Linework NW Announces Details Of 2015 Show; To Feature Flexible Exhibitor Tabling

Francois Vigneault and Zack Soto of Portland's Linework NW show have released a bunch of details about the 2015 version of their show. The show debuted in 2014 as a one-day expo at the Sons Of Norway Grieg Lodge with Michael DeForge and Jim Woodring as special guests. With the recent move by the Stumptown Comics organization out of the festival-running business and into a variety of other activities, including a support role with Rose City Comic Con, Linework became the vital comics city's principal arts-comics gathering right out of the starting gate.

The sophomore version of the show is also set for the Norse Hall. There will be significant changes otherwise, though.

* the show will be two days, April 18-19. This was previously announced, I just sort of like bullet points.

* the approach to the two-day show is different than merely extending the show to a second day. Instead of two days with the same exhibitors, the make-up of the floor on the two days will be significantly different. Each day will have its own special guests, and many of the exhibitors will change. A few "anchor" exhibitors will offer the only continuity between the days, essentially making Linework two separate shows. "I'm fairly confident no other show has done this before," said Soto. The idea is to allow the show to breathe a bit and give those that attend the show on both days a different experience each day.

* there will be four special guests. One they have on the line is a really, really good get but they pulled it from this article kind of last second so you and I will both have to wait!

* the Jupiter Hotel, which is a ridiculous place but one I liked very much despite the prison soap (soap with a hole cut into it), will serve as a sponsor. Discount rates will soon be available. I recommend everyone not staying in a house stay there; I had fun.

* the panel programming will be moved from the bar -- which people apparently liked and disliked in nearly equal parts because, well, it's a bar -- to the second floor of the hall, called the lodge room. That sounds very Lars Von Trier.

* exhibitor applications are open from now until December 31.

* an initial list of two-day exhibitors has been made available: Fantagraphics Books, No Brow, Dark Horse Comics, Oni Press, Top Shelf Productions, Adhouse Books, Periscope Studios and Telegraph Gallery.

I'm hoping to attend. I like the way they're playing with the format, and shows begin to feel like themselves in their second year much more than the first. Also: Portland. Also: it may be the only show in April that's not the April 11-12 weekend, and I'm only kidding a little bit about that last one.
 
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