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The Summer Reading program is free and includes versions for all ages — even adults!

There have been a few versions of Electro, but the one that debuted in Amazing Spider-Man #9 has become the definitive version.

People may think of comics and science as worlds apart, but they have been cross-pollinating each other in more than ways than one. Many classic comic book characters are inspired by biology such as Spider-Man, Ant-Man and Poison Ivy. And they can act as educational tools to gain some fun facts about the natural world. Some superheroes have scientific careers alongside their alter egos. For example, Marvel’s The Unstoppable Wasp is a teenage scientist. And DC Comics’ super-villain Poison Ivy is a botanist who saved honey bees from colony collapse. Superheroes have also crept into the wo...

Portland creators are getting in on the boom. By Julia Silverman 12/13/2020 at 5:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Portland Monthly An hour before the panel of authors was set to take the stage, the line at the 2019 Portland Book Festival event was already at least 1,000 hard-core, book-clutching fans deep, most of them craning their necks and standing on tiptoe, trying to game out whether they were close enough to the front of the line to snag a spot inside the 376-seat Whitsell Auditorium in the Portland Art Museum’s basement. Clearly, festival organizers had underestimated ...