Portland Community College has hosted the Cascade Festival of African Films
for 34 years, inviting filmmakers from the African diaspora to Oregon and
welcoming the community to attend screenings free of charge.
This year's festival co-directors, Eugenie Jolivett Fontana ...
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As part of the 20th anniversary celebration of Words and Pictures, we
revisit our January 2005 conversation with Jack Ohman.
Jack is the Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist who spend 20 years
in Portland drawing cartoons for the Oregonian newspaper before moving ...
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Author, cartoonist, and storyboard artist Derek Ballard has worked on the
television shows Adventure Time and Midnight Gospel. He's also put in his
time as a construction worker, single dad, and all-around working-class hero.
Derek's comic stories have been collected in...
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The New Yorker’s David Remnick said of bestselling author and cartoonist
Roz Chast: “She’s got a very recognizable style of squiggly lines and
neurotic characters.”
Roz's work has appeared in The Village Voice, The National
Lampoon, Scientific American, Mother Jones, an...
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In this extended (and unexpurgated) conversation with cartoonist Roz
Chast, we spend an extra 15 minutes with the bestselling author
who inspired The New Yorker’s David Remnick to say: “She’s got a very
recognizable style of squiggly lines and neurotic characters.”
Roz'...
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Harrod Blank is a hero of underground culture, taking the prankster spirit to
the world of documentary film. His mother was the erotic ceramicist Gail
Perrin Blank and his father was legendary director Les Blank, known for his
filmic studies of ethnomusicology. Harrod ...
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Independent animator Signe Baumane has directed multiple short films and two
feature films, Rocks in My Pockets and My Love Affair With Marriage. Now
touring the Pacific Northwest, My Love Affair With Marriage follows the
misadventures of Zelma, whose 23-year quest for ...
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