Words and Pictures

In this extended conversation with Troma Entertainment co-founder Lloyd

Kaufman, we feature 50% more fun.

For the past half-century, thousands of film industry crew members and

actors have learned the ropes working for Lloyd and his

fiercely independent New York studio....

Portland's Clinton Street Theater is a fabled community space and the

oldest single-screen cinema west of the Mississippi river.  It's been

fiercely independent for over a hundred years, bucking trends that have taken

down huge corporate theater chains.

Aaron Colter and...

Jan Haaken is a clinical psychologist who also happens to be an author and

documentary filmmaker.  Her films include Guilty Except for Insanity, a look

behind the walls of a hospital for the criminally insane; Mind Zone, a

portrait of therapists with the 113th Army Comba...

"There's nothing silent about.. silent films," says Dean Lemire.  Dean and

a crew of Portland-area musicians and tinkerers are on a mission to preserve

and showcase the classic pipe organs that originally provided soundtracks to

silent films.  Through Pipe Organ Pictures...

In this hour-long special, British comics artist Darryl Cunningham tackles

the topics of economic and political corruption.  His graphic non-fiction

books include The Age of Selfishness, How to Fake a Moon Landing,

Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful, and mo...

From member of the Chicago underground comics scene to New Yorker cover

artist and college professor, Ivan Brunetti has been challenging readers with

his scathing satire and sharp intellect for decades.  Now, he's brought his

theories of comics structure to the mainstre...

In the wake of recent book bannings in school libraries, most notably of Art

Spiegelman's Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel Maus, S.W. Conser and Bill

Dodge revisit their earlier Words and Pictures conversations with

Spiegelman.

Included in this episode are excerpts ...

Only in Oregon: 26 Years of Oregon Political Cartoons is the new collection

from cartoonist and graphic designer Jesse Springer, who’s been

chronicling the unique foibles of statewide politics for over a quarter of a

century from his drawing board in Eugene.

Jesse joins...

The Art of the News is an exhibition of comics journalism hosted by the

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene and curated by University of Oregon

Professor Katherine Kelp-Stebbins.  The show features the work of a wide

range of international artists and writers, from ...