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TONIGHT! Join me on a 'First Thursday Graphic Novel Walking Tour'!

My pal Shawn Bowman (creator of the "Criminal Crafts" Shiv Cosy!) helps run these PNCA "Graphic Novel Walking Tours" that leave Floating World Comics on First Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.

I'm going on tonight's tour -- and anyone who wants to say hi, look at art and enjoy a beverage is invited to join us. (I know fellow "Serenity Tales" cartoonist Neal Skorpen is showing up, as well.)

The event details, taken from the PNCA release:

First Thursday Graphic Novel Walking Tour: June

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 Everett Street -- including the Sequential Art Gallery and the Pony Club.

The tour leaves Floating World (located at NW 5th and Couch in Portland) at 6:30 p.m. You’ll want to head downtown early, as it is really tough to find parking at that time.

Hope to see you tonight!

First Thursday Graphic Novel Walking Tour: June (PNCA)

TONIGHT: Live-blogging 'Rigoletto'...

As part of a new-media promotional experiment, the Portland Opera has graciously invited me and several other local online writers to live-blog the Opera's production of "Rigoletto," with a backstage tour and everything.

As I'm almost completely ignorant of opera going into tonight -- the Portland Opera specifically wanted newbies for this gig -- this may present an opportunity for laughter and learning. (I hear singing may be involved!)

I'll start posting updates in this space around 7 p.m. If there's some sort of unforseen technical disaster, I'll instead post updates to my Twitter feed. There may be photos and funny drawings.

We're rolling. The fun begins after the jump. There will be many misspellings, and too many of them will be of names. Latest posts at the top.

CulturePulp: Now on Twitter.

In a move I may very well regret, there is now a CulturePulp channel on Twitter. Follow as you see fit.

I will, at minimum, link new CulturePulp posts from there. There may also be the odd cryptic update on other projects. And, I don't know, pictures of my cat or something.

Published by Top Shelf and Daydream.

1. I totally forgot about this until I saw it in the comic-book store yesterday:

For one of the first CulturePulp comics, I watched the great David Chelsea crank out a 24-page comic in less than 24 hours.

That CulturePulp now appears in the back of "24 x 2" -- a Top Shelf book collecting two more of David's 24-hour comics.

2. Also, as mentioned earlier: I once participated in an evil little comics jam called "Pope-O-Puffs." It appears in the premiere issue (Spring 2008) of the Daydream Visual Journal -- now available at these locations.

It took all these men and more to create 'Pope-O-Puffs'

I'm told "Pope-O-Puffs" -- a comics jam in which I drew something silly -- will appear in Marc de Giere's zine Daydream #1.

Daydream is billed as "Portland’s new visual journal celebrating narrative art." Issue #1 will be available at the Stumptown Comics Fest,. You can also get a copy at the Daydream #1 release party -- set for May 1 at the IPRC ( (Details here, on page 4.)

Above: An unfinished "group self-portrait" of the "Pope-O-Puffs"artists. Clockwise from top: S.W. "Conch" Conser, yours truly, Adrian Wallace, and Tom Lechner. Spider Moccasin will be in the final drawing.