Words and Pictures

Gail Noonan's short films celebrate human relations and the natural

world with a sweeping range of artistic techniques, from collage to

stop-motion animation.  Her work cuts against the grain with humor and

heart, tackling themes of justice and liberation, poetry and sex...

In this extended conversation with animator Gail Noonan, S.W. Conser asks

about the early artistic adventures with the Winnipeg Film Group that helped

spark Gail's four-decade-long career in the world of Canadian independent

film and led to her recent retrospective at Po...

Tom Gauld is best known to Americans for his droll and iconic cartoons in The

New Yorker and The Guardian where literature and mythology get mashed up

with pop culture.  But he's also the author of such imaginative graphic

novels as Goliath, Hunter and Painter, and The G...

Words and Pictures kicks off its fifteenth season on the air at the Wordstock

Literary Festival, where we're joined by graphic novelist Gabrielle Bell.

 Best known for her diary comics Lucky and The Voyeurs, Gabrielle has also

teamed up with filmmaker Michel Gondry to cr...

From its humble beginnings as Will Vinton Studios in the 1970's, Portland's

Laika Entertainment has become one of the top studios in the world for

stop-motion animation, producing the feature films Coraline, Paranorman, The

Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings.  Now,...

In this expanded version of our visit to the Portland Art Museum, we take a

more leisurely look at the exhibition Animating Life: The Art, Science, and

Wonder of Laika.

Join host S.W. Conser, and find out about the creative process behind the

screen from Laika creatives...

In this encore episode, we're joined by Kathy Zielinski, the pioneering

artist and filmmaker who's been called "The Queen of Animated Villains"

for helping bring to life such characters as Ursula the Sea Witch in The

Little Mermaid and Jafar in Aladdin.

Wbile visiting P...

North of Blue is animator Joanna Priestley's first feature film, a deep dive

into abstract imagery inspired by her winter sojourn in the Yukon at

the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture.  Joanna is joined in the studio

by frequent collaborator Jamie Haggerty, who creat...

Summertime is not traditionally the season for animation festivals, but two

grassroots events are setting out to buck the trend.

We're joined by Overlapping Action Mini-Festival curator Ben Chapin, who is

bringing his bi-coastal traveling show to the Po'Boy Art Space in ...

Digital technology is making animation and comics more immersive, and this

month's guests are working at the forefront of the movement.

Jeremy Rotsztain is creating an audio-visual experience to take place in

Portland's Academy Theater.  Inspired by Frederik Kiesler's hi...