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wc williams - linework nw bar drawings

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My acquisitions from this years Linework NW in PDX! All the artists are tagged in this Instagram post...check out the rest of their awesomeness!!! #LWNW2016 #pdx

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Food Cart Feature

Each year LineworkNW has proudly gotten support from some of Portland’s finest Food Carts, right at our door step, keeping exhibitors and attendees well fueled during the weekend’s activity.

This year we are very excited to announce the following carts who will be posted just in front of the Norse Hall, serving up the goodness this weekend.

Yoburi Coffee Coffee and Curry with Yo’s. Find your espresso, coffee and tea here. Come back for delicious Thai Curry & Tofu or Chicken over Rice. Vegan options and Gluten Free. More info: Here

Taco Pedaler Modeled after the late night amazing street food you can find in small villages throughout Mexico. Taco Pedaler uses responsibly sourced meats and produce from small local farms, and their cart is bicycle powered. Vegan and Gluten Free options! Check out their menu here: Menu

Fifty Licks Portland’s best ice cream!

“We make French-style ice cream, using real egg yolks (as opposed to chemical emulsifiers like mono and di glycerides) to create super-rich ice cream from real ingredients. Our ice cream isn't overly sweet, so the flavors really shine.” Vegan options available. (Also delicious!) Check out their menu here: Flavors

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Linework NW is this weekend and you are free to do as you like! But what makes a person happy?

What makes a person fulfilled?

Many rush to the comforts of food and daydream all that that can enhance their time in the day throwing their $5 to $40 (depending on income bracket) to their digestive systems.

But food is a passing joy.

Why not invest those dollars instead in the world of longevity? At the Gridlords table at Linework NW we have timeless articles of priceless joy that you can take home and absorb from for the rest of your life. These articles are precious not only in their quality of depth but also in their rarity. The work is one of a kind and made in limited quantity, making it very special for a thoughtful and curious person to ponder and share for an eternity. Choose eternity, and exist like you care for both your present and your future. Live for the today and the tomorrow. Gridlords: We are the Vertical and the Horizontal.

You can find original art and printed matter by: Sean Christensen Andrice Arp Jason Overby Julianna Green Tara Booth Michel Losier

And these two Gridlords publications debuting this weekend: The Longer You Stare the Fatter I’m Guilty by Dylan Jones and Wure Twenty Fifteen by Zachary Bizzarro

Linework is a 2-day show with different exhibitors on each day. We are there on Saturday.

1pm - 8 pm at the Norse Hall 111 NE 11th in Portland OR

And don’t forget to come see us tonight (Friday) at Floating World

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It’s #LineworkNW weekend and we have 5 debut books coming out!

- Levon Jihanian’s DANGER COUNTRY: The Role Playing Game Quick Start Guide. It’s real! It works! It’s awesome!

- Zack Soto’s SECRET VOICE #3 (all brand new!!!!! Still serializing on the web but in print NOW) and a reprint of SECRET VOICE #1 with a new cover and a SIMON ROY pin up back cover.

- Tyler Landry’s VILE #1 - a brand new one man anthology title focusing on horror and suspense! This double sized debut issue has its West Coast debut after dropping at TCAF last week.

Francois Vigneault’s TITAN #3. This is the SEXIEST comic about labor relations in space that you’ve ever seen! West Coast debut.

Come see us on Sunday at the Norse Hall in Portland, at the Press Gang table #6! It’s Free! 

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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

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Top 5 Reasons it’s Totally Awesome to Volunteer for Linework NW

(Art by Kinoko Evans, Poster Design by François Vigneault)

Hi! My name is Matthew Tweedie, but you can just call me Tweedie if you like. Most of my friends do, and I certainly hope we can be friends! I’m the volunteer coordinator for Linework NW this year and I want you to get involved! Everybody loves top 5 lists, so I thought I’d throw one together to explain, in my very humble opinion, why you should consider volunteering!

