This Is Portland

Finally! A real dose of Portland, and who better to deliver it than some of the city’s most respected artists, writers, shakers and doers. A travel book can tell you where to eat and sleep, but This is Portland convey’s the city’s soul and spirit more faithfully than any other.

The Right Tool & Other Poor Choices

Words and pictures by Craig Foster

You might not be able to tell at first glance, but some people could be bears and others nothing at all. Or they could be misfits governing a neighborhood without anyone there knowing it. Perhaps a devoted parent of vintage dolls. All of them doing their best, using the right tools at the wrong times.

The Scream & Other Dark Stories

By Jerry Sampson. Illustrations Sean Croghan.

Deep in the shadows of the human soul are monsters that should never see the light of day. But some fight to the surface, consume the entire being, then prey on anyone else that is around. This is the world of new horror. The Scream & Other Dark Stories is 14 tales where the monster is no longer within.

Fish Cough

By Craig Buchner. Cover by Natasha Chomko. Collages by Emmi Greer.

Obsessed by what is around him, Thom begins to question his own wishy-washy life philosophies. But as he and his husband, Howard, struggle to navigate their rollercoaster relationship and their shaky careers as freelance writers, Thom is faced with a challenge far greater than the persuasive power of their possessions.

Another Fortune & Other Poems

By Liz Lampman. Art Lettie J Rennekamp.

In the boozy aftermath of exciting sex, when mind and body become one, and from the space between mind and body, where the longing that travels physical distances comes to us not as undeviating lines but as radial waves, these poems urge us to remember those we have truly loved and those we have craved after.

20!8: The Order of Athena vs The Orange Bastard

By Anita Lobo. Illustrations Hugh Newell.

In this comic thriller you will see the world as it is, and as it should be, while speeding towards a surprising conclusion that will having you laughing, crying, and just maybe even peeing your pants a little. Welcome to The Order. Welcome to 20!8.

What We Pick Up

Words and pictures by Stacy Brewster

Sharp observation, cinematic detail, and wit; Stories that span vastly different decades and landscapes. Brewster's tales of fathers, sons, brothers, and lovers-gay, bi, trans, queer-all manage to mix dark humor, earnest pathos, and a quiet reserve of hope to re-vision a different path forward for all of us.

The Last Payphone on the West Coast

Words and pictures by Rich Perin

How are you at change? Do you carry yourself with grace, or fall apart, dissolve into insignificance without humor? Featuring a shopping-cart tramp, a freshly released ex-con, a 1979 Cadillac hearse, and other folks from the periphery negotiating the age of smart phones and instantaneous expectations.

Buckmxn Journal:
Issues 001 - 008

The flagship. An anthology of art and writing.