In 2013, award-winning political cartoonist Matt Bors founded the website The
Nib, dedicated to comics journalism. After a decade of publishing
non-fiction comics from around the globe, Matt is saying goodbye to The Nib.
S.W. Conser talks with Matt about the history of ...
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The Gorge Impact Film Festival is an environmentally-themed event that's
making its premiere this November in Hood River, Oregon, featuring
independent films, speakers, and workshops.
S.W. Conser previews the festival with three of its organizers. Alan
Hickenbottom is ...
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Portland's reputation as a hub for independent animation gains new
stature in a documentary from British filmmaker Martin Cooper. In History,
Mystery, and Odyssey, Martin profiles six iconic Portland animators: Rose
Bond, Chel White, Joanna Priestley, Jim Blashfield, Jo...
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In this extended conversation with British filmmaker Martin Cooper and
independent animators Rose Bond, Joanna Priestley, and Joan Gratz, we take
a deeper dive into Portland's reputation as a hub for independent
animation.
History, Mystery, and Odyssey is Martin's most ...
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The Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology has been touring
the world for over a decade as the International Festival of Cinema and
Technology. Now it's come home to Portland as a four-day event that will
be taking place at the Oregon Museum of Science an...
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What if the pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol had succeeded? That's
the question asked in 1/6: The Graphic Novel, a speculative spin on the real
events of January 6, 2021. Writers Gan Golan (The Adventures of Unemployed
Man) and Alan Jenkins, a Harvard Law School p...
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In this episode of Words and Pictures from May of 2012, we revisit Alison
Bechdel, creator of the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and
author of the graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother?
Alison may be best known for the “Bechdel Test,” which orig...
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The Portland Art Museum's new exhibition "Crafting Pinocchio" takes visitors
inside the world of Guillermo del Toro's Academy Award-winning version of
Pinocchio, created largely in Portland with local stop-motion animators.
Pinocchio Co-Director Mark Gustafson and Animat...
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Musician and composer Terence Blanchard is a two-time Academy Award nominee
for his work with Spike Lee, and a seven-time Grammy winner for his jazz
albums and soundtracks. He's played trumpet and piano with Lionel Hampton
as well as Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and ha...
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Skip Elsheimer has filled up a ten-bedroom house in his hometown of
Raleigh with his collection of 30,000 16mm films, which he screens online
for viewers every weekday. His channel, AV Geeks, celebrates all the
earnestness and weirdness of 20th-century educational and i...
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