Bill Griffith's remarkable 50-year career as an artist runs the gamut from
alternative comics to graphic novels to such pop-culture oddities as Wacky
Packages trading cards.
Best known as the creator of the satirical daily newspaper comic Zippy the
Pinhead, Griffith has...
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Whitman at the Whitsell is the name of an animation and poetry celebration
honoring the 200th birthday of American poet Walt Whitman. Producer Marilyn
Zornado has organized a gathering of Northwest-based artists,
including Devon Damonte, Teresa Drilling, Deanna Morse, a...
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Peter Bagge gained fame as the "grunge cartoonist" during the alt-comics boom
of the 1990's, launching such titles as Hate, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse Nerd,
and Sweatshop. He took over the editor's desk at Robert Crumb's anthology
series Weirdo, and later became the residen...
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In this extended online-only conversation, we hear many more rollicking
stories about
Peter Bagge gained fame as the "grunge cartoonist" during the alt-comics
boom of the 1990's, launching such titles as Hate, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse
Nerd, and Sweatshop. He took over th...
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Portland Cable Access at the end of the 20th century gained a reputation for
creativity and outrageousness, featuring such characters as "Working" Kirk
Reeves, Jim Spagg, and Stephanie ("Where's the Art?") Pierce. And Oregon's
uniquely strong freedom of expression laws ...
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A city-wide celebration of comics first took place in Portland in the spring
of 2009, when then-City Commissioner Sam Adams declared April "Comic Book
Month." For this 10th anniversary tribute, we'll find out about events, new
releases, and participatory activities thro...
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Nora Colie of the Portland Oregon Women's Film Fest joins us in the studio
to preview this year's POWfest, along with filmmakers Marne Lucas (Haute
Flash) and Aubrey Peeples (Decadeless).
We're also joined by actor/director Jerry Bell Jr, whose documentary Red
White & B...
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Fresh out of college in 1969, Denis Kitchen started publishing underground
comics from a rented office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Fifty years later,
Kitchen is recognized as one of the leading authorities on graphic novels
and alternative media, and has teamed up with per...
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In this extended online-only conversation, we hear many more rollicking
stories about the underground comics industry and its
characters from leading authority Denis Kitchen. Denis sat down
with S.W. Conser in the KBOO studios during a recent Portland visit in
support ...
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The Portland International Film Festival is a venue for showcasing not just
visiting directors but local filmmakers as well. We're joined by two
celebrated Portland documentarians: Irene Taylor Brodsky, the director
of Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, and ...
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