PODCAST: Stumptown's non-fiction comics panel -- featuring David Chelsea, Dennis P. Eichhorn, Khris Soden and Ryan Alexander-Tanner




(Photo by Bill Mudron.)

So here's a podcast of the Jan. 24 episode of KBOO's comics interview show "Words and Pictures" -- in which S.W. Conser and I introduce highlights from last October's "True Portland Comics" panel at the Stumptown Comics Fest.

"Words and Pictures: True Portland Comics" (mp3, 29:43, 27.2 MB)

The panel was devoted to "the art and ethics of non-fiction comics," and featured the following cartoonists:

DAVID CHELSEA is a cartoonist and illustrator who’s contributed work to The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, and SPY; his caricatures are now a regular feature of The New York Observer, and he illustrates the “Modern Love” column in the Sunday New York Times. He’s the author of the autobiographical graphic novel David Chelsea in Love, with recently re-entered print, as well as the essential comics textbook Perspective! For Comic Book Artists.

DENNIS P. EICHHORN has worked as a journalist and freelance writer for about 30 years. He’s also the author of many children’s books, as well as several adult-oriented cartoon stories — most recently displayed in a book collection titled Real Stuff by Dennis P. Eichhorn and a Host of Artists, and also in The Legend of Wild Man Fischer, which Eichhorn co-authored with Portland artist J.R. Williams. He is, in the words of R. Crumb, a “damn good storyteller.”

RYAN ALEXANDER-TANNER is Willamette Week’s comics journalist. He’s profiled Lifesavas, Willy Vlautin, Show Me the Pink, and (most controversially) Geoff Byrd for the alt-newsweekly’s “Volume” section. He also draws weekly “snapshot” comics for WW that capture moments around town — in settings ranging from a child’s sidewalk bug museum to an urban barber shop. And in a recent WW cover story, he took on nothing less than a survey of the recent, problematic history of the local energy industry.

KHRIS SODEN dives into semi-obscure moments in Portland history with his well-researched comic “City of Roses” — which ran in the gorgeous-but-defunct alt-broadsheet The Organ until it folded last year. Soden’s topics have included John Couch’s arrival in Oregon City, bloody sailor riots, the Temperance movement, the origin of Portland’s “Stumptown” nickname, and even the goings-on at the 19th-century Oregonian newspaper. He’s given illustrated slide-show lectures about the history of the Pearl and River districts, and he’s currently working on “City of Roses: God’s Madman” — a full-length comic about eccentric pioneer Hall Jackson Kelley. You can read some “City of Roses” comics at KhrisSoden.com.

"Words and Pictures: True Portland Comics" (courtesy KBOO)

Related:
'True Portland Comics' panel at Stumptown Comics Fest this Saturday
CulturePulp 038: The Comic Art Battle!

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