Words and Pictures

David Rees is the creator of the satirical clip-art comics collections My

New Filing Technique is Unstoppable and Get Your War On and a supporter

of land-mine removal efforts in Afghanistan.  In this encore episode,

David brings his project How To Sharpen Pencils, a h...

Oregon's rich history of filmmaking is chronicled in Astoria, at the very

northwesterly tip of the state.  We talk with Oregon Film Museum Executive

Director Mac Burns about the movies that showcased the landscape, and the

lasting effect they had on audiences.

Then, ...

Investigative reporter and Democracy Now co-founder Amy Goodman is the

subject of a new documentary by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Academy

Award-nominated filmmakers of Trouble the Waters.

On the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of Democracy Now, Lessin and

Deal t...

Marjane Satrapi is the artist and writer behind such graphic memoirs as

Persepolis, Embroideries, and Chicken with Plums, and is the co-director of

the animated feature film version of Persepolis.  She grew up in Tehran

during the revolution that toppled the Shah and ...

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.

Spri...

John Waters is a legendary filmmaker, author, and raconteur

whose books include Shock Value, Crackpot, and Liarmouth and whose films

include Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Hairspray, and Serial Mom.

 Currently, he's touring behind his one-man show Going to Extremes...

For half a century, Penny Allen has been making fiercely independent films

about ordinary people in extraordinary situations.  Beginning in Portland in

the 1970's and recruiting such young artists as Eric Edwards, Gus Van Sant,

and Henk Pander, Penny directed the semi...

For nearly a century, the National Film Board of Canada has been a

celebrated source of experimental and educational filmmaking, most notably

animation.  NFB directors have won hundreds of awards, including multiple

Oscars, and become legendary for their versatility, ...

In this 100% longer conversation with animation historian Charles Solomon,

we dive deeper into the stories behind his twenty-two published books, which

include Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation; The Man Who Leapt

Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda; and ...

Rapper, cartoonist, and social activist Keith Knight is a longtime fan of the

Portland comics scene as well as community radio.  He was delighted to make

a detour to the KBOO studios during his visit to the 2006 Stumptown Comics

Festival, where his slideshow and stage...