From women’s suffrage in Oregon to the tragic Vanport Flood to the legendary all-ages venue, the X-Ray Café, Oregon History Comics presents oft-dry histories in an exciting and accessible format — through bold illustrations from some of Portland’s best and brightest comics illustrators. Whether you’re a history buff or just a casual comics reader, you’ll find value in this box set as a way of learning more about why Oregon is the way it is today.
Collected in the set are: Faces of Lone Fir Cemetery — Sarah Mirk Life and Death of the X-Ray Cafe — John Isaacson Dead Freeways — Don Barkhouse Portland’s Black Panthers — Khris Soden The Streets of Chinatown — Harry Lau Voices of Celilo Falls — T. Edward Bak The Vanport Flood — Nicole Georges The Lives of Loggers — BT Livermore Votes for Women — Suzette Smith Oregon Bikes — Shawn Granton
Here are some closer views. First up, the X-Ray Cafe. Though I am from Seattle, I remember this place!
The Ministry follows the model of the 826 centres: a writing centre where kids aged 8-18 can get one-to-one tuition with professional writers and other volunteers; with the centres being housed behind fantastical shop fronts designed to fire the kids’ imaginations (and generate income for the writing centres).
In our case, the shop is Hoxton Street Monster Supplies – Purveyor of Quality Goods for Monsters of Every Kind.
Visit Hoxton Street Monster Supplies – Purveyor of Quality Goods for Monsters of Every Kind.: http://www.monstersupplies.org/
826 National: 826 National is a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization with chapters in eight cities across the country that are dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing.
Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
The Bigfoot Research Institute has all the necessities for your Bigfoot, Research, and Institute needs! Visit today before you end up in a hairy situation.
For Sale: Cyptozoologist's Career Starter Kit, Jungle Hygiene Kit, unofficial Yeti Hairball, Baby Giant Centipedes, and Sea Serpent Secretions.
The Boring Store is open every day from 12-6. Come by and browse our selection of surveillance gear, check out our carrier pigeon supplies, and try on a moustache. All proceeds from Boring Store sales go directly toward supporing 826CHI programs.
For Sale: Periscopes, trench coats, and night-vision goggles; disguises of all kinds (n.b. this is not by any means a store for spies).
The Museum of Unnatural History showcases the rarest of rare and the surrealist of surreal artifacts from times long past. Dedicated unnaturalists and enthusiasts of history that might not have ever happened will love perusing the vast collections and museum curios. Be sure to marvel at the museum's unbelievable animal assortment, featuring everything from weagles to owlephants, and explore, if you dare, the store's built-in cave (yep – it really has a cave). For Sale: Unicorn Tears, Confused Wood (from the makers of Petrified Wood), Weather Rocks, Wallace's Primordial Soup, Future Mold, Scorpion Finders, and much more.
The Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a leader in convenience retailing, sells everything you need before you take a road trip through the fourth dimension. You can grab time-machine fuel, a can of mastodon meat, and a cup of coffee in one quick stop.
For Sale: Dinosaur eggs and princess hats; robot-emotion upgrades, dodo chow, and scarlet letters; time-machine parts; coffee.
Never been to a robot supply and repair shop? Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair carries the perfect combination of products for robot enthusiasts and robots themselves.
For Sale: Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, Mega Mech, The RoboPanda, Robot Emotion Upgrades & First Aid kits, Positronic brains, The Is Your Little Sister a Robot? Test Kit .
The Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company outfits adventurers, commuters, rocket scientists (professional and freelance), tourists, theoretical mathematicians, specialists of all stripes, small crews, and large parties.
For Sale: Rocket fuel, air, assorted ray guns; intergalactic peace treaties, travel cups, spaceship accessories.
Many have said that upon entering the best pirate supply store in San Francisco, they get a sensation of déjà vu. Others walk in and feel at once the miracle work of an unseen hand. Yet there are those whose eyes bulge and shrink simultaneously while their thoughts are so convoluted that they are unable to shout or mutter the question that most plagues them: “What is this place?”
For Sale: Hooks, flags, and message bottles; rat traps, peg legs, and pirate perfume; wax seals, dice, and lard (for bartering, not sale).
TED talk on the Pirate Store and the origins of the first 826 store…
…speaking on the phone from his home, Moore seems variously baffled, tickled, roused and quite pleased that his creation has become such a prominent emblem of modern activism.
"I suppose when I was writing V for Vendetta I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact? So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world… It's peculiar. It feels like a character I created 30 years ago has somehow escaped the realm of fiction."
Here we go again. L.A. street artist Shepard Fairey has released a second original design for the Occupy Wall Street movement -- and this time, instead of playing it safe with a wistful scene out of an Angela Davis documentary, he's given his own (in)famous HOPE poster from Obama's first election campaign a rebellious makeover.
It uses all the same colors and graphic-design aesthetics as the original. Only difference is, Fairey has replaced President Obama's heavenward gaze with a "V for Vendetta" Guy Fawkes mask -- one of the key props used by Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Novel? Yeah, I am working on one. Sort of. I've been working on it for years. In fact, the one I am working on now, in one form or another, dates back to high school. It is not the same book, I could publish that old manuscript and the new one and they would completely stand alone as separate novels, but it definitely has its roots there, it started there and evolved from there.
It is not the only novel I've not finished, but it is the oldest. Over twenty years old now. Wow. Right now it is caught in what they would call in the film making world "developmental hell." I am still researching, world building, and developing characters and plot. But, bottom line, I haven't really started it yet.
I think I'll go with the snow excuse. It was deep. In my mind, at least.
Of course, if I ever finish the damned thing, then I need to deal with this, which is probably as much of a reason as anything for why I haven't finished mine. It is hard for me to justify the time expenditure when there is no guarantee that anyone other than a few friends will ever read the thing. Of course, I look at the work as a hobby, just a fun thing to do in my spare time. Of which I have very little and what I do have I've been spending on photography these days.
