Various agencies opened 24-hour cooling centers throughout the city, in addition to the numerous daytime cooling and misting centers the city and local nonprofits set up in response to the heat. Editor’s note: This story pertains to a developing situation ...
27 Jul 2022 - K. Rambo and Kanani Cortez
How Peña Popo served as the ‘middleman’ to bring someone else's story to life in comic form The Portland State University Collaborative Comics Project aims to change the narrative around homelessness through ethnographic cartooning based on the e ...
2 Feb 2022 - Kanani Cortez
‘Alana’s Guide to Getting By’ illustrates how one person navigated homelessness in Portland The Portland State University Collaborative Comics Project aims to change the narrative around homelessness through ethnographic cartooning based on the experien ...
26 Jan 2022 - Kanani Cortez
A collaboration between comic artists, a research team and college students aims to tell the complex stories of homelessness and housing insecurity via ethnographic cartooning The Portland State University Collaborative Comics Project aims to change the n ...
5 Jan 2022 - Kanani Cortez
Local rapper Wynne on walking through her own fires and her new EP ‘DO MY OWN STUNTS’ Sina Wynne Holwerda, more commonly known as Wynne, describes the shock of the pandemic as running 100 miles per hour into a brick wall. Prior to the pandemic Wynne had p ...
24 Nov 2021 - Kanani Cortez
In conversation with Sloane Leong, she tells us about her forthcoming horror comic, ‘Graveneye’ and working with illustrator Anna Bowles Local comic creator and writer Sloane Leong, known for her graphic novel “A Map to the Sun” and her comic “ Prism Stal ...
13 Oct 2021 - Kanani Cortez