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Portland City Council candidate Chloe Eudaly's new campaign literature welcomes readers to the "non-artisanal post-'Portlandia.'"
The rent hikes and evictions mentioned in it may not be part of a Carrie and Fred plot line, but it's hard not to think of the production of cartoon-style literature for an upstart candidate as Portland weird.
It features the work of cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco, best known for his work in Gaza, who produced it as a fundraiser for for Eudaly, who runs the independent bookstore Reading Frenzy.
Eudaly badly trails incumbent Steve Novick in fundraising: Last month, he had $95,000 on hand, and she had under $7,000, as of Sept. 19. (That's partly because Eudaly pledged to reject donations from any groups that have business interests in front of the City Council.)
She has promised to make up for her meager fundraising totals in her race to unseat Novick with creativity.
As WW reported last month, Sacco promised to pitch in. The resulting artistic efforts may soon paper the doorsteps of voters in Portland.
A preview went online Friday.
The campaign says they'll send out 50 copies of the six-page comic for every $250 raised.
The cartoon features a day Sacco and Eudaly spent meeting the people who've experienced Portland's rent hikes.
The preview notes that the City Council has declared a state of emergency but has only passed a law to provide 90-day notices on rent hikes and evictions.
"That's like pushing the snooze button on people either becoming cost-burdened or displaced—sometimes homeless," the cartoon strip preview reads.
Willamette Week