Why place a cartoon arts museum in Portland, Oregon?

From individual artists and collective studios to major publishers and animation studios, from self-published zines and webcomics to bestselling graphic novels and major motion pictures, the Pacific Northwest has an incredible arts culture and is recognized as one of the most vital comics hubs in the United States. Portland, the future home of the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts, may have the highest population of professional cartoonists per capita of any major city on Earth, and its status as a cartoon capital has grown steadily since the early 2000s.