What a ridiculous week this is for art: Linework NW invades Norse Hall this weekend, fresh new plays are opening across town, and certain legendary comics writers are headed our way. And on the horizon? Kathleen Hanna in riotgrrrl professor mode, PICA joins forces with Elizabeth Leach for a contemporary art retrospective, there's a new anarchist library in town, and the Kids in the Hall are back in the USA. In other words—look now, because things are not slowing down. Here's a deluge of homegrown and out-of-town art to flood your synapses over the next week:

DANIEL CLOWES—Longtime Cloweshead Courtney Ferguson investigated the man's newly collected Complete Eightball 1-18 . "Like a videotape of '90s late-night TV, reading Eightball from cover to cover is as much a time capsule of ephemera as it is a collection of deeply of-this-time emotions that will never expire," says Courtney. Clowes will be at comics and illustration festival Linework NW this weekend.

LINEWORK NW—And SPEAKING of Linework NW, if you're going this weekend, we want you to come prepared, so Suzette Smith has drafted an authoritative guide to this year's bounty of indie press comics vendors, from Floating World to Snakebomb. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES.

INTISAR ABIOTO AT DUPLEX GALLERY—Abioto's excellent photo blog, The Black Portlanders, goes analog with a gallery show at Duplex. "Continuing her work on The Black Portlanders," writes the person* who reviewed this, and evidently really liked it, "Abioto shoots with the same careful attention, and rather than include dull, voice-of-god exhibition labels, Contents' accompanying text tells her subjects' stories."

CHECK THE TECHNIQUE VOL. 2—Hiphop historian Brian Coleman reads from his latest, Check the Technique Vol. 2: More Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies, at Compound Gallery tomorrow night. "The ultimate pleasure in reading Check the Technique is in unearthing details that have never been revealed before, like learning that the duo 3rd Bass had a hit put on them by MC Hammer's brother through the Crips in Los Angeles—for dissing Hammer on their 1989 record, The Cactus Album," writes reviewer Ryan Feigh.

BELLEVILLE AT THIRD RAIL REP—Thomas Ross approved Belleville, playwright Amy Herzog's foray into psychological thriller mode, writing, "There are scenes in this production that feel so natural and real that they almost seem improvised, but before you know it, that minor accident five minutes ago is a major plot point."

*The person was me. While I have your attention, go ahead and replace your bookmark for Humans of New York or whatever with The Black Portlanders. It is so much better.