1) It's Different From the Big Cons & It Makes a Difference When You Volunteer

If you’re anything like me, you’ve done your fair share of the big comic conventions and maybe you’re kinda burnt out on those. They’re big and loud and you feel constantly pressured to be spending money. Oftentimes they feel like excuses for DC and Marvel to show off their new tv shows or movie teasers. And don’t get me wrong, I like superheroes just as much as the next guy whose played every Final Fantasy game ever made, but sometimes these conventions feel rather limited in focus.

Linework NW is different. It’s not a convention, for one thing! It’s a festival. It’s a party that we throw just because we love comics so much! It’s completely free, so no one will ever be turned away ‘cause they don’t get paid ‘til next Friday. It’s a much more intimate affair, and you get the opportunity to meet awesome artists that you might not be exposed to otherwise. Both days are completely different in terms of who’s tabling and which special guests are gonna be there. There’s a focus on comics as a medium that I find so very important.

So for all of those reasons, I think LWNW is an important show, and it offers a very different experience from any other comics show in Portland. It’s truly a labor of love and we want everyone to have an amazing time. To make sure that happens, we need as many hands on deck as we can possibly get.

Linework NW 2015 (Photo by David Scroggy)

2) You’re Going to Want to Check it Out Anyway

Look at that line-up. I mean, seriously. Get a load of it! Really take it in. There are so many totally radical people up there! Don’t you wanna come tell them how cool they are?

So, while you’re at the Norse Hall, you can stick around for a couple of hours and work the merch table! Or walk the floor and make sure everything is going smoothly. Or sit down and greet people at the door. You do not have to make a huge time commitment (although, of course, you are more than welcome to). Any of which would qualify you to get into exclusive LWNW events where you get to party with your organizers, exhibitors and your fellow volunteers. These parties are FUN and you don’t want to miss them.

Jim Woodring’s 6 Foot Pen & Me, LWNW 2014 (Photo by François Vigneault)

3) You’ll Meet Awesome People & Make Cool New Friends

I’m really proud to be one of the organizers for LWNW this year. More than that, though, I’m extremely happy to be part of a team with so many awesome people on it. I look forward to every single meeting. Zack Soto, François Vigneault, Tristan Tarwater, Kinoko Evans, Jason Fischer & Sam Marx are all truly wonderful people, and I feel lucky to count them among my friends. I met every single one of them, without exception, through volunteering at Linework NW.

And that’s just my fellow organizers. I’ve met more cool artists, vendors, photographers & just straight up comic fans at LWNW than I have time or space to name. And I did it while helping to put on an awesome show! How cool is that!? Very cool, if you ask me.

Also, you get to meet me. And I’m great!

Linework NW Co-Founders Zack Soto & François Vigneault (Photo by ???)

4) I Will Love You Forever

Potential Volunteers, you are basically like Obi-Wan Kenobi to me. You’re my only hope. Additionally, you are not unlike Balto. I’d be lost without you.

All volunteers are subject to my eternal gratitude and friendship, as many high fives as they want, and I’ll even let you meet my dog. She is universally adored on account of her good looks and sassy attitude.

My Cute Dog, Who You Can Totally Pet (Photos by Josh Harvey, Me)

5) It’s Just A Lot of Fun

Really, I think this is probably the best reason. It’s a blast. I had excellent experiences volunteering in both 2014 and 2015, and now Linework is one of those things that I eagerly anticipate every year. It’s basically to my twenty-nine year old self what Christmas Morning was to me when I was twelve. And I want as many people as possible to be able to share that feeling with me. You should volunteer for yourself, because it’s an amazing thing to be a part of.

Crayonwork NW (Photo & Coloring Inside the Lines by Me)

So those are just a few reasons why you should volunteer for Linework NW this year! This list is by no means exhaustive or comprehensive, but I think it’s a pretty good one all the same. Drop me an e-mail at lwnwvolunteers@gmail.com and please signal boost! I look forward to seeing everyone in May!

