Words and Pictures

In this extended conversation with Film Noir Foundation Founder Eddie

Muller, we spend an extra 20 minutes finding out about the importance of

gritty urban stories in American culture and the race to rescue overlooked

films from the landfill.

Eddie Muller is a film p...

Eddie Muller is the Founder and President of The Film Noir Foundation. 

He's a film preservationist, a festival programmer, a San Francisco Literary

Laureate, and the host of Noir Alley on the Turner Classic Movies channel.

 Eddie is bringing the Noir City Film Festiv...

Harry Smith is best known as an experimental filmmaker, but he was so much

more.  He was a painter and collage artist, a mystic, a student of

anthropology, a collector of folk music and indigenous art, and an important

— though unsung — figure in the Beat Generation.

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From 1974 to 1995, Stan Mack tagged along on the adventures of ordinary

New Yorkers, then combined their stories with his frenetic pen-and-ink

artwork to create the documentary-style comic Stan Mack's Real-Life

Funnies.  Now, Fantagraphics has published a collection ...

As part of the 20th anniversary commemoration of Words and Pictures, we

revisit our October 2018 conversation with Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben

Passmore.  Ezra and Ben grew up loving comics and science fiction, and have

expanded both genres to address pressing issues of ...

In this extended conversation with Feeding Ghosts author Tessa Hulls, we

spend an extra 20 minutes digging into the story of her family's

struggles and of a graphic memoir nine years in the making.

Feeding Ghosts is a sprawling saga of survival and madness and love, seen...

Tessa Hulls' debut as an author is the sprawling graphic memoir Feeding

Ghosts, a story of her own family, of survival and madness and love, seen

through the lens of three generations of women and covering nearly a

century of Chinese history.

Tessa is an illustrator, pa...

Darrin Bell has been a professional cartoonist since his teenage days, and

his syndicated comic strips Rudy Park and Candorville are longtime reader

favorites.  He was the first African-American to be awarded the Pulitzer

Prize for Editorial Cartooning, and his debut gra...

Barbara Brandon-Croft is the very first African-American woman whose

nationally-syndicated comic strip ran in the mainstream press.  Now a new

collection of her work, Where I’m Coming From, has been published.

Barbara sits down with S.W. Conser to talk about the comics comm...

As part of the 20th anniversary commemoration of Words and Pictures, we

revisit our January 2010 conversation with Portland artist and self-styled

"war junkie" Joe Sacco.

Sacco has carved out a niche in the publishing world for his war reportage

comics.  For more than t...