Jamie S. Rich's Page

Yay for Oregon and our early voting capability!

Of course, my relief and excitement at having been able to have my voice heard is tempered with my anger over the nasty things the other side are saying about the rest of us. So, I have a few thinks I wanted to get off my chest, and I went ahead and did so at my blog.

Thanks for reading!

- Jamie S. Rich

"Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching—that’s the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has—at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity—undermined the country and its ideals?"

Read the full entry here.

Hey, folks.

I just posted a new piece to my blog regarding the recent tenor of the McCain campaign and his even more recent attempts to cool the waters. My basic premise is that anytime a candidate allows such things to happen and then claims it was members of his or her staff and happened without their knowledge or approval, it shows poor leadership skills.

Read the entry here.

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Our logo is getting notice! D. Camp from Stereovision saw my avatar on MySpace and, knowing that you can't flip the bird in Portland without a comics industry insider receiving it, hit me up to spread the word about a benefit he's organizing at Dante's this coming Wednesday. It features my good friend Lara Michell, who co-wrote and performed the theme song for my comic Love the Way You Love.

Here is the official press release:

"We don't have to go home, but we can't stay here!!!"

It's… Continue

Not comics, but a great example of someone using their art to make a statement. And a comics friendly musician, too boot.

http://djztrip.com/obama/

Here is Z-Trip's own statement from his blog:

"Recently, Shepard Fairey and I threw some fundraisers for the Obama campaign. We called them “The Party for Change”. (If you don't know who Shepard is—among many other things—he is the one responsible for the image on the right).

I've been wanting to put the mi… Continue