Words and Pictures

  For KBOO Radio's Fall membership drive, we bring you a special hour-long edition of Words and Pictures, featuring filmmakers from Portland EcoFilm Festival and Portland Dance Film Festival. The Portland EcoFilm Festival's Dawn Smallman joins us in the studio, along with... Read more

  Hollywood Babylon is the new series of 1930's feature films, produced before the censorious Hays Code, that tackled such timely topics as corruption, prostitution, and drug use.  Curated by Chantell Richardson and Dan Halsted, this series screens at the Hollywood Theatre... Read more

  Gary and Anne Lundgren are a directing/producing pair from Ashland whose latest independent feature Phoenix, Oregon is a comedic look at mid-life struggles in the rural Northwest.  Since wrapping up production in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the couple have been touring the fi... Read more

  Based in Portland, The Nib is a publisher of political comics and graphic journalism founded in 2013 by cartoonist Matt Bors.  Originally appearing on the online platform Medium, The Nib has managed to stand out from the field of webcomics publishers by paying fair-marke... Read more

  Aminder Dhaliwal has worked as a storyboard director for the Cartoon Network and for the Nickelodeon show Sanjay & Craig, and is now the animation director for Disney TV Animation.  In her spare time she started a serialized comic online which became a phenomenon and ear... Read more

  The Pacific Northwest is fertile ground for both trees and independent films.  With this in mind, The Portland Circuit (a partnership between the Northwest Film Center, Oregon Film, Cinema21, Clinton Street Theater and the Hollywood Theatre) has launched the Canopy Stori... Read more

In this episode, we talk with Michael Kupperman, author of the book All the Answers from Simon & Schuster’s Gallery 13. All the Answers is a graphic memoir of Michael’s father, Joel Kupperman, who became famous during World War II as the youngest member of the Quiz Kids rad... Read more

  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... Read more