Words and Pictures

The National Cartoonists Society has been honoring cartoonists, animators

and comics artists since 1946, and has finally brought their Reuben Awards

event to Portland.  Author and "comics chronicler" R.C. Harvey joins us to

talk about the history and the changes within t...

Portland native Mark Gustafson may be best known as the Animation Director

for the Wes Anderson film The Fantastic Mister Fox.  Mark got his start

sweeping floors at the famous Will Vinton Studios (now House Special) before

going on to win awards for his stop-motion work...

In this extended version of our conversation with Portland native Mark

Gustafson, we hear more stories about his work as Animation Director for the

Wes Anderson film The Fantastic Mister Fox, and about his award-winning

stop-motion work for Will Vinton Studios (now House...

Award-winning Portland comics artists Farel Dalrymple and Ryan

Alexander-Tanner return to the KBOO studios with fresh stories and new

projects to share.  Between stints at DC and Marvel, Farel is publishing

the second volume of his celebrated series Pop Gun War for Dark ...

"Calamity Jon" Morris is an author, illustrator, and designer who has been

collecting obscure and eccentric comic books since his earliest years.  In

2015, he turned his passion into the scholarly and boisterous anthology The

League of Regret­table Superheroes: Half-Bake...

In this encore episode from March 2015, we learn about renters' rights with

the help of cartoonist Becky Hawkins and the late Justin Buri,

onetime Executive Director of Portland's Community Alliance of Tenants.

When local educational group Know Your City needed a medium ...

Animated Worlds is the Portland International Film Festival's showcase for

animated features and shorts, sponsored by local animation studio Laika

Entertainment.  Joining us to talk about their latest films are

Portlander-turned-New-Yorker Bill Plympton (Revengeance) and...

In this encore episode from October 2015, political cartoonist

and international troublemaker Ted Rall returns to the KBOO studios with

his graphic biography of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  Drawing from

Ted's conversations with Snowden's own ACLU attorney as well a...

Harrow County is Dark Horse's acclaimed new Gothic Horror comics

series from the artist and writer team of Tyler Crook and Cullen

Bunn.  Set in North Carolina in the last century, the story follows the

mysterious forces that haunt a rural agricultural community and possi...