Oil and Water is a book-length comic (Fantagraphics, Fall 2010) that is a partly fictionalized account of a 10-day trip 22 Oregonians (activists, teachers, business owners, scientists and artists) took last summer to "bear witness" to the BP oil spill.
Steve Duin (
Comics: Between the Panels and
Oregonian columnist) will briefly present the historic impact of comics on issues of contemporary social relevance.
Mike Rosen (Portland to Gulf Coast Project Leader) will give a quick overview of why this project was conceived and what it hopes to accomplish.
Shannon Wheeler (
Too Much Coffee Man and cartoonist for
The New Yorker magazine) will present his sketches from the Gulf Coast and show how he and Duin transformed them into a compelling portrait of what hope and challenges remain along a ravaged coastline, and one awash in both seafood and oil, that will be changed as irrevocably as those Oregonians that chose to bear witness to the tragedy. Q&A session to follow.
http://www.comic-con.org/wc/wc_search_results.php?strShow=29&strRec=3214
