Join us for our second night of Awake Time Stories! A comics reading featuring three visiting artists from the BIG Apple – Olea Kim, Grayson Bear and A.T. Pratt. Take a bite Portland! Sure to be an event NOT to miss!
Who: Olea Kim, Grayson Bear, A.T. Pratt
What: Comix Reading
When: Thursday August 8, 5:30-7 pm
Where: Floating World Comics 1223 Lloyd Center
Olea Kim is a nonbinary artist, designer, and cartoonist. They review comics and edit the comics page for The Grind, an alternative commuter newspaper. They are the Co-Editor of Broken Pencil Magazine, an international publication dedicated to exploring independent creative action.
Grayson Bear is a cartoonist from a smelly fishing town on the Oregon Coast. They currently live in Brooklyn, NY and are working on their first graphic novel, Superfun. Bear’s work is influenced by the television that raised them, including the wonky forms of early American cartoons and the drama of ’90s anime. Their hobbies include touching grass and staying in their lane.
A. T. Pratt is a cartoonist, professor, and paper engineer born and raised in New York City. He makes self-published comics and paper crafts of all shapes and sizes, often including handmade special features like pop-ups and fold-outs. The comics range in genre from horror, autobio, self help and personal fitness to “funny animals” and more. He has been self-publishing since his sophomore year of college at Rhode Island School of Design in 2010. He started teaching after school comics classes for kids in 2018 and then started teaching college comics and self publishing classes at Montclair State University in 2019, as well as comics classes at School of Visual Arts since 2022. Pratt was awarded MoCCA Awards of Excellence in 2022 for Little Brothers #666: Andy Goes to Hell, and in 2023 for Healthy Body?! Healthy Brain!!. In 2018, he won the RISD Craft Emerging Artist Award, a distinction given to an alumni participating in the alumni/student art sale who graduated in the last ten years.
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