Words and Pictures

We're joined live in the studio this Thursday morning by three local writers and artists whose comic titles will be premiering this month.  Taki Soma and Michael Oeming are debuting their new title Sinergy, and David Walker has adapted the legendary book and film series Sha... Read more

For this special membership drive edition of Words and Pictures, we welcome the international writing and illustrating team behind the comics-oriented guidebook Clusters and Your Economy, which examines collaborative communities from Renaissance Florence to California's Sil... Read more

In this special extended episode of Words and Pictures, we welcome the international writing and illustrating team behind the comics-oriented guidebook Clusters and Your Economy, which examines collaborative communities from Renaissance Florence to California's Silicon Vall... Read more

Produced at a small studio in Portland and distributed by local publisher Dark Horse Comics, Mandala is an epic story blurring fiction, reality, and mythology, and crossing the lines between comics, film, TV, games, and digital series.  Artist Bruce Zick joins us in the stu... Read more

Comics artist Lucy Bellwood has teamed up with journalists to report on Islamic environmentalists and the Women of Gitmo, and with modern mariners to tell the stories of life onboard historic sailing ships.  Her new art show "Down To the Seas Again" will open in September a... Read more

This Thursday, Words & Pictures brings summer school to you, with a visit from "stand-up economist" Yoram Bauman, who's co-authored the new book The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change.  Plus, we'll join Gus Frederick of the Homer Davenport Project on a tour of Oregon ca... Read more

New Englander Julia Gfrörer and Portlander Ellery Harvey are collaborators in bringing the art of comics off the page and into the performance space.  The gothic sensibility of Julia's pen and ink artwork and spare archaic dialogue, in such graphic novels as Black is the Co... Read more

This special membership drive edition of Words & Pictures highlights this year's expanded version of the Northwest Animation Festival.  We're joined by Festival Director Sven Bonnichsen as well as David & Nick, the composing team behind the animation-performance duo Billygo... Read more

Words & Pictures previews a brand-new gathering of cartoonists, illustrators, printmakers, and other creators, taking place the second weekend of April at Portland's Norse Hall.  Zach Soto and François Vigneault are two of the organizers of Linework NW, and they'll be bring... Read more

The César Award-winning French film Ernest & Celestine was recently nominated for an Academy Award for best Animated Feature.  Adapted from Gabrielle Vincent's beloved storybook series by Benjamin Renner, along with co-directors Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, Ernest & C... Read more