Lynda Barry calls herself "an accidental professor," but she began her career
as an accidental cartoonist in the 1970's, when Evergreen State College
classmate Matt Groening published her comics in the school paper without her
knowledge. Barry's weekly strip Ernie Pook'...
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Jan Eliot got her start in the 1970's drawing for alternative newspapers in
and around Eugene, Oregon, her weekly comic strips Patience and Sarah and
Sister City focusing on the then-novel (for the funny pages) concepts of
single moms and blended families. In the 1990's...
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During the presidential campaign of 2008, Weather Underground co-founder
and Distinguished Professor of Education Bill Ayers teamed up with
cartoonist Ryan Alexander-Tanner to adapt Bill's groundbreaking education
textbook into comics form. The result is To Teach: The J...
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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 pe...
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For half a century, Bruce Bickford ran a one-man clay animation production
house, constructing surreal miniature worlds in a cavernous Seattle studio
and bringing them to life through the magic of stop-motion.
Bickford gained notoriety in the 1970's as the fertile mind ...
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Shary Flenniken is one of the most influential figures in the history of
underground comics. Her comic Trots & Bonnie burst onto the pages of the
National Lampoon in the early 1970's, and with its mix of radical politics,
coy sexuality, absurd situations, approachable
...
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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
during the revolution that toppled the Shah and led...
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In this encore episode of Words and Pictures, we welcome fimmaker Gus Van
Sant, whose directorial work has ranged from the avant-garde
(Gerry and Last Days) to the transgressive (Mala Noche and Drugstore
Cowboy) to Hollywood crowd-pleasers (Good Will Hunting and Finding ...
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Charles Brownstein is the Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal
Defense Fund, a non-profit advocacy organization that moved its headquarters
from New York to Portland in 2016. The CBLDF provides aid to artists and
publishers facing legal threats such as censorship,...
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Sibling filmmakers Sarah and Zachary Ray Sherman have spent years working in
the local production scene, and are now premiering their debut feature film
Thunderbolt In Mine Eye at the Portland International Film Festival. Their
work has brought together actors, crew mem...
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