#lineworknw

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It’s been over a year and a half since we wrapped up our third Linework NW festival back in May of 2016. When that show closed, we announced that we would be putting LWNW on hiatus for 2017, with the intention of returning in 2018. However, after much consideration, the LWNW Crew has decided to extend our sabbatical indefinitely. There will be no Linework NW festival next year or anytime in the near future.

As we mentioned last year, LWNW is a volunteer-run organization, and it takes a tremendous amount of energy to put on the festival each year. All of the organizers have had major creative, professional, and personal business to take care of in the last year, and and taking some time off from putting on the festival has honestly been a welcome break for all of us. While we love and cherish the incredible warmth and energy of the festival and the Linework NW community, we hope you’ll also understand that we’ve decided to take more time off. If and when we decide to return, Linework NW will be better than ever. And you’ll hear about it here first.

As always, all of our thanks, love, and appreciation to the creators, volunteers, sponsors, and attendees who have made Linework NW such and incredible, moving, and vibrant nexus for our creative community in Portland and beyond. 

All our love,

The LWNW Crew

François Zack Kinoko Tristan Tweedie Jason Sam

[brettcarville]

Had such a blast at #lineworknw this year, #lifeofcraig sold really well and i met a bunch of amazing artists. 2018 cant come soon enough!

[wcwilliams]

wc williams - linework nw bar drawings

[jmfenner91]

Here’s another sketch I did yesterday while hanging out at Linework that I painted up this morning.

[burnsidepacific]

LINEWORK NW HIGHLIGHTS / Chi Chi Land

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Café Racer Mugs

LineworkNW and Coffee Beer have teamed up this year creating 70 limited edition commemorative mugs, designed with Kinoko Evans’ “Café Racer” logo for this year’s show. Get ‘em while they last! Mugs are available only at LineworkNW’s merch table both days.

[norhuu]

Fairytale gal pal buttons for linework nw tomorrow

[jmfenner91]

A quick sketch I did while hanging out at LineworkNW yesterday. Had a blast — so many cool art and people around!

[cmbutzer]

Just some of cool things I'll be bringing this Sunday to the LineworkNW Festival!

I'm really excited to be participating in a festival in my home town! I've already seen a Timber game (they lost. Boo) gone hiking up Oneonta Gorge (Not freezing in May, if you need proof of global warming that is it) BBQ'd on the Sandy river! (Thanks Rocky!) It's been pretty sweet except my brother insists that we ride bikes everywhere. So my visit will be wrapping up with this Festival- It's free admission and chock full of amazing artists whom I'm lucky to exhibit with! So come by this Sunday and check out some cool comics and illustrations!

Linework NW will take place on Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, May 22, 2016, at the Norse Hall in Portland, Oregon. Hours of operation are 1pm-8pm both days. Attendance is free and open to the public.

NORSE HALL

111 NE 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97232

[brettcarville]

Just got these babes in from the printers! #lifeofcraig issue 2 #lineworknw #comics #pdx , pre-order campaign launching in a week for everyone who wants to order a comic 😊

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Studio Q+A: Suzette Smith

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting writer, creator, artist Suzette Smith.

Where do you live? I live in Portland. I live in like the armpit-butt of downtown Portland, kind of near popular comic book shop and unassuming center of culture Floating World Comics.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? I used to work in cafes but working in cafes can be inconsistent for productivity. Sometimes I’d go to a favorite place and it would be full. Sometimes a place was nice n’ empty but then, a reunion of politically-minded college chums would show up and shout at one another or an enclave of ice cream store managers would have an annoying conversation about scooping depth right next to me.

I looked at how much I was spending on cafe time every month (not to mention the stress of carrying my shit everywhere) and put that money into a small small small efficiency apartment. It is my one true love. I am very fortunate.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? I use gouache paint. Sometimes I use tea. I use Bee Paper Aquabee watercolor paper. My friend Jenna Lechner turned me onto Bee Paper because they make it’s in Beaverton, OR. I’ll never be able to live as ethically as I want to live but I do what I can. When you buy things locally it’s like you spend 3x the amount.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? I found a painting that glows in the dark. It’s a plain painting. I try to be like that painting. I’m not showy but I glow in the dark.

I have a harp on my wall that is played by two people biting on the wood and then plucking the prongs. It plays music that only those two people can hear.

I have a globus cruciger that my dear friend Cari Vander Yacht made for my birthday. Whenever I look at it I feel her love and care.

What are you working on for this year's LineworkNW? I’ll be at the Sparkplug table. People can get my Sparkplug comic Ce/Ze about spooky schoolgirl best friends and I’ll also have a brand new collection of short funny comics called Summer Songs.

[norhuu]

A sack of nut buttons that will be available at Linework NW this Saturday!

