Bridge City Comics is proud to announce a special release party for Underground #1 on Wednesday, September 23 from 6pm – 8pm!

Underground #1 is written by Jeff Parker (Agents of Atlas, Interman), drawn by Steve Lieber (artist and co-creator of Whiteout, now a major motion picture adapted from the graphic novel) and colored by Ron Chan (Guy Ritchie’s Gamekeeper). All three are Portland locals and will be signing copies of Underground #1 (available for sale at Bridge City Comics) during this event!

In addition, original artwork from Underground #1 will be on display!

This event is open to the public and free to attend. Please come down and support our local comics talent!

Bridge City Comics is located at 3725 N. Mississippi Ave in North Portland. Please call 503-282-5484 or e-mail info@bridgecitycomics.com for more information.

About Underground
Park Ranger and avid caver Wesley Fischer is on a one-woman mission to stop Stillwater Cave from being turned into a tourist trap, but public opinion is not on her side. When locals begin blasting in the cave, Wes and a fellow ranger investigate – and a confrontation spirals into a deadly chase deep under the Kentucky mountains! http://www.undergroundthecomic.com

Steve will be in Artists Alley: table FF-16, between Colleen Coover and Ron Randall. He’ll have copies of the Underground #1 ashcan available for 3 dollars.

He’ll also be at two panels:
Thu, July 23, 2pm – 3pm
A Darker Shade of Ink: Crime and Noir in Comics— Crime comics are back with a bang! Darwyn Cooke (Parker: The Hunter), Greg Rucka (Gotham Central), and Steve Lieber (Whiteout, Underground) join moderator/noted mystery and comics writer Max Allan Collins (The Road to Perdition) to talk about the new incarnations of crime and noir in comics. Room 5AB

Friday the 24th:
11:30-12:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #6: Can College Prepare Creators for Comics Careers?— Hope Larson (Chiggers), David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Nick Langley (Rocket Llama), Jaque Nodell (Super Human Resources), Marko Head (Marko’s Corner), and Steve Lieber (Whiteout) discuss whether college education can really help people pursuing comics careers. Room 30AB

In the wake of the Macbook Caper (in which Steve Lieber lost his laptop to thieving thieves), we’d like to thank the comics internet for rallying to spread the word on this book. A nice big influx of people visited this site and checked out the preview of Underground #1 last week, largely sent by retweets on Twitter. Probably much more than Steve could have waved in on his own had he not left a big sign on his house saying FREE LAPTOPS-OH, AND TAKE THE ADAPTERS TOO!

We want to thank you comics activists out there for spreading the word and giving us a boost at a dour time. You rule. And while Underground doesn’t condone vigilantism, we do admire the creative lengths some have gone too, notably writer Paul Tobin who has been invoking a variety of curses and arcane magic.

Thanks again, everyone!

- Parker

We’re kicking off the UNDERGROUND website with an interview conducted by Zack Smith over at NEWSARAMA! Steve and I talk about how the project came about and some of the characters within.

Keep checking in here, we’re going to be filling this blog up with process-related posts, answering questions, and dropping caving tips in case you should ever find yourselves in a large hole in the ground. We appreciate any linkage you can spare on your own sites. And of course…

Call your local comics shop and preorder Now! Underground #1 comes out in September from Image Comics! And welcome to the site.