Words and Pictures

Animator Nina Paley is one of the most independent of filmmakers.  Her two

feature films, Sita Sings the Blues and Seder Masochism, tackle patriarchal

themes in religious narratives, and reimagine them from a feminist point of

view.

A fierce advocate of copyright abo...

Dan Nadel is an author and curator whose books include It’s Life As a I See

It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980; The Collected Hairy Who

Publications; and the recently published Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,

which follows the career and personal life of undergro...

For well over a century, Oscar Wilde's Salome has been the subject of

controversy.  Banned from the British stage for decades, the play has gone

on to inspire a wild array of stage and screen adaptations.

Now, Imago Theatre Artistic Co-Director Jerry Mouawad is bringin...

Spider Moccasin is a musician, poet, comics artist, and

animator whose multi-media event “Echoes of the Grunge Age”

screens at Portland’s Clinton Street Theater on Thursday April 17th.

 Spider is an enrolled Wasco / Warm Springs tribal member who has brought

his poe...

As Vladimir Putin flexes his geopolitical muscles at the start of a second

Trump term, we revisit our March 2022 conversation with British comics

artist Darryl Cunningham, author of Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a

Dictator.

In this hour-long special, Darryl tracks the ...

Peter Flynn is a documentarian and professor of media studies whose films

include The Dying of the Light, a profile of the last generation of career

projectionists.  His latest project, Film Is Dead. Long Live Film! dives

into the world of amateur film collectors, who...

In this 50% longer conversation with documentarian and media

studies professor Peter Flynn, we dive deeper into the world of amateur

film collectors, whose avocation has made them outlaws to the major movie

studios and heroes to lovers of analog cinema.  Peter's lates...

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...

Ryan Alexander-Tanner is a comics artist and illustrator who’s led comics

workshops for kids and adults, and worked with writers and non-profit

organizations for projects that he calls “illustrated narratives.”  He's

collaborated with professor and activist Bill Ayers...

As Syria struggles to emerge from decades of conflict, we revisit our

November 2018 conversation with Drawn to Berlin author Ali Fitgerald.

Drawn to Berlin follows Ali's encounters with Syrian youth, as

she teaches comics workshops at a makeshift refugee center in Germ...