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Words and Pictures on 01/22/26

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2026/01/22

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Derf - Expanded Audio

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2026/01/08

In this 75% longer conversation with graphic novelist Derf Backderf, we dive deeper into Derf's origins as a student journalist; his immersion in Ohio's underground music scene, which inspired the book Punk Rock and Trailer Parks; and his popular alternative comic The...

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Making Nonfiction Comics

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2025/12/11

Comics journalism is a fairly new medium. Many attribute its origin to the work of Portland native and Palestine author Joe Sacco. Now, two comics artists have compiled their experiences with comics journalism into a how-to book: Making Nonfiction Comics. Eleri Har...

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Words and Pictures on 11/27/25

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2025/11/27

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Carol Tyler - Part Two

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2025/11/13

Carol Tyler is a painter, educator, and award-winning cartoonist whose books include Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father; Late Bloomer; and The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief. Her work has been featured in the comics ...

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Carol Tyler - Part One

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2025/10/23

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Rick Goldsmith and Skweezy Jibbs

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2025/10/09

Rick Goldsmith has been producing and directing documentaries for four decades and been nominated for Academy Awards for the 1997 documentary Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press and 2010’s The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and...

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John Fugelsang - Separation of Church and Hate

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2025/09/25

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...

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Carol Lay - from the Archive

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2025/08/14

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...

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Portland Festival of Cinema Animation and Technology...

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2025/07/24

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...

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Toxic Avenger with Matt Bors and Fred Harper

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2025/07/10

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...

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Rupert Kinnard's Cathartic Comics

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2025/06/26

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...

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Craig Thompson - Ginseng Roots

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2025/05/22

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...

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Imago Theatre's Salome

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2025/04/10

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...

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Spider Moccasin and Mike Lastra

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2025/03/27

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...

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Putin's Russia - from the Archive

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2025/03/13

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 ...

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Film Is Dead - Long Live Film

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2025/02/27

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, whose ...

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Film Is Dead - Long Live Film - Expanded Audio

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2025/02/27

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 latest p...

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Democracy Under Siege

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2025/02/13

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 of...

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Ryan Alexander-Tanner on Muhammad Ali

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2025/01/23

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 on...

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