Words and Pictures

Alex Cox is a legendary filmmaker, teacher, and author whose films include Repo Man, Walker, and Sid and Nancy, and whose books include Ten Thousand Ways to Die and X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker...

Alex Cox is a legendary filmmaker, teacher, and author whose films include Repo Man, Walker, and Sid and Nancy, and whose books include Ten Thousand Ways to Die and X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker...

David Rees is the creator of the satirical clip-art comics collections My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable and Get Your War On and a supporter of land-mine removal efforts in Afghanistan. In this encore episode...

Oregon's rich history of filmmaking is chronicled in Astoria, at the very northwesterly tip of the state. We talk with Oregon Film Museum Executive Director Mac Burns about the movies that showcased the landscape, and...

Investigative reporter and Democracy Now co-founder Amy Goodman is the subject of a new documentary by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Academy Award-nominated filmmakers of Trouble the Waters. On the thirtieth anniversary of...

Marjane Satrapi is the artist and writer behind such graphic memoirs as Persepolis, Embroideries, and Chicken with Plums, and is the co-director of the animated feature film version of Persepolis. She grew up in Tehran...

Andy Warner is an artist and writer of non-fiction comics, and an editor for international cartoon platform The Nib. His books include Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, This Land Is My Land, and Spring Rain: A...

John Waters is a legendary filmmaker, author, and raconteur whose books include Shock Value, Crackpot, and Liarmouth and whose films include Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Hairspray, and Serial Mom. Currently, he's...

For half a century, Penny Allen has been making fiercely independent films about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Beginning in Portland in the 1970's and recruiting such young artists as Eric Edwards, Gus...

In this 100% longer conversation with animation historian Charles Solomon, we dive deeper into the stories behind his twenty-two published books, which include Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation; The Man Who...

For nearly a century, the National Film Board of Canada has been a celebrated source of experimental and educational filmmaking, most notably animation. NFB directors have won hundreds of awards, including multiple...

Rapper, cartoonist, and social activist Keith Knight is a longtime fan of the Portland comics scene as well as community radio. He was delighted to make a detour to the KBOO studios during his visit to the 2006...

Mimi Pond is an author, humorist, and award-winning cartoonist who’s written for newspapers, magazines, and television shows such as Designing Women and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Her graphic novels include Over Easy, The...

With the deployment of National Guard troops once again in the news, we revisit our August 2021 conversation with graphic novelist Derf Backderf. Derf's graphic novel Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio won the 2021 Eisner...