Words and Pictures

In this extended conversation, illustrator, educator, and author Jonathan

Hill joins S.W. Conser for an extra 20 minutes of discussion during the

2020 Portland Book Festival.

Jonathan shares more stories about his artistic influences, family

adventures, mission to inspi...

Allie Brosh is the creator of the comics blog Hyperbole and a Half and

the author of the book collection of the same name, which unexpectedly shot

to number one on the New York Times bestseller list in 2013.

Her long-awaited second book Solutions and Other Problems arriv...

In this extended conversation with bestselling author Allie Brosh, we hear

more stories about her free-range childhood gleaning life lessons from

wolves, her appreciation for horror and stand-up comedy, her awkward

relationships with people and pets, and her stunned reac...

Words and Pictures presents a never-before-aired conversation between comics

mavericks Tony Millionaire and Chris Onstad, recorded at Powell's City of

Books in 2009.

Tony Millionaire is a cartoonist, author, and illustrator who — in true New

England fashion — manages to...

Drive-In Theaters had become a relic of 20th century America.  That is,

until the novel coronavirus closed down cinemas across the country.  Now,

venerable drive-in theaters such as Newberg's 99W are thriving, while art

cinemas are bringing their screenings outside.

Amy...

Andy Warner is an artist and writer of non-fiction comics, and an editor

for international cartoon platform The Nib.  His books include Brief

Histories of Everyday Objects, This Land Is My Land, and Spring Rain: A

Graphic Memoir of Love, Madness, and Revolution.

Spring ...

In this extended conversation with Andy Warner, we take an extra 20 minutes

to nerd out about independent publishing, cultural diplomacy, raves in Iran,

sex and drugs in Beirut, and the reverberations of the U.S. invasion of

Iraq.

Andy is an artist and writer of non-fic...

Carol Lay has been creating comics — both alternative and mainstream —

since the 1980’s.  She’s a writer, illustrator, painter, and animator

whose work ranges from surrealist canvases to Wonder Woman story arcs.

 Her weekly comic Story Minute ran in newspapers for twenty...

Stan Mack is one of the original comics journalists.  In the 1970's he

left a steady job as Art Director of the New York Times Sunday Magazine to

blaze a trail in the world of alternative comics.  His documentary-style

strip Stan Mack's Real-Life Funnies chronicled the d...

Lynda Barry calls herself "an accidental professor," but she began her career

as an accidental cartoonist in the 1970's, when Evergreen State College

classmate Matt Groening published her comics in the school paper without her

knowledge.  Barry's weekly strip Ernie Pook'...