Nancy Beiman is an author, artist, director, teacher, and writer who in 1979
became the first female graduate from the California Institute for the Arts'
Character Animation program, and has been helping open doors for women
artists ever since.
As a young animator in th...
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Seattle-based documentarian John de Graaf came to prominence with the film
and book series Affluenza, a critique of the consumerism and
materialism that plagues American communities and the global environment.
He’s now the Executive Director of Take Back Your Time and c...
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Nancy Beiman is an author, artist, director, teacher, and writer who in 1979
became the first female graduate from the California Institute for the Arts'
Character Animation program, and has been helping open doors for women
artists ever since.
As a young animator in th...
Read more
In this never-before-aired informal conversation with Words and Pictures
host S.W. Conser, award-winning graphic novelist Craig Thompson shares his
thoughts about storytelling, artistic discipline, cultural exchange, faith,
and the fight for a more humane world.
From h...
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Film programmer Elliot Lavine has been introducing audiences to vintage
cinema for decades, first in San Francisco and now in Portland. His regular
Film Noir festival I Wake Up Dreaming is a popular event, as are his theme
screenings of subversive science fiction and Cold-...
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In this extended conversation with film programmer Elliot Lavine, we take an
even deeper dive into mid-century movie history.
For the past forty years, Elliot has been introducing audiences to vintage
cinema, first in San Francisco and now in Portland. His regular Film ...
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Aaron Durán is a comics writer, novelist, and creator of the long-running
Portland podcast Geek in the City. For his debut graphic novel about a
young indigenous sorceress, he teamed up with Spain-based artist Sara Soler
and letterer Jaime Martinez. Season of the Bruja...
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Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation
industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame
with pencil and paper. Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a
Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,...
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Words and Pictures celebrates its 19th anniversary on the air by inviting
back its first-ever guest, Craig Thompson.
Craig took the comics world by storm in 2003 with his epic graphic
memoir Blankets, a poignant recollection of young love and lost innocence,
and cemente...
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Ian Sundahl, Tim Goodyear, and Emily Nilsson are deeply committed to the
preservation of physical media — film, video, comics, and underground
newspapers.
Ian is a cartoonist, filmmaker, curator, and the co-publisher of the Vision
Quest free comics newspaper. His long-...
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