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Jonathan Hill in Conversation With Breena Bard

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Drawing on the experiences of his Vietnamese American family and his love of ’80s sci-fi shows, award-winning creator Jonathan Hill crafts a funny, insightful graphic novel about the immigrant experience and the perils of middle school. Threatened with diminishing resources, Booger Lizk’t and his family flee their lizard community deep below Earth’s crust to survive above among humans. The Lizk’t family of Elberon now passes as the Tomkins family of Eagle Valley. “Tommy Tomkins” wears a human face to school but can’t seem to fit in no matter how he looks. The basketball team becomes a pipe dream when bullies label him a bug eater, and only Dung Tran, an immigrant from Vietnam and fellow outsider, sees Tommy for who he is inside, which is…

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Little Comics Bookgroup

Ledding Library of Milwaukie 10660 SE 21st Avenue, Milwaukie, OR, United States

We'll read graphic novels for early readers. Pick up a grab & go bag at the beginning of each month to participate! Ages 5-7. October 2022 Tiny Tales: Shell Quest by Steph Waldo November 2022 Hello, Crabby! by Jonathan Fenske December 2022 Beak & Ally: Unlikely Friends by Norman Feuti January 2023 Owly: The Way Home by Andy Runton February 2023 Pea, Bee, & Jay: Stuck Together by Brian Smith March 2023 Shelby & Watts: Tidepool Trouble by Ashlyn Anstee April 2023 Arlo & Pips: King of the Birds by Elise Gravel Room Location: Children's Room

Free

Little Comics Bookgroup

Ledding Library of Milwaukie 10660 SE 21st Avenue, Milwaukie, OR, United States

We'll read graphic novels for early readers. Pick up a grab & go bag each month to participate! Ages 5-7. October 2022 Tiny Tales: Shell Quest by Steph Waldo November 2022 Hello, Crabby! by Jonathan Fenske December 2022 Beak & Ally: Unlikely Friends by Norman Feuti January 2023 Owly: The Way Home by Andy Runton February 2023 Pea, Bee, & Jay: Stuck Together by Brian Smith March 2023 Shelby & Watts: Tidepool Trouble by Ashlyn Anstee April 2023 Arlo & Pips: King of the Birds by Elise Gravel Room Children's Room

Free

Science Pub Portland: Comics & Women’s Liberation

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) 1945 SE Water Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Learn More & Get Tickets In 1977 a comic was launched with the tagline, “This female fights back!” We can’t disclose who the character is, but you would recognize her from her blue and red outfit and oversized fists. Indeed, this character punched her way past a cavalcade of villains, but did so while struggling not to gain weight and keeping her day job as a magazine editor. This character was identified as “This Woman, This Warrior” in the first issue of her solo series, and her story arc offers a complicated response to second-wave feminism in the mainstream media, particularly as she was written by male creators who, based on interviews and letter columns, seemed unfamiliar with key tenets of feminism and were more…

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Free – $5

A Conversation with Comics Creator Maia Kobabe

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

To join us for this lively event, please register here. On Monday, March 13, Portland State University hosts Will Eisner Week 2023, celebrating sequential art and freedom of expression in a no-holds-barred conversation with creator Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir), author and illustrator of Gender Queer, the US’s most banned book of 2022! The Zoom discussion will be moderated by Dr. Susan Kirtley, director of PSU’s Comics Studies program, in conjunction with the department of English, the department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, and the Center for Urban Studies. Winner of the comics industry’s Ignatz Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and the Stonewall Books Award, Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer author and illustrator from the Northern California Bay Area,…

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Archie Bongiovanni in Conversation With Sarah Shay Mirk

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, explores queerness in their shockingly frank and funny graphic novel, Mimosa (Abrams ComicArts – Surely). Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party, the crew decides to put on a new queer event called Grind — specifically for homos in their dirty thirties. Grind is a welcome distraction from their real problems: after a messy divorce, Chris adjusts to being a single parent while struggling to reconnect to their queer community. Elise…

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Submission Deadline: Old Pal Mag: Issue 7

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Old Pal is currently open for submissions until May 20, 2023! We publish poetry, fiction, criticism, excerpts, audio, mixed media, and various mediums of art. We encourage artists from all experience levels and communities to submit. Contributors are compensated $50 upon publication. We ask that submissions are limited as follows: Up to 10 pages of poetry Up to 15 pages of prose Up to 10 images or visual artworks Up to five minutes of audio or video Simultaneous submissions are welcome; we just ask that you notify us to withdraw works if accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published work; however, works previously posted to social media will still be considered. There is no submission fee or subscription required to submit. All rights revert…

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