Portland Mercury reporter (and history major) Sara Mirk and the Dill Pickle Club are partnering with a variety of talented local artists to produce a series of comics looking at “under-acknowledged” Oregon histories. The planned topics are:

• Faces of Lone Fir Cemetery
• Life and Death of the X-Ray Cafe
• Vanport Flood
• The Fall of Logging
• Portland’s Black Panthers
• Celilo Falls
• Oregon Bike Building
• Chinatown
• Portland’s Bridges
• Dead Freeways

They are currently seeking $2,500 of funding (and are halfway there) via Kickstarter at:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dillpickleclub/oregon-history-comics

– where you can also see a sample of the first comic completed in the series (Lone Fir Cemetery) and find more information about the artists involved.