee

September 28, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Free
View Venue Website, 118 NW Couch St, Portland, OR 97209 + Google Map

Come one come all the to the GREATEST COMIC & CARTOON SPECTACU- okay well maybe not that epic but pretty epic. But seriously come down to Floyd’s Old Town and join three of the coolest cartooning talents around as they spend the afternoon waxing all things comics and sequential. They’ll have their books and swag on hand to buy and there will be great coffee and snacks and foods.

ALSO, COSPLAY is encouraged! So come on down as your favorite character and let’s have a blast!

Here’s the bios on our guests-

Alex Delaney is a Portland, OR based illustrator and cartoonist. He is the creator of The Derelict, Other Side of Town, Swan Song & The Geese of Milwaukie. He is the co-creator of Vengeance is for the Living (forthcoming with Keenan Marshall Keller, co-creator of The Humans), Rapt in Fear (with Scott Roller), and Nowhere Bound (with Jeff Rybicki). Delaney is frequently seen in the Portland, OR quarterly comics newspaper, Vision Quest. He has contributed to Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever by Tom Neely, Slasher by Charles Forsman, Force Majeure & Scumbag for Hire by Keenan Marshall Keller, and Insect Bath; a horror anthology curated by Jason T. Miles. To see progress and process pics of what he is currently working on, please visit @alexdelaneyart on Instagram or Twitter

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Matt Blairstone is a comics creator and genre fiction writer. He is solely to blame for the absurdist fantasy comics series MAD DOCTORS; its latest volume, MONDO COSMICO: REGRET NOTHING, is on sale now.

With artist Kristofor Harris, he is co-creator and writer of the upcoming occult Body Horror series CRAZY EIGHTS.

Matt lives in Portland, Oregon with wife (and fellow artist) Kate Blairstone, a Great and Terrible two-year-old son, a dog, two cats and a cluster of yipping Shoggoths.

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Cee Raymond is an outlaw writer, cartoonist and comic creator who has a difficult time doing anything conventional. Found in the wreckage of a UFO somewhere outside of San Antonio, Texas. Cee has spent most of his days trying to draw weird stuff for a living and currently doing it in Portland, Oregon. He also loves grocery store sushi and actively evades televised marketing. He is currently smoking a bowl of something Flash Gordon-sounding and pondering the theoretics of the Flintstones.

His work include THE WENDELL, CRIME & SPACE, an anthology of short comics called OMINOUS SOFA and artist and co-writer on Travis Tomblin’s Canada Jack! He’s worked as shadow artist on syndicated cartoon strips STRANGE BREW and ZACK HILL by John Deering and has wrote rants and essays for several free press papers across the United States.

He can name the entire cast of Debbie Does Dallas and hates Kevin Sorbo,

You can find his works at Planet Cee

Venue

Floyd’s Old Town Coffee and Tea
118 NW Couch St
Portland, OR 97209
+ Google Map
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Organizer

Cee Raymond, Alex Delaney, Matt Blairstone, Stephen Zimmerman