In the wake of recent book bannings in school libraries, most notably of Art
Spiegelman's Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel Maus, S.W. Conser and Bill
Dodge revisit their earlier Words and Pictures conversations with
Spiegelman.
Included in this episode are excerpts ...
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Only in Oregon: 26 Years of Oregon Political Cartoons is the new collection
from cartoonist and graphic designer Jesse Springer, who’s been
chronicling the unique foibles of statewide politics for over a quarter of a
century from his drawing board in Eugene.
Jesse joins...
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The Art of the News is an exhibition of comics journalism hosted by the
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene and curated by University of Oregon
Professor Katherine Kelp-Stebbins. The show features the work of a wide
range of international artists and writers, from ...
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Kristen Radtke is the author of two graphic non-fiction books: Imagine
Wanting Only This and Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness.
She’s also been the Art Director and Deputy Publisher at the magazine The
Believer and a writer whose work has appeared in The Ne...
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As the Portland Book Festival recovers from the Covid pandemic, we welcome
the return of Aminder Dhaliwal, whose new book Cyclopedia Exotica grew out
of a serialized online comic, just like her earlier book Woman World.
Aminder has worked as a storyboard director for the...
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In this followup to our 2019 interview with underground comics legend Bill
Griffith, we talk more about his remarkable 50-year career as an
underground artist, helping kickstart the underground comics movement of the
1960's with his mashups of pop culture and surrealism,...
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Douglas Wolk is an award-winning journalist, author, and pop-culture critic
who's written about comics and music for The New York Times, Rolling
Stone, Vanity Fair, and The Nation. His books include James Brown's Live
at the Apollo and Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels...
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Mike Konopacki is a longtime labor cartoonist who collaborated with
historians Howard Zinn and Paul Buhle to adapt Zinn's book A People’s
History of the United States into comics form.
Konopacki joined S.W. Conser in July of 2008 to offer a behind-the-scenes
look at the...
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