Over the past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the inaugural event for Northwest Comic Fest. It was a festival that’s been a long time coming, from as far back as the miniature convention the director threw for local artists and vendors in the area. Bringing in a decent […]
A Tour of Portland’s Comic Book Scene
Portland has quickly become known for a number of things over the past ten years. Being weird, amazing craft brew, and Voodoo donuts are only a small sampling of what Portland, Oregon has to offer both locals and tourists alike. It has also become a bustling comic book scene, with […]
Cherry City Comic Con: Interviewing Brett Weldele about Life as an Artist
Cherry City Comic Con afforded me the great opportunity to sit down and talk a bit with local artist, Brett Weldele. Though he may have ditched Salem for its bigger, more interesting brother, Portland, he still makes it down to delight con goers with his fantastic distressed ink works. Even […]
Cherry City Comic Con: The Little Con that Could Does it Again
It can be hard for small conventions to get off the ground, even in this season where conventions are king. Last year I dubbed Cherry City Comic Con “the little con that could” due to the rather suddenness of its appearance and surprising success. I’ve said it before and I’ll […]
Cherry City Comic Con: Highlight Reactions
Cherry City Comic Con has come to a close. I stayed right up until five o’clock when the announcement went out to finish up shopping and leave the building. With some applause and a fantastic exit by a featured car from the Fast and Furious franchise, it was a wonderful end […]
Cherry City Comic Con: Weekend Highlights
The second annual Cherry City Comic Con in Salem, OR is underway today. If you’re in the area, I definitely encourage you to check it out. Coined “the little con that could” in my write-up of it last year, it has had a rocky path leading up to the second […]
NW Comic Fest Saves the Day with a Mini-Convention
Salem, Oregon is kind of a weird place. It is the capitol, but is often overshadowed by its older brother Portland. While Portland is supposedly a weird place, I’d put in for Salem being pretty stiff competition. Yet amongst the weirdness in my little hometown there’s a lot of heart, […]
Rose City Comic Con: The Best of PDX Comics
I left Oregon in 2011 to go to school down in Southern California. In that time, somehow Portland became a hotspot for comic books. The moment I found myself living where I thought all of the hustle and bustle would be, conventions began to pop up in my home state. […]
Rose City Comic Con 2014: An Interview with Pariah’s Brett Weldele
At Rose City Comic Con in Portland, I got a chance to sit down with a comic book artist who is actually from my hometown! Brett Weldele is known for quite a few of his projects, most notably Surrogates which was turned into a movie starring Bruce Willis. Since we’d […]
Pariah Vol 1: Step into the Future
Pariah Volume 1 Author: Philip Gelatt (art by Brett Weldele, produced by Aron Warner) Release Date: January 14th, 2014 Publisher: Darkhorse Source: Darkhorse Press Site Genre(s): Science Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Review Spoilers: Low GoodReads | Amazon Outcast because of your genetics, what would you do when people with your particular genetic code were suddenly public enemy number one? Pariah […]
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