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KBOO Radio is a community-powered station in Portland Oregon
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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 Van Sant, and Henk Pander, Penny directed the semi...
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 Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda; and ...
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 Oscars, and become legendary for their versatility, ...
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 Stumptown Comics Festival, where his slideshow and stage...
Mimi Pond

Mimi Pond

2026-01-22--:--

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 Customer Is Always Wrong, and most recently Do Admi...
Derf - Expanded Audio

Derf - Expanded Audio

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...
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 Award for Best Reality-Based Work.  Inspired by the ...
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 p...
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...
Carol Tyler - Part Two

Carol Tyler - Part Two

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 ...
Carol Tyler - Part One

Carol Tyler - Part One

2025-10-23--:--

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 ...
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...
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...
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival has been entertaining horror and science fiction fans at the Hollywood Theatre for 30 years now, half of those with the help of Co-Director Gwen Callahan.  The festival has also been nurturing and promoting the independent arts scene i...
San Francisco has one, New York has one, Brussels has one, and now a group of artists and academics is fixing to open a cartoon arts museum in downtown Portland.  We'll talk with Dr Mike Rosen, Board Chair of the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts, along with award-winn...
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...
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...
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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