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Stumptown Comics Fest
Stumptown Comics Fest was a comic book convention, held annually in Portland, Oregon from 2004 to 2013. In the model of the Alternative Press Expo and the Small Press Expo, Stumptown was a forum for artists, writers and publishers of comic art in its various forms to expose the public to comics not typically accessible through normal commercial channels. History The Stumptown Comics Fest originated in early 2004 with a small group of Portland-area cartoonists (led by Indigo Kelleigh)Hallett, Alison"10-Year Itch: Checking in with the Stumptown Comics Fest,"''Portland Mercury'' (Apr. 24, 2013). who yearned for a convention that focused on the art of comics instead of the business of comics. In a space of four months they were able to put on the first comics fest on June 6, 2004, at the Old Church, a non-profit organization whose goal was to preserve an old church. The first show featured 22 exhibitor tables, and attracted 150 attendees. In 2005 the show moved to Portland State U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Book Convention
A comic book convention or comic con is a fan convention emphasizing comic books and comic book culture, in which comic book Fan (person), fans gather to meet creators, experts, and each other. Commonly, comic conventions are multi-day events hosted at convention centers, hotels, or college campuses. They feature a wide variety of activities and panels, with a larger number of attendees participating with cosplay than for most other types of fan conventions. Comic book conventions are also used as a method by which publishers, distributors, and retailers represent their comic-related releases. Comic book conventions may be considered derivatives of science-fiction conventions, which began during the late 1930s. Comic-cons were traditionally organized by fans on a not-for-profit basis,Siegel, Howard P. "Made in America," ''BEM (magazine), BEM'' #16 (Dec. 1977): "These early conventions were run by purists for panelologists, and not meant to be commercially overbearing or expensiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Thompson
Craig Matthew Thompson (born September 21, 1975) is an American graphic novelist best known for his books ''Good-bye, Chunky Rice'' (1999), ''Blankets (graphic novel), Blankets'' (2003), ''Carnet de Voyage'' (2004), ''Habibi (graphic novel), Habibi'' (2011), ''Space Dumplins'' (2015), and ''Ginseng Roots'' (2025). Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album ''Friend and Foe'' received a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package, Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package. Early life Craig Thompson was born in Traverse City, Michigan in 1975. He, his younger brother Phil and his sister grew up in rural Marathon, Wisconsin, in a fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist Christian family. His father was a plumber, and his mother alternated between working as a stay-at-home mom and a visiting-nurse assistant for the disabled. Media such as films and television shows were screened or altogeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bagge
Peter Bagge (pronounced , as in ''bag''; born December 11, 1957) is an American cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics ''Neat Stuff'' and ''Hate (comics), Hate''. His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of American middle class, middle-class American youth. He won two Harvey Awards in 1991, one for best cartoonist and one for his work on ''Hate''. In recent decades Bagge has done more fact-based comics, everything from biographies to history to comics journalism. Publishers of Bagge's articles, illustrations, and comics include suck.com, ''MAD Magazine'', toonlet, ''Discover (magazine), Discover'', and the ''Weekly World News'', with the comic strip ''Bat Boy (character), Adventures of Batboy''. He has expressed his Libertarianism, libertarian views in features for ''Reason (magazine), Reason''. Early life Peter Bagge was born in Peekskill, New York, and grew up in the New York City suburbs. Bagge's father wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Samnee
Chris Samnee is an American comic book artist. He received the 2011 Harvey Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his work on the '' Thor: The Mighty Avenger'', and won a 2013 Eisner Award for Best Penciller/Inker for his work on '' The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom'' and '' Daredevil''. He was also nominated for the 2006 Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award. In 2020 he co-created the Image Comics series '' Fire Power'' alongside writer Robert Kirkman. Early life Chris Samnee grew up in De Soto, a nearby suburb of St. Louis. His earliest exposure to superheroes came through the ''Super Friends'' cartoon. He was not aware of the print source material for those cartoons until his grandmother began buying him three-packs of comics from a grocery store. His first comic book was a ''Batman'' book that he read when he was five or six years old, and that became his favorite character. He began copying the work of 80s artists whose work he was exposed to, like Tom Mandrake, Jim Aparo and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek ( ; born September 16, 1960) is an American comic book writer. His work includes the '' Marvels'' limited series, his own series titled '' Astro City'', a four-year run on '' The Avengers, Thunderbolts,'' and ''Superman.'' Early life Busiek was born in Boston. He grew up in various towns in the Boston area, including Lexington where he befriended future comic book creator Scott McCloud. Busiek did not read comics as a youngster, as his parents disapproved of them. He began to regularly read them around the age of 14, when he picked up a copy of '' Daredevil'' #120 (April 1975). That comic is the first part of a continuity-heavy four-part story arc; he was drawn to the copious history and cross-connections with other series. Throughout high school and college, he and McCloud practiced making comics. The pair contributed to comics hobbyist publications like NMP's ''Comics Feature''. During that time, Busiek had many letters published in comic book letter columns and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Allred