- Tweedie

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Cats and pups seems to be the theme today! These will be the goodies I'll have available tomorrow at @lineworknw in Portland! Linework NW is a illustration and comics festival at Norse Hall featuring a variety of artists and creators. Come see me at table 31A on Saturday, May 21st from 1-8pm. #PDX #LWNW2016 #nimasprout #nicolegustafsson

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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.

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Studio Q+A: Brett Carville

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 Brett Carville.

Where do you live? I live in SE Portland, Oregon.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? I try to do most of my work at Helioscope studios in downtown Portland, because the people there are wonderful. I also have a studio space set up in my apartment that i work in.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? For inking, i really love Pentel extra fine brush pens (pigment only never dye based, they smear), and Microns.For pencils i like Staedtler and Col-ERASE. Also, (plug) the CARL Angel-5 Pencil sharpener is the greatest pencil sharpener ever made. We should all aspire to be as perfect and efficient as this pencil sharpener, it's wonderful. You will have points for days...​​Oh and the Cintiq is also a great tool that i use a lot.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? I don't have any toys, but i do have casts of Vincent Price, David Bowie, and Sandra Bullock hanging on my wall. They're my unholy trinity and shield me  while i work alone through the night on comics.

What are you working on for this year's LineworkNW? I'm debuting LIFE OF CRAIG issue #2 Pussy Paranoia at Linework!  Life of Craig is my sci-fi comic series about bloodthirsty cougars and unlucky virgins. It's sort of like a cross between Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Golden Girls, and the Bible.

I just finished it after a crazy two month grind and I'm super excited for people to see it! I'm also selling the new 4th edition of issue # 1 which I debuted at last years Linework NW, as well as some prints and thangs.

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Studio Q+A: Thomas Fernandez

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 Thomas Fernandez (Live Rad Studios).

Where do you live? I live part time in Portland, and part time in San Diego, CA

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? I rent a room in Portland, which i primarily use as my studio, and that is where the majority of my artworks is made. I am a professional tattoo artist, and i am originally from San Diego, so i try to be in California every other month to tattoo. I enjoy the ritual of spending a month tattooing, then spending a month working on paintings, illustrations, sculptures and other projects.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? My favorite "tools of the trade" are as follows, Hiro nibs, Kafka and Windsor & Newton brushes, Pentel pocket brush pen, my old thriftstore light table, and my Vac-U-Form.

 Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? My work space is covered in crap. I love being surrounded by the things that inspire me, so they unconsciously permeate what ever i am working on. there are tons of toys around and on my desk. Primarily they are vintage monster toys, or very kitschy cute mid century toys. I like the combination of gross oozing monsters, and smiling kewpies paired together. toys aside there are alot of old Halloween masks, and black light posters hanging up around my work space.

What are you working on for this year's Linework NW? Currently for linework i have a few new projects in the works. I have a new run of fluorescent silk screen prints that were a collaboration, and printed by Nightwatch Studios. I have also been sculpting, vacumforming, and airbrushing monster masks. Similar to the 1960's hard plastic ones you find at thrift stores. this has been a project ive always wanted to do, and am stoked to be releasing the first run at linework! I will have some new shirts, stickers, zines, toys, enamel pins, and other junk!

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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.

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Studio Q+A: Ross Jackson

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 Ross Jackson.

