Portland media artist Rose Bond is celebrated around the world for her
animation installations — large-scale projections that intensify
architecture, interpret history, and magnify music.
Following up her acclaimed 2016 collaboration with the Oregon Symphony,
accompanyi...
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Mike Allred burst onto the independent comics scene in the 1990's with such
deceptively bright and splashy titles as Madman, Atomics, and Red Rocket 7,
bringing a combination of surrealism, depth psychology, and pop culture to
the superhero and science-fiction genres.
P...
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It's wintertime in the Pacific Northwest, so what better way to escape the
cloudy weather than in a bright cinema with your fellow film buffs?
We're joined in the studio by Tracy Francis, Festival Director for the
Cascade Festival of African Films, who is once again brin...
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Local cinema programmers Greg Hamilton and Micah Vanderhoof offer up dark
films for the dark winter months, with appearances by directors John Dahl and
Julia Reichert, who are in town for retrospectives of their work. John
Dahl joins us on the phone to talk about his ca...
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Raina Telgemeier has become a rock star among school-age readers, with her
graphic memoirs Smile and Guts and her interactive how-to book Share Your
Smile. Scholastic Books launched the Graphix imprint based on
Raina's comics adaptations of Ann M. Martin's Baby-Sitters ...
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Little Lulu, the comic originally created by Marjorie Henderson Buell for the
Saturday Evening Post in the 1930's, has gone on to inspire generations of
animators and cartoonists including the industry group Friends of Lulu.
Now, the Lulu strips penned by journeyman wri...
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Kevin Huizenga's comics don't hew to any typical narrative structure. In
self-published zines like Super Monster as well as award-winning graphic
novels like Curses, Huizenga's long-suffering protagonist Glenn Ganges moves
forward, backward, and sideways in time, grappl...
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Emily Flake is an award-winning author, cartoonist, and essayist whose work
has appeared in The New Yorker, Mad Magazine, The New York Times, and The
Nib. She performs "stand-up cartooning" onstage and has collaborated with
Ophira Eisenberg on the parenting-themed comed...
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