Michael Dalton "Mike" Allred (born 1962) is an American Comics artist, comic book artist and writer. He is most well known for his Alternative comics, independent comics creation Madman (Mike Allred character), Madman and for co-creating and drawing the comic book series iZombie (comic book), ''iZombie''. His work often draws upon pop art, as well as commercial and comic art of the 1950s and 1960s. Early life Michael Dalton Allred was born in 1962 in Roseburg, Oregon. His father, Dale Leroy Allred (May 20, 1926 – October 5, 2007), was born in Portland, Oregon. He was a psychologist and professor at Umpqua Community College and the University of Oregon, and received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1959 at Purdue University. Allred's mother, RaeBell Jenkins (née Bird; July 19, 1934 – February 17, 2014), was born in Bluebell, Utah. The two married in December 1951 in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1973, Allred's parents divorced, and he stayed with his father in Eugene, Oregon, while his b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Sakai
is a Japanese Americans, Japanese-born American cartoonist and comic book creator. He is best known as the creator of the comic series ''Usagi Yojimbo''. Early life Sakai was born Masahiko Sakai (坂井雅彦) in Kyoto, Japan, to Akio and Teruko Sakai. His father was a Nisei, second-generation Japanese American from Hawaii, who was stationed in Japan with the U.S. occupation of Japan, U.S. occupation forces. Sakai and his family moved back to Hawaii when he was two years old, and Sakai was raised in the Kaimuki, Hawaii, Kaimuki neighborhood of Honolulu. He studied Fine Arts (disciplines) at the University of Hawaii before continuing his training at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Career He began his career by lettering comic books (notably ''Groo the Wanderer'' by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier) and wrote and illustrated ''The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy''; a comic series with a Middle Ages, medieval setting, influenced by ''Groo t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Adams (Oregon Politician)
Samuel Francis Adams (born September 3, 1963) is an American politician in Portland, Oregon. Adams was mayor of Portland from 2009 to 2012 and previously served on the Portland City Council (Oregon), Portland City Council and as chief of staff to former Mayor Vera Katz. Adams was the first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city. Early life and education Samuel Adams was born in Butte, Montana, to parents Larry and Karalie Adams. Adams was the third of four children. When he was a year old, his family moved to Richland, Washington, but shortly after moved to Newport, Oregon. Adams graduated from high school in 1982, then started at the University of Oregon in 1984. Adams did not graduate from college until 2002, when he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oregon in political science. Early career Adams began his career in politics as a staffer on Peter DeFazio's 1984 campaign for the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives in Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sturm
James Sturm (born 1965) is an American cartoonist and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Sturm is also the founder of the National Association of Comics Art Educators (NACAE), an organization committed to helping facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education. Biography Sturm grew up in Rockland County, New York, and later attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In college, he published the comic strip ''Down and Out Dawg'' for the student newspaper, ''The Daily Cardinal''. Sturm partnered with Tim Keck (who later co-founded ''The Onion'') to sell monthly calendars decorated with ''Down and Out Dawg'' characters, helping both pay for their studies. In 1988, one year after graduating, he self-published ''Down and Out Dawg'', a book collecting his college newspaper strips, and ''Commix'', an anthology that featured some of the first works of Chris Ware and Scott Dikkers. In 1990, Sturm was hired as a production assistant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Beaton
Kathryn Moira Beaton (born 8 September 1983) is a Canadian comics artist best known as the creator of the comic strip ''Hark! A Vagrant'', which ran from 2007 to 2018. Her other major works include the children's books ''The Princess and the Pony'' and ''King Baby'', published in 2015 and 2016 respectively. The former was made into an Apple TV+ series called ''Pinecone & Pony'' released in 2022 on which Beaton worked as an executive producer. Also in 2022, Beaton released a memoir in graphic novel form, ''Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands'', about her experience working in the Alberta oil sands. ''Publishers Weekly'' named ''Ducks'' one of their top ten books of the year. Early life Of Scottish descent, Beaton grew up with her three sisters in Mabou, Nova Scotia, Mabou on the isle of Cape Breton. She went to a small school for K–12, only having 23 people in her class. She graduated from Mount Allison University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and anthropology. Beaton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Pope
Paul Pope (born September 25, 1970) is an American alternative cartoonist. Pope's work combines the precision and romance of European comics artists with the energy and page design of the manga tradition. Pope's two protagonist types are the silent, lanky outsider male of ''The One Trick Rip-Off'', ''Escapo'', and ''Heavy Liquid''; or the resourceful, aggressive, humorous young teenage girls of '' THB''. He has self-published some of his work, most notably ''THB'', through his own Horse Press, with other work for such publishers as DC Comics/Vertigo and First Second Books. Early life Born in Philadelphia, Pope grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio, with stops in Columbus, Ohio, San Francisco, and Toronto in between. He describes his influences as Daniel Torres, Bruno Premiani, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Tony Salmons, Hugo Pratt, Silvio Cadelo, Vittorio Giardino, and Hergé. Career Pope introduced '' THB'' in 1995, the same year he began work for Kodansha, Japan's manga publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Smith (cartoonist)
Jeff Smith (born February 27, 1960) is an American cartoonist. He is best known as the creator of the self-published comic book series ''Bone''. Early life Jeff Smith was born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania to William Earl Smith and Barbara Goodsell. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio.Szadkowski, Joseph; Smith, Jeff (June 16, 2007)"Mix of tradition, fantasy comics pays off for artist" ''The Washington Times''. Smith learned about cartooning through comic strips, comic books, and animated TV shows."About Jeff Smith" . Boneville. Retrieved July 23, 2013. The strip he found to be the most entertaining was Charles M. Schulz's '' |
