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Conversations with pioneering animators and comics artists

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 By Carol Lay,Words And Pictures guest 23rd Oct '07

 

"Persistance Of Kat Klocks" by Carol Lay

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Music for Silent Movies

Airs at: Thu, 03/24/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  "There's nothing silent about.. silent films," says Dean Lemire.  Dean and a crew of Portland-area musicians and tinkerers are on a mission to preserve and showcase the classic pipe organs that originally provided soundtracks to silent films.  Through Pipe Organ Pictures... Read more

Words and Pictures on 03/10/22

Airs at: Thu, 03/10/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Putin's Russia

Airs at: Thu, 03/10/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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  In this hour-long special, British comics artist Darryl Cunningham tackles the topics of economic and political corruption.  His graphic non-fiction books include The Age of Selfishness, How to Fake a Moon Landing, Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful, and mo... Read more

Ivan Brunetti

Airs at: Thu, 02/24/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  From member of the Chicago underground comics scene to New Yorker cover artist and college professor, Ivan Brunetti has been challenging readers with his scathing satire and sharp intellect for decades.  Now, he's brought his theories of comics structure to the mainstre... Read more

Maus author Art Spiegelman

Airs at: Thu, 02/10/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  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 ... Read more

Only in Oregon - the Political Cartoons of Jesse Springer

Airs at: Thu, 01/13/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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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... Read more

Comics Journalism - The Art of the News

Airs at: Thu, 12/30/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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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 ... Read more

Kristen Radtke on American Loneliness

Airs at: Thu, 12/09/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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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... Read more

Words and Pictures on 12/09/21

Airs at: Thu, 12/09/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Aminder Dhaliwal - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 11/11/2021 at 11:30am - 12:45pm
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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... Read more

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