Untitled PDX Comics Doc
Monmouth, Oregon
 | A production blog for a documentary on comics culture in Portland, Oregon, produced and directed by Shaun Huston. |
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| Keywords: | shaun huston, comics, portland, oregon, documentaries, western oregon university, film, films, culture, community, comics culture, comics scene, art, artists, writers |
| Updated: | June 29th, 2008 at 12:07 AM |
| Added: | May 18th, 2008 |
| Site URL: | http://olympus_mons.typepad.com/pdxcomicsdoc/ |
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Recent Posts
Yesterday, the first interviews for the main part of the documentary were recorded. Thanks to Paul Guinan and Shannon Wheeler for their time and to Kaebel Hashitani for letting us use The Sequential Art Gallery for the afternoon. I also got to welcome Tanya Schiller and Danny Sprinkle to the crew. UPDATE: more about this stage of production on Mediated Worlds....
If you are an active member of Portland, Oregon's comics community, as a writer, artist, publisher, librarian, store owner, critic, event organizer, or however you see your participation, take a few moments to complete the following survey, which asks questions related to your perception of Portland. The information gathered through the survey will help to shape the production of the documentary....
Continuing with our accelerated production schedule, Anne-Marie, newly added production intern Alex Kunkle, and I spent the better part of Saturday recording footage of the Stumptown Comics Fest. We focused on the exhibition hall, but also shot segments of one of the festival's many panel presentations (the one we were at focused on the business of comics for independent creators, publishers, and...
posted on Untitled PDX Comics Doc in Monmouth - 4/27 - 8:26 PM
Anne-Marie and I spent the weekend getting footage of 24-Hour Comic Day at Cosmic Monkey Comics on NE Sandy. In all, we shot close to three hours of tape, including overnight time-lapse footage (1.5 second every 15) of the artists' table. I was also able to attend an organizing meeting for the Stumptown Comics Fest, which happens at the end of the month, and the main reason that I've begun...
As part of the pre-production for the documentary, I will be distributing a survey regarding perceptions of Portland. There is a web-version of the survey and an electronic/hard copy version. If you are a comics writer, artist, publisher, critic, historian, shop owner/worker, librarian, or would consider yourself an active participant in Portland's comics culture or "scene," and would like more...
This is the production blog for a currently untitled documentary on comics culture in Portland, Oregon (USA). The film is intended as an exploration of the connections between people and place, and, particularly of the qualities that seem to make Portland a vital center for comics writers, artists, and publishers and their allies in shops, libraries, and criticism.Who I am: I am Shaun Huston,...
