Words and Pictures

  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,... Read more

  Women in Animation is a global organization which has made great strides in the film industry.  Portland chapter leaders Sara Logan Hofstein and Christina Palomino are helping host a panel discussion at this year’s Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology. Read more

  Eddie Muller is the Founder and President of The Film Noir Foundation.  He's a film preservationist, a festival programmer, a San Francisco Literary Laureate, and the host of Noir Alley on the Turner Classic Movies channel.  Eddie is bringing the Noir City Film Festival ... Read more

  In this extended conversation with Film Noir Foundation Founder Eddie Muller, we spend an extra 20 minutes finding out about the importance of gritty urban stories in American culture and the race to rescue overlooked films from the landfill. Eddie Muller is a film pres... Read more

  Harry Smith is best known as an experimental filmmaker, but he was so much more.  He was a painter and collage artist, a mystic, a student of anthropology, a collector of folk music and indigenous art, and an important — though unsung — figure in the Beat Generation. Ha... Read more

  From 1974 to 1995, Stan Mack tagged along on the adventures of ordinary New Yorkers, then combined their stories with his frenetic pen-and-ink artwork to create the documentary-style comic Stan Mack's Real-Life Funnies.  Now, Fantagraphics has published a collection of ... Read more

  As part of the 20th anniversary commemoration of Words and Pictures, we revisit our October 2018 conversation with Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore.  Ezra and Ben grew up loving comics and science fiction, and have expanded both genres to address pressing issues of ... Read more

  Tessa Hulls' debut as an author is the sprawling graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts, a story of her own family, of survival and madness and love, seen through the lens of three generations of women and covering nearly a century of Chinese history. Tessa is an illustrator, pa... Read more

  In this extended conversation with Feeding Ghosts author Tessa Hulls, we spend an extra 20 minutes digging into the story of her family's struggles and of a graphic memoir nine years in the making. Feeding Ghosts is a sprawling saga of survival and madness and love, seen... Read more