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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 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...
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 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 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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