Words and Pictures

John Fugelsang is a comedian, actor, writer, and broadcaster.  He’s been

featured in the road-trip film Dream On, performed Off-Broadway and all over

cable TV, and been a contributor to Current TV and HuffPost.  Since 2015

he’s been hosting the progressive talk show T...

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival has been entertaining horror and science

fiction fans at the Hollywood Theatre for 30 years now, half of those with

the help of Co-Director Gwen Callahan.  The festival has

also been nurturing and promoting the independent arts scene i...

San Francisco has one, New York has one, Brussels has one, and now a group

of artists and academics is fixing to open a cartoon arts museum in

downtown Portland.  We'll talk with Dr Mike Rosen, Board Chair of the

Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts, along with award-winn...

Carol Lay has been creating comics — both alternative and mainstream —

since the 1980’s.  She’s a writer, illustrator, painter, and animator

whose work ranges from surrealist canvases to Wonder Woman story arcs.

 Her weekly comic Story Minute ran in newspapers for twe...

The annual Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology first landed at

Portland's Oregon Museum of Science and Industry back in 2023, and has

since become a hub for artists, directors, and audiences.  Marisa Cohen

and Peter Alexander are the co-directors of the festi...

Award winning writer Matt Bors and artist Fred Harper team up to breathe new

life into the 1980's film franchise The Toxic Avenger.  Based on the

satirical movies, animated series, and stage play, The Toxic Avenger blasts

into the 21st century, armed only with his tut...

Rupert Kinnard has been drawing comics for fifty years, while nurturing his

side gigs as a designer, art director, and community activist.  His

characters The Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé were the first queer

African-American superheroes — long before DC and Ma...

Ann Telnaes has won the Herblock Prize, the Reuben Award, and the Pulitzer

Prize for her political cartoons.  Recently, she left the Washington Post

after 16 years when the paper spiked her cartoon depicting billionaires

bowing down to Trump.  Now Ann is at the center...

Craig Thompson burst onto the comics scene in 2003 with his graphic memoir

Blankets, which won multiple Harvey, Eisner, and Ignatz awards.  Blankets

was followed up by the travelogue Carnet de Voyage, and the graphic novels

Habibi and Space Dumplins.

Now, Craig is ba...

Terry LaBan is a comics writer and artist whose titles have included

Unsupervised Existence, Cud Comics, and The Dreaming.  He’s collaborated

with some of the top names in the alternative and mainstream comics

industries, and he teamed up with his wife Patty to create...