Sharing stories of how rewarding it has been embracing being a community activist. The unexpected joy of being offered an opportunity to experience an overview of one’s life.
Rupert Kinnard is a Portland-based graphic designer, cartoonist and activist who created the first ongoing gay/lesbian-identified African-American comic-strip characters: the Brown Bomber (a teenage superhero) and Diva Touché Flambé (his ageless lesbian partner). Kinnard is gay and African American. His recent book, Ooops…I Just Catharted! Fifty Years of Cathartic Comics, which was published in 2025, was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2026.
Also, Rupert was in both a recent Hollywood Star and Portland Mercury!
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