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Patrick Rosenkranz and Charles Boucher discuss the way two Oregon artists, Carl Barks and Basil Wolverton, influenced legendary underground cartoonist, Robert Crumb. Produced by Oregon Cartoon
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Institute, and shot, directed, edited and co-produced by Karl Lind, of In The Can Productions, LLC. http://www.inthecanllc.com/
Oregon Cartoon Institute is a colloquium of organizations and individuals interested in raising awareness of Oregon's rich animation and cartooning history.
Founded in 2007, the Institute sprang to life in Kim's Video in New York when Anne Richardson was paging through a book about R. Crumb. She came to a footnote stating that one of Crumb's major influences, the Donald Duck comic book artist Carl Barks, came from Oregon, her home state. She knew Homer Davenport and Mel Blanc were Oregonians, as were Will Vinton and Matt Groening. How any others were there? She asked fellow Oregonian-turned-New Yorker David Chelsea, himself a cartoonist, about this and he told her about Basil Wolverton. She began collecting other names, eventually contacting animation historian John Canemaker to get his thoughts. Canemaker immediately added two more to the growing list: Pinto Colvig and Marc Davis.
After Dennis Nyback and Anne Richardson returned to Portland from New York, they founded the Institute to explore this neglected aspect of Oregon history. In 2010, electronic composer Heather Perkins became Oregon Cartoon Institute's first artist in residence. Oregon Cartoon Institute receives fiscal sponsorship from the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission.
