A four panel comic of an artist visiting Portland.1: While walking down the street, they think: "I decide to go on a serious wander on my last day in Portland. This street is so nice." There are many plants along the sidewalk. 2: The artist is looking at a portrait. "I go to the museum and see the Frida Kahlo exhibit." 3: The artist is trying on stylish clothes. "I do all the Portland shopping: Bridge + Burn, Wildfang, Powell's, Floating World..." 4: The artist is sitting in a cafe. "I daydream about living here, on a hot beautiful sunny day while trying to imagine the rain." On their phone, they are "reading on a queer dating app that Ezra Furman is in town that night."

Comic by Jam Dyer. Spoiler: Jam lives in Portland now, Powell’s and Floating World worked their magic.

 

Feedback Loop

Here’s some insider info: this is a growth year for Risk/Reward. More artists, more time-slots, more space, all of that. But our hope is that the experience itself will be denser, too. So we’ve started a low-key program called Feedback Loop, where we invite artists to make art in response to the new art that our festival artists are making. One of our Feedback Loop projects is a zine made by some fantastic comickers that will get mailed out, physically, in the weeks following the festival. (Print’s not dead, y’all.)

 

The amazing artists that are going to be live-sketching and writing during this year’s Risk/Reward Festival are:

Liz Yerby

Jam Dyer

Joseph Maslov

BB Andersson

 

Come to the Festival and sign up for the snail-mail list to make sure you’ll get the Feedback Loop zine! (And if you’re a writer/illustrator who might be interested in contributing, drop us a line at info@risk-reward.org.)

A comic illustration of many musicians with instruments and microphones in a tight clump

Comic by BB Andersson