24 Hour Comics Day: The Comics
Posted in Events with tags 24 hour comic, 24 hour comics day, Emi Lennox, Liz Hodgson, Rick Kallen, Tom Lechner on October 9, 2009 by skorpen
Click to read:24 Hour Comics Day: Wrap Up
Posted in Events with tags 24 hour comics day on October 5, 2009 by skorpen
Attendance at this year’s 24 Hour Comics Day peaked at around 21 people. Despite a couple of logistical glitches, we had a lot of fun and created a lot of strange and wonderful comics. The Staff at Backspace worked hard to keep us happy and drawing. More photos on Flickr.
We started at 10 am Saturday. Soon after midnight we were down to about 11 people. Emi and Tom finished their pages around 4 am. Annie and Rick finished around 6, and Josh and Neal finished around 8. Liz completed a stunning 37 pages. David Chelsea worked on his upcoming perspective book until 9 am, and Pete Soloway kept at it for the full 24 hours. Congratulations to all!
Any finishers I missed, please post a comment. Thanks for participating everybody, and we’ll see you next year!
24 Hour Comics Day: Oct 3, Backspace Cafe
Posted in Events with tags 24 hour comic, 24 hour comics day on September 21, 2009 by skorpen
Join us for PNCA’s fourth annual 24 Hour Comics Day celebration! Take up the challenge to create a complete 24 page comic story in 24 hours! This year the action moves to Backspace Cafe, which features free wi-fi, arcade games, and live music in the evening. A wide range of food and beverages are available for purchase. And if you need a shot of inspiration, Floating World Comics is right across the street.
What to bring: art supplies, food money, imagination, energy
Admission is free. There is no need to pre-register. Look for 24 Hour Comics Day at Backspace on Facebook.
Please use public transit or arrange for a ride. Nobody wants your sleep-deprived self driving home!
Come meet the Artists!
Posted in CE Worshops, Events on June 24, 2009 by pncacce
PNCA’s 2009 Graphic Novel Intensive is a week long immersion into the craft of comics. Past instructors have included Scott McCloud, Peter Bagge, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden. This year faculty members multi-media artist Daniel Duford (The Naked Boy, Radio Relay Towers, blog and illustrator Ellen Forney (I Love Led Zeppelin, The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, website) lead students through a through a week long comics boot camp. Students will work to produce short pieces for an anthology. Original art and pre-orders will be available for the anthology. Come meet the artists!
Graphic Novel Intensive Guest Artists
Posted in CE Worshops, Events on June 22, 2009 by pncacceThis week’s Graphic Novel Intensive features guest artist lectures that are free and open to the public. They will be held in room 201 at PNCA at 4:15 each day.
Tuesday June 23 Carson Ellis, Illustrator + Deborah Hopkinson, Author
Wednesday June 24 Talya Bauer, PSU Professor + Author
Thursday June 25 Joelle Jones, Artist + Jamie Rich, Writer of 12 Reasons Why I Love You and You Have Killed Me
Updated Syllabus for Graphic Novel Intensive
Posted in CE Worshops on June 3, 2009 by pncacce The updated syllabus for the this summer’s Graphic Novel Intensive is now available. Join Daniel Duford + Ellen Forney for this incredible yearly program.
1st Thursday Graphic Novel Walking Tour- June
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1st Thursday, PNCA CE on June 2, 2009 by Shawn
Comming up quick is our last walking tour for the season. It should be a great night starting off with a series of psychedelic illustrations by E*Rock (Audio Dregs) and Cody Brant (Flaspar) at Floating World Comics- From there a quick hop across Burnside to Reading Frenzy to check out Carye Bye’s reception for her book “Hidden Portland” a guide to the lesser known museums and collections in our fair city. We’ll also stop at our usual haunts, Backspace Cafe, Upper Playground, the Compound, and all the great galleries on Evertt St.- Sequential Art Gallery, Pony Club- et al.
Tours leave Floating World at 6:30- you’ll want to head downtown early as it is really tough to find parking at that time.
1st Thursday Walking Tour, May 7th
Posted in Events with tags 1st Thursday, PNCA CE on April 29, 2009 by Shawn
This month’s Graphic Novel Walking tour starts off at6:30 at the Kitty Pryde benifit show at Floating World Comics. Over 70 comic illustrators have donated their origional interpretations of Pryde with the proceeds going to the Oregon Hemophelia Treatment Center, you can see more info on the show and the benifit at the blog Full of Pryde. Along with our usual stops at Upper Playground and Backspace Cafe we’ll be heading over to check out new work at the Everette St. Loft galleries of Pony Club, Sequential Art Studio and what ever else might catch our fancy. Local toy designers UNKL, have a show opening at Compound which should be especially cool, and is curated by Matt Wagner.
The walking tour is free with no pre-registration needed. We leave Floating World Comics, corner of 5th and Couch, at 7 pm and usually return around 9pm. Time permitting we’ll wind up with a comic jam at Backspace Cafe if participants are inclined.
Registration now open for Graphic Novel Intensive 09
Posted in CE Worshops on March 25, 2009 by pncacceRegistration is now open for this summer’s Graphic Novel Intensive.
This six-day workshop will begin with some basic ideas of character development and move into strategies for experimental narrative, with participants also examining the foundations of creating comics and graphic novels. This is primarily a studio class and covers comics terminology, layout, page design, life drawing, autobiography, and the work of contemporary and historical comics and cartoonists.
Participants can expect to develop a comprehensive understanding of the mechanics and expressive qualities of comic art present in a wide range of contemporary media. Comics have a distinct way of delivering a story that exists between the visuals of film and the exposition of language. As a verbal, visual, and narrative filter, familiarity with sequential art will also enhance the students’ experience of, and potential collaboration with, other media including film, theater, literature, illustration, animation, and video games. Participants will complete a project which will part of an exhibit and the seminar will culminate with the publication of a group anthology.
For more information about the intensive and instructors please visit the Graphic Novel Intensive site.
1st Thursday Comics Walking tour on March 5th
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3, 2009 by Shawn
First Thursday is coming up quick and we’ve got another great tour of comic related art planned. We’ll begin the evening at Floating World Comics with a show called “Vortex” collaborative pieces put together from a weekly comics jam by Sean Christensen (Awesome But True), Theo Ellsworth, Julia Gfrörer, Brodie Kelly, Amy Kuttab & Stefan Saito. Second stop for the evening will be the retrospective of Gary Bialke’s work on the campus of PNCA. Along with stops at The Sequential Art Gallery, Pony Club, Everette St. Lofts, The Compound and Upper Playground, we’ll wind up the evening at the release party for “Intense” the graphic novel collective which came out of last summer’s PNCA Graphic Novel Intensive Workshop. The party is at Backspace Cafe and features the work of Kevin Uehlein, Gregory Tozian, Randall Jahnson, Christopher Hazell, Marco Kaye, Jonathan McNally, Jefferson Powers, and Ezra Ereckson.
