Words and Pictures

In honor of the upcoming Portland visit of National Ambassor for Young People's Literature Gene Luen Yang, we present this 2013 conversation between Gene Yang and award-winning Portland graphic novelist Craig Thompson, recorded at the 2013 Wordstock Literary Festival. Read more

Portland art duo Jacob and Arnold Pander have created graphic novels, murals, and film projects ranging from erotica to thrillers, always with a spirit of irony and dark humor in keeping with the works of their celebrated father, the painter Henk Pander. The Pander Brother... Read more

The third feature film from Oregon animation studio Laika Entertainment is The Boxtrolls, an adaptation of Alan Snow's whimsical fable Here Be Monsters.  Directors Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi take us behind the scenes to show us the working parts of this 21st century... Read more

In this expanded version of our January conversation with Boxtrolls directors Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi, we dive into more detail about their adaptation of Alan Snow's whimsical fable Here Be Monsters — the third feature film from Oregon animation studio Laika Ent... Read more

Hereville is a place like no other, an orthodox Jewish enclave where magical beings skirmish with a headstrong 11-year-old girl named Mirka.  Barry Deutsch introduced us to Mirka in two previous graphic novels, and for this third entry in the Hereville series, How Mirka Cau... Read more

Globetrotting author Lauren Redniss' latest work is Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past Present Future, a book that combines meterology, mythology, reportage, paintings, and etchings into a immersive narrative about the climatic forces that we all wrestle with on a daily basi... Read more

Ted Rall returns to the KBOO studios with a new graphic biography of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  Drawing from Ted's conversations with Snowden's own ACLU attorney as well as friends, colleagues, and security experts, Snowden is a complex portrait of a mysterious publ... Read more

In this expanded, web-exclusive edition of Words and Pictures, we spend an extra half-hour talking with Ted Rall about his new graphic biography of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  Drawing from Ted's conversations with Snowden's own ACLU attorney as well as friends, colle... Read more

We're joined in the studio by Sven Bonnichsen, Director of the Northwest Animation Festival and President of the local industry group ASIFA-Portland, to discuss the future of independent animation in Oregon and around the world. Read more

Celebrated cartoonist and author David Chelsea pays a return visit to Words and Pictures to preview his new webcomic Are You Being Watched? — a modern take on the Faustian legend, set in the era of reality television. Read more