Comics Scene

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Portland, as a city, is home to some of the most accomplished and some of the most critically acclaimed comic book and graphic novel authors working in comics today. and it's also home to some excellent comic book publishers. It is a comic book, graphic novel town. It's a huge comics city and it's just an amazing resource for us. So, that is obviously a factor in making it a great program. So when you want to have a guest lecturer, uhm, you can pull in the top people in the industry. You can go down and see original art from people. You can see publishers. It works on a lot of levels. We also have faculty who are enthusiastic and already interested. Everybody doing it is because they love it. Which is a real plus. You know, looking out at the class and there is the wide eyes and I know what those wide eyes mean. Give it to me. Give me all the information you have. I want it. I need to know how to do this. And then we have these great students, who are really excited and passionate about comics. So, it's this combination of elements, I think, that makes it just the absolutely perfect place for comics studies. Everywhere we go, people ask us question about how to make comics. How to express themselves in this medium and the only way to help that art form evolve is to teach it and let the next generation take it to the next step.