Comics museum a possibility for Downtown Portland

The goal of an organization working to make a Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts (NWMOCA) in Portland a reality will soon be a little closer to a reality, with a planned pop-up exhibit opening next year.

A pop-up location has yet to be finalized; however, Mike Rosen, Board Chair of the NWMOCA, is hopeful that a spot in the downtown shopping district of Portland can be secured. Although there is no guarantee that the pop-up will result in a permanent space, the board chair sees it as being instrumental in garnering support for a crowdfunding campaign.

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As Rosen told the Mercury:

"Portland is the epicenter of the artistic comic community in the United States. We have an embarrassment of riches in terms of collectors, comic book shops, artists, writers, and three major publishers: Oni, Image, and Dark Horse."


The pop-up museum will open in June 2023 and stay up throughout September, during which it will display two exhibitions: History of Pacific Northwest Comics and Multiculturalism in Comic. It is hoped that the pop-up will lead to the group making connections with political and civic leaders locally as well as at the state level and that that will lead to a permanent downtown location for NWMOCA.
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