[sketchcover]

Punisher #1 cover by Ed Luce (Wuvable Oaf) from LineworkNW. Check out his page wuvableoaf.com.

[cmbutzer]

The inks are done, the book is lettered, I'm in post-production getting ready to print! KITTENS #2 "The Sounds of Indifference" is almost done! Above is the mock-up for the silkscreen cover.

I'll be debuting this issue at the Linework Festival in Portland, OR in late May! Pick it up then!

[brettcarville]

Midning oil burninnn #lifeofcraig #comics #lineworknw

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Studio Q+A: Andrea Rosales

Linework NW is at its heart a gathering of remarkable creators, editors, illustrators, cartoonists, and publishers who represent some of the best work that is being produced in these mediums today.

Each day from now until the show we will be highlighting the amazing creators of Linework NW in a series of short interviews on their process and studios. Today’s Q+A, conducted by Kinoko Evans, will be spotlighting artist Andrea Rosales.

Where do you live? I’m a self-exiled Portlandian bouncing around between studio spaces in Los Angeles, California and Portland, Oregon. Right now I live in Los Angeles.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? A majority of my creative work happens at my gigantic desk where I have a 24-inch Cintiq, a giant drawer filled with half-drawn in sketchbooks, and other drawers filled with various types of paints, inking pens and brushes and other art-making goodies. When I feel the need to get a change of scenery, I will go out to work in a coffee shop, the library or at a friend’s place if I am collaborating with them. Sometimes I find that changing my workspace helps me to regain focus and hone in on my work.

I’m a bit of a neat-freak, so it’s difficult for me to work in an environment that’s messy because I’ll always want to clean up around me before I set off to work. I’ll change locations if I’m feeling a bit restless or if my studio is too messy for me to work in and I don’t have time to clean it up (this is quite rare). I tend to travel around a bit, and this helps with generating new ideas.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? Most of the work I create nowadays is done digitally with my Cintiq and 15”inch Macbook pro, but before I do any work on my computer, I sketch my ideas, drafts, concepts and thumbnails out onto my sketchbooks. I love working in my sketchbooks first because it’s where I can really “think” through my ideas on paper. The sketchbook is where an artist makes their thinking visible. My favorite tools of the trade include good-ol’ col-erase pencils, soft lead pencils (the darker the line, the better!), mechanical pencils, eraser pens, thin liner pens and brush pens. I also thoroughly enjoy working with gouache paints.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? Absolutely! Right now I’ve got a calendar with classic Disneyland attraction posters and I’ve also got a few Japanese ukiyo-e prints along with various other Disney prints and a Star Wars poster. In my Portland studio space I’ve got lots of photos from places I’ve traveled to around the world and postcards. I love postcards! I love that they offer terrific shots that you can’t easily get yourself and that they are super affordable souvenirs. That they pack flat is also a big plus. I always return from a trip with a sizable stack of postcards. I don't have any figurines (yet!), but a few action figures here and there. 

I also have a considerable stack of concept art books nearby that I love to flip through. In general, art books and comic books are never too far away from my desk.

(The books pictured below are a small fraction of my entire collection of art books. These are the ones I have with me now in Los Angeles.)

What are you working on for this year's Linework NW? For this year’s Linework NW, I’m working away on pages and merch ( buttons and bookmarks!) for Nine Twilights, an action/adventure magical girls meets Norse mythology web-comic ( think Sailor Moon meets Thor). I’m incredibly excited that my collaborators, writer-mastermind Anne Agnew and editor extraordinaire Chris Hansbrough will be joining me for Linework NW. We’ve been working away on this project together for a while now and they’re both such a joy to work with. I feel so incredibly lucky to work with them. We have a lot of fun times together but we also keep each other focused and push other to do the best work possible and I think that shows on each page. We just launched the comic this past April and we update on Tuesdays and Thursdays on NineTwilights.com.

This project is a fusion of our loves and things that we’ve always wanted to have together in a comic: a diverse international cast featuring an empowered magical all girl super-team packing a punch to defeat the undead, blended with Norse mythology, fun character expressiveness and properly drawn archery scenes. We’re thrilled to be sharing it with Linework NW and we’re excited to take it to Rose City Comic-Con and Long Beach Comic-Con later this year as well.

I’ve also got other prints and artworks (visit andrearosales.com to see more) that I’m selling under the name of Good Walrus Goods, which is my online Etsy shop (https://www.etsy.com/shop/GoodWalrusGoods).

I love working with color and making cute illustrations inspired from my love of animation. In all of my work I’m trying to imbue my characters with as much life as possible so that they instantly connect with viewers. My hope is that the charm, energy and vim and vigor of my characters in my art can brighten peoples’ day and make them feel a little happier.