Where do you live? I live in deep SE Portland. I really like it. There are a lot of birds in the backyard and a Russian Market down the street that has really tasty pastries, bread and fish. Shout out Roman Russian Market.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? I work a lot out of home, though that can get kinda distracting sometimes. On a nice day, my favorite place to work is the rooftop patio of the IPRC.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? I recently had the opportunity to visit Japan and I just went hog-wild buying art supplies. I’ve been really into this Tachikawa G pen that I use with Comic Super Black ink. It’s smooth until it’s gunky. I love it. For lettering and stuff, I really dig Papermate Flair pens, which you can get at Walgreens for way cheap. It’s a perfect doodlin’ pen, but I tend to smear it around the Bristol sometimes.  I’m also a big fan of this electric eraser I bought at Daiso in Seattle. I teach a kids comix class at the IPRC and I think the students are more impressed with that eraser than anything I’ve ever drawn.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artworks in your creative space for inspiration? Yes! I have a bulletin board above my desk that has a whole bunch of postcards and photos tacked to it. I think the highlights are the post it notes by Lindsay Anne Watson and this postcard of Edo era sex toys that Hokusai drew. My desk is in my bedroom, which has pretty much retained the same vibe since I was 16.  My prized decorations are a Little Friends of Printmaking Adventure Time print that I bought on my road trip moving out to Portland, my Yoshitomo Nara postcards, a map of the Mission in San Francisco from an ARG, and a Simon Hanselmann/Michael Deforge/Patrick Kyle collabo poster that I bought at Linework last year. I also have some Homestar Runner figurines and Kaiju with a swirling demon face that my buddy DJ got me for Christmas one year. It’s all very inspiring.

What are you working on for this year’s LineworkNW? I’ll be releasing a new book about bored girls in Florida with antagonistic senses of humor and snowballin’ stakes. It’s called Ha Ha! Very Funny. It’s my favorite thing I’ve written so far. I should also have some iron on patches of Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle and prints explaining emanata, the language of comix. Did you know that scribbles instead of swears are called grawlixes?

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Studio Q+A: Jesse Reklaw

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 Jesse Reklaw.

Where do you live? I live in Portland Oregon right now, but that is getting harder to do lately.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? I draw and write half at home and half at cafes or wherever. I do most of my painting at home because it is messy. (I am messy.)

What are your favorite tools of the trade? Lately I have been enjoying different markers, and mixing markers with different types of paint -- kind of playing with hard lines versus areas of color and shade. Some of my favorite pens are The Uniball Signo white, Microns and Zig Milleniums of all colors, and Promarkers (from either Letraset or W&N). For paint, I use Liquitex acrylics and Windsor + Newton watercolors. I also like to use good old nibs and India ink.

Do you keep any posters, toys, artwork in your creative space for inspiration? Yes, I usually have photos of friends, artwork, and postcards that inspire me around me workspace. I have been kind of living on the run lately, so I don't have a space set up right now, but attached is an old photo of the aesthetic I'm going for.

What are you working on for this year's Linework NW? I am debuting a travel diary / sketchbook / graphic novel called LOVF, published by Fantagraphics. This book evolved from a notebook I had with me during a manic phase, and it got covered with intricate, intense, and confusing drawings. After I got better (?), I added a narrative so it kind of tells the story of my "vision quest" as a homeless crazy man. I’m excited and terrified to go on tour to promote this book.

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Pre-Linework Release Party Friday May 20 5-8 PM

Here is your chance to meet some incredible local artists who have new books from some of the world's most forward-thinking publishers. Kuš!, Retrofit, Tiny Splendor, Perfectly Acceptable Press, and Gridlords Publications of Portland.

Come and meet the creators at Floating World Comics the night before Linework NW and get these books before anyone else!

Zachary Bizzarro Wure Twenty Fifteen Published by Gridlords Have you noticed you are dying every day, only to wake up to new experiences that feel like memories? Are your memories pulling at your seams and exposing new bodies you forgot you had? The last time you took out the recycling, did you notice it was the same as last time and the last time but in a different order? R.I.P. Every day is a universe and artist Zachary Bizzarro AKA Wure has exposed us to a field of universes within his very distinct personal dialect of drawing. Wure works exclusively in an old computer paint program making lines that feel familiar like humanity and also like nothing you have ever really seen. 

Dylan Jones The Longer You Stare The Fatter I'm Guilty  Published by Gridlords Dylan Jones has led a shoe mouth face floppy dagger dinger across an array of pages with his dexterous limbs' pinwheel pineal dialogue. His new book will no doubt leave a zipper-length void in midmouth just as you grew wanting.

Sean Christensen Q Published by Gridlords Q is a look at what Home is and means, along a journey toward feeling a sense of place. Q is the journey towards finding Home within oneself and welcoming others as guests into the you you have made.

