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Ali Fitzgerald - from the Archive

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2025/01/09

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 German...

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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol - from the Archive

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2024/12/26

Over half a century ago, the UPA animation studio was a haven for misfit geniuses struggling to create relevant cartoon films in the face of political and cultural repression. Gambling the future of the company on an hourlong television special featuring their most popu...

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1/6 - from the Archive

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2024/12/12

In the runup to the second presidential term of Donald Trump, we revisit our June 2023 conversation with the creative team behind 1/6: The Graphic Novel, a speculative spin on the real events of January 6, 2021. Writers Gan Golan (The Adventures of Unemployed Man) and Al...

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Words and Pictures on 11/28/24

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2024/11/28

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Dave Cooper

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2024/11/14

Dave Cooper is a comics artist, animator, and oil painter whose graphic novels and monographs have included admiring introductions from the likes of comedian David Cross and filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and David Cronenberg. His paintings and drawings have found homes ...

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Vera Brosgol: from the Archive

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2024/10/24

In the leadup to the 2024 Portland Book Festival, we revisit our January 2011 conversation with comics artist and animator Vera Brosgol. Vera drew on her own immigrant childhood for inspiration in creating the character of Anya, the haunted teenager at the heart of her d...

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Tessa Hulls at the Portland Book Festival

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2024/10/10

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...

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Ed Wood Centennial

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2024/09/26

Ed Wood Jr made low-budget B-movies that tested the limits of 1950's American sensibilities, with such outre features as Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 From Outer Space, and Glen or Glenda. Portrayed by Johnny Depp in the 1994 Tim Burton bio-pic, Ed is now recognized as a...

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Revolutions Per Movie

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2024/09/12

Revolutions Per Movie host Chris Slusarenko calls his weekly podcast “your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide." Chris invites musicians, actors, and filmmakers to choose a favorite music documentary, video, or musical, and tease apart th...

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Bill Plympton's Oregon Roots

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2024/08/08

Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame with pencil and paper. Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,...

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Women in Animation

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2024/07/25

Women in Animation is a global organization which has made great strides in the film industry. Portland chapter leaders Sara Logan Hofstein and Christina Palomino are helping host a panel discussion at this year’s Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology.

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Eddie Muller - Expanded Audio

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2024/07/11

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 pres...

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Film Noir and New Hollywood

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2024/07/11

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 Festival ...

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Harry Smith and Bill Walton

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2024/06/13

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. Ha...

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20 Years of Stan Mack's Real-Life Funnies

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2024/05/23

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 of ...

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Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore - from the Archive

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2024/04/25

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 ...

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Tessa Hulls - Feeding Ghosts

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2024/04/11

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Tessa Hulls - Feeding Ghosts - Expanded Audio

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2024/04/11

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...

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Barbara Brandon-Croft

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2024/02/22

Barbara Brandon-Croft is the very first African-American woman whosenationally-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...

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Joe Sacco: Footnotes in Gaza - from the Archive

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2024/02/07

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...

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