Words and Pictures KBOO Radio

 

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 ...

 

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...

 

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...

 

Darrin Bell has