It’s a new year, Spring is just around the corner and so is Cartoonists Northwest’s Toonie® Award Banquet! There is no more cherished, treasured, inspiring, beautiful, hand-crafted award (wrapped in a gift box) in all of CNW!  And there is no funner night to be had than our Toonie® Award Banquet!

We do have tables available for the upcoming show on November 13th. Due to confusion with us switching from a mailed table packet to a web-site posted version, we are extending the deadline for the table price increase until November 1st. We also have a few Small Press-Artist Alley tables available at $60. each. We’ve condensed our Table Packet to one page of information + 2 pages of Exhibitor Application. These can be found on our greatly improved web-site: www.portlandcomicbookshow.com. If you have all ready reserved a table, we will be posting table locations this weekend. Set-up instructions will follow the 1st week of November. If you need more of our show brochures, please let us know via email: portlandcomicbookshow@comcast.net .We appreciate your support of the Portland Comic Book Show! Now going into our 33rd year!

It’s looking to be a busy Autumn for the bureau! Many of our members took part in 24-hour Comic Day, to generally stupendous results. Kudos to those who lasted and those who tried! This month, we have our traditional Halloween art show at Cafe Racer, on the theme of fortune tellers. The opening gala will be held at 6-9 pm on Thursday, October 27th, at the Cafe Racer. Also in our future is out very own table at Short Run small press festival, taking place on November 12th at The Vera Project in Seattle Center! I’ll be there, I hope you will too. It is there where you can pick up your own copy of Bloor, the anthology celebrating everyone’s favorite Uranusian dictator. If you can’t wait, Bloor can be yours through our Etsy store. (more…)