Words and Pictures

Hollywood Babylon is the new series of 1930's feature films, produced

before the censorious Hays Code, that tackled such timely topics as

corruption, prostitution, and drug use.  Curated by Chantell Richardson and

Dan Halsted, this series screens at the Hollywood Theatre...

Gary and Anne Lundgren are a directing/producing pair from Ashland whose

latest independent feature Phoenix, Oregon is a comedic look at mid-life

struggles in the rural Northwest.  Since wrapping up production in Klamath

Falls, Oregon, the couple have been touring the fi...

Based in Portland, The Nib is a publisher of political comics and graphic

journalism founded in 2013 by cartoonist Matt Bors.  Originally appearing on

the online platform Medium, The Nib has managed to stand out from the field

of webcomics publishers by paying fair-marke...

Aminder Dhaliwal has worked as a storyboard director for the Cartoon Network

and for the Nickelodeon show Sanjay & Craig, and is now the animation

director for Disney TV Animation.  In her spare time she started a

serialized comic online which became a phenomenon and ear...

The Pacific Northwest is fertile ground for both trees and independent films.

 With this in mind, The Portland Circuit (a partnership

between the Northwest Film Center, Oregon Film, Cinema21, Clinton Street

Theater and the Hollywood Theatre) has launched the Canopy Stori...

In this episode, we talk with Michael Kupperman, author of the book All the

Answers from Simon & Schuster’s Gallery 13. All the Answers is a graphic

memoir of Michael’s father, Joel Kupperman, who became famous during World

War II as the youngest member of the Quiz Kids rad...

Bill Griffith's remarkable 50-year career as an artist runs the gamut from

alternative comics to graphic novels to such pop-culture oddities as Wacky

Packages trading cards.

Best known as the creator of the satirical daily newspaper comic Zippy the

Pinhead, Griffith has...

Whitman at the Whitsell is the name of an animation and poetry celebration

honoring the 200th birthday of American poet Walt Whitman.  Producer Marilyn

Zornado has organized a gathering of Northwest-based artists,

including Devon Damonte, Teresa Drilling, Deanna Morse, a...

Peter Bagge gained fame as the "grunge cartoonist" during the alt-comics boom

of the 1990's, launching such titles as Hate, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse Nerd,

and Sweatshop.  He took over the editor's desk at Robert Crumb's anthology

series Weirdo, and later became the residen...