Fort Thunder
The Providence warehouse and the artists who worked in it, among them Brian Chippendale and Mat Brinkman.
Part of Underground Comics
19 moments in this segment.
- - Brian Chippendale. One of the artists based at Fort Thunder, the Providence warehouse whose occupants produced Paper Rodeo and Multiforce before the building was demolished in 2001.
- - Fort Thunder artist at work on a new comic. Fort Thunder had already been demolished when this was filmed, and Brian Chippendale, working on in Olneyville, was finishing an eight hundred page book, If'n Oof.
- - Pro Tour-San Juan: John Avon's Zendikar Lands. Illustrator John Avon shows oversized versions of the full-art basic lands he painted for the Zendikar set of Magic: The Gathering and explains the landscapes behind each one, recorded during a Pro Tour weekend in San Juan.
- - FATE: Fort Thunder Tour. A handheld walk through the interior of Fort Thunder, the Olneyville warehouse in Providence, showing the accumulated construction, printed matter and decoration filling the rooms. There is no narration guiding the tour.
- - Interview with Vancouver artist, cartoonist and animator Rebecca Dart. Vancouver artist and animator Rebecca Dart talks about her drawing practice, her character design work for animation and her own comic Battle Kittens, shown in a short studio conversation.
- - Brian Chippendale at Cinders Gallery. Vanessa Carr talks with Brian Chippendale at Cinders Gallery during his exhibition Fruiting Bodies, with his dense drawings on the walls behind them.
- - Baba Brinkman (Interview) RTR #104 3-15-15. Rapper and performer Baba Brinkman is interviewed at length about making work that argues openly with religion, his path as a touring artist, and the reception of his music, with tracks played between questions.
- - RUINS, Fort Thunder, 1996. Ruins, a Japanese duo, played Fort Thunder on 26 June 1996 on a bill with Ultra Bide, 25 Suaves, Meadowlark and Fat Day, one of the shows that concentrated the Providence and Boston scene.
- - Maggots di Brian Chippendale | Consigli Manga Alternativi. Brian Chippendale drew Maggots between 1996 and 1997 directly over the pages of a Japanese book catalogue, and PictureBox printed it that way in 2007.
- - Ninja by Brian Chippendale. Brian Chippendale's Ninja was drawn in the Fort Thunder years on found paper and printed as a brick of a book, its panels read in a boustrophedon path rather than left to right.
- - Modern Newsprint Comics | Paper Rodeo + Smoke Signal | Tetsunori Tawaraya / Fort Thunder / Paper Rad. Issues of Paper Rodeo and Smoke Signal are turned page by page, newsprint tabloids carrying Mat Brinkman, Ben Jones, Jessica and Jacob Ciocci, C.F., Tetsunori Tawaraya and Charles Burns.
- - Vice Press Matt Ferguson & James Henshaw Artist Interview | Art Print Expo 2022. Illustrator Matt Ferguson and Vice Press founder James Henshaw discuss producing officially licensed screen-printed film posters and art prints, covering how licences are obtained, edition sizes, and how a commission moves from sketch to press.
- - Interview with abstract artist Rod McIntosh on the transformative power of art in his life.. Abstract painter Rod McIntosh traces his childhood in Singapore, an adolescence on the south coast of England, and art school in Sheffield, where illness and the human body became his subject after his mother's cancer. He describes staff work at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the insecurity of going full time.
- - Every EC COMICS ARTISTS’ LIBRARY Hardcover from Fantagraphics SO FAR!. A shelf run of the Fantagraphics EC Comics Artists' Library hardcovers, taken volume by volume: Harvey Kurtzman, Wallace Wood, Al Williamson, Jack Davis, Johnny Craig, Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, Joe Orlando, John Severin, George Evans and Reed Crandall each get their stories named and their pages shown.
- - Fort Thunder Demolition. Footage of the Olneyville mill buildings that housed Fort Thunder being torn down. Mat Brinkman and Brian Chippendale started the Providence space in 1995 and its demolition was announced in 2000. Scored with music from the film Secret Mall Apartment.
- - Inside the Mind of Brian Chippendale: Fort Thunder, Providence & the Power of Local Arts. Brian Chippendale co-founded Fort Thunder, the Providence mill building where artists lived, printed and staged shows, and he talks here about what that space gave the city's art scene.
- - Xander Marro: The Dirt Palace Library: Dec 8, 2025. The Dirt Palace, a feminist artist-run space founded in an abandoned Providence library in 2000, holds a library of the local underground, and Xander Marro describes archiving it.
- - The Storytelling Secrets Every Comic Creator Should Know | Brian McDonald | Inspired Ink #93. Screenwriter and story consultant Brian McDonald discusses the mechanics of narrative set out in his book Invisible Ink, his notion of the golden theme, and how those principles apply to writing comics, drawing on work for Pixar, LucasFilm and Monkeypaw Productions.
- - Lightning Bolt at Fort Thunder. Footage shot on a Sony VX1000 in 1997 inside Fort Thunder, the Providence collective where Lightning Bolt rehearsed and artists lived among the printing equipment.