Portland’s annual book festival — has done a magnificent job this year with comics and graphic novels, including a Saturday panel on “Comics and Politics” that featured Alison Bechdel, Spain Rodriguez and Patrick Rosenkranz.
Moderated by Doug Wolk (Reading Comics), the panel drew a sitting-room-only crowd of 250 Saturday afternoon, Mystery Novel but the panelists had a hard time generating the debate and fireworks that the audience expected. Best I could tell, folks came to the Oregon Convention Center to hear Bechdel, in particular, and the cartoonists discuss how they would deal with political issues with Barack Obama in the White House.
What they got instead was a few too many Spain Rodriguez stories — entertaining though they were — about comix in the ’60s, and the history of EC and MAD magazine. Nobody tried harder than Rosenkranz to generate some excitement up on the stage, Mystery Novel but his efforts were rarely rewarded with a dynamic exchange.
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