NW Voices Presents author, Douglas Wolk

NW Voices presents author Douglas Wolk Monday, February 12. Portrait image of Douglas Wolk

NW Voices Presents author, Douglas Wolk

Workshop: Tuesday February 12th at 2pm - 3pm in LCC Health and Science Building (HSB) room 107

Reading: Tuesday February 12th at 5:30 pm at the Longview Public Library

Douglas Wolk is a pop culture critic, teacher and writer, and the author of All of the Marvels, Reading Comics and 33 1/3: Live at the Apollo. He’s written about comics and music for magazines, newspapers and web sites including Time, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Believer, Entertainment Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Slate and Pitchfork.

Wolk has been a National Arts Journalism Fellow at Columbia University and a Fellow in the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program. His other projects have included the comic book Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two and the record label Dark Beloved Cloud.

Wolk has lectured and moderated panels at Comic-Con International, the Experience Music Project Pop Conference, the Center for Cartoon Studies, New York Comic-Con, Rose City Comic Con, Emerald City Comic Con, WonderCon, and elsewhere; he’s appeared in the documentaries Marvel’s Behind the Mask, Cartoon College, Ink: Alter Egos Exposed and Jandek on Corwood. He’s been honored with the Will Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book, the Harvey Award for Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation, and the Krill Tro Thargo for Service to Thrill-Power. Currently, he teaches at Portland State University and hosts the podcast Voice of Latveria. He lives in Portland, OR.