Good news, everyone! The second installment of the Oregon History Comics series is now readable and buyable all over Portland. This issue details the life and death of the X-Ray Cafe, an all-ages venue in downtown Portland that helped establish our city as a capital of counterculture. It’s illustrated by the wonderful John Isaacson, a great fit for the project because he normally occupies his idle hours making Feedback, a zine about all the crazy music shows he sees.

Our printer Charles ran off 300 copies of the comic Tuesday night, unceremoniously dumping the inky proofs in the trash (don’t worry, I saved them for posterity).
I strapped the heavy box of comics to my bike and delivered it to the Independent Publishing Resource Center, where we’ll spend the next week assembling and stapling in preparation for the Portland Zine Symposium. But you can get a copy before then—I took the first ten editions downstairs to Reading Frenzy. Enjoy!