Sophie Franz The Experts Published by Retrofit The Experts is a foreboding story of 3 "experts" on an isolated station, investigating the strange water creatures that live in the area, even as the investigators lose touch with their superiors and even what exactly they are doing at the base.

Lindsay Anne Watson I Don't Need Eyes Published by Tiny Splendor I Don't Need Eyes is a collection of love letters to moments both real and imagined. Lindsay Anne Watson is not afraid of thunder.

Tara Booth Unwell Published by Kuš! "Tara Booth is a young cartoonist originally from Philadelphia, now living in Portland, Oregon. She offers up this simple, lighthearted slice-of-life pantomime comic, made special by her naïve-style visuals. Her heroine’s day begins with waking up in the bed of a rather unattractive fellow with whom she obviously spent the night. She beats a hasty retreat and proceeds to go about her day: biking home, showering, making art, drinking beer, and hanging out with her dog and having fun. At one point she also encounters an exhibitionist masturbating right in front of her—and being a self-reliant sort, fixes him but good (which recalls the events in Pičukāne’s Three Sisters, actually). Booth’s painterly pages recall those of Anna Vaivare’s Swimming Pool (Kuš! mini #24), but with a vivacious wit and colorful charm all their own. Unwell is a perfectly delightful confection and Booth strikes me as a real up-and-comer." —The Comics Journal

Andrice Arp Further Reading The Book I Didn’t Have Time to Make for this Show is the best zine Andrice has made to date, according to David Lasky, and also according to herself. Further Reading is a sequel of sorts, but also, don’t freak out, stands on its own. Maybe it will even be better. It’s definitely more dignified. Includes unhelpful creativity tips, real cocktail recipes and up-to-date information on such popular subjects as dogs, cats, the internet, candy and the future.

 Daria Tessler

Three Magical Recipes from the Book of Secrets of Alberts Magnus Published by Perfectly Acceptable Press

Dig out your parents’ glassen vessel and catch thyself a rearmouse — Daria Tessler illuminates three recipes from Alchemist-in-Chief Albertus Magnus’s Book of Secrets… One spell-binding four-color Risograph booklet.

WHO: Dylan Jones, Sean Christensen, Sophie Franz, Lindsay Anne Watson, Tara Booth, Andrice Arp, Daria Tessler WHAT: Linework Preparty Extravaganza WHEN: Friday May 20, 5-8pm WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St. Portland OR

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Studio Q+A: Reid Psaltis

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 Reid Psaltis.

Where do you live? I recently moved back to Portland after a year split between Monterey, California and New York.

Where does the majority of your creative practice take place? Home? Studio? Café? Other? A little of each. Anything digital happens at home where I've got a comfortable set up. When I need to work out ideas I go to a coffee shop and when its time to make things happen I go to my studio space, Magnetic North.

What are your favorite tools of the trade? Last year I completed a grad program in scientific illustration, which pushed me to learn a lot of new media. Before I was strictly ink on paper. I love my Pentel pocket brush pen. But now I really enjoy watercolor and gouache and I've learned to embrace digital media. Interning at the American Museum of Natural History in New York got me into sculpture too. Now when I start a new project I often make a model of whatever creature I'm drawing. Sometimes I need it for reference sometimes its just a fun way to get excited about getting started. 

Do you keep any posters, toys, artwork in your creative space for inspiration? After moving several times in recent months I've been prioritizing keeping my life minimal right now. Most of my inspiration comes from books, things I can pull out when I feel like looking, rather things on my walls. I'm, however, slowly starting a wall of art from friends in my new workspace, including prints from friends. 

What are you working on for this year's Linework NW? I'm hoping to wrap up a new comic called "Dennis" in time for the show. If all goes to plan it will be a three color mini, made with the help of my studio mate Walker Cahall. It's an unauthorized adaptation of a chapter from a popular book about genetically engineered dinosaurs that I probably shouldn't mention by name.