Words and Pictures

Mike Allred burst onto the independent comics scene in the 1990's with such

deceptively bright and splashy titles as Madman, Atomics, and Red Rocket 7,

bringing a combination of surrealism, depth psychology, and pop culture to

the superhero and science-fiction genres.

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It's wintertime in the Pacific Northwest, so what better way to escape the

cloudy weather than in a bright cinema with your fellow film buffs?

We're joined in the studio by Tracy Francis, Festival Director for the

Cascade Festival of African Films, who is once again brin...

Local cinema programmers Greg Hamilton and Micah Vanderhoof offer up dark

films for the dark winter months, with appearances by directors John Dahl and

Julia Reichert, who are in town for retrospectives of their work.  John

Dahl joins us on the phone to talk about his ca...

Raina Telgemeier has become a rock star among school-age readers, with her

graphic memoirs Smile and Guts and her interactive how-to book Share Your

Smile.  Scholastic Books launched the Graphix imprint based on

Raina's comics adaptations of Ann M. Martin's Baby-Sitters ...

Little Lulu, the comic originally created by Marjorie Henderson Buell for the

Saturday Evening Post in the 1930's, has gone on to inspire generations of

animators and cartoonists including the industry group Friends of Lulu. 

Now, the Lulu strips penned by journeyman wri...

Kevin Huizenga's comics don't hew to any typical narrative structure.  In

self-published zines like Super Monster as well as award-winning graphic

novels like Curses, Huizenga's long-suffering protagonist Glenn Ganges moves

forward, backward, and sideways in time, grappl...

Emily Flake is an award-winning author, cartoonist, and essayist whose work

has appeared in The New Yorker, Mad Magazine, The New York Times, and The

Nib.  She performs stand-up cartooning onstage and has collaborated with

Ophira Eisenberg on the parenting-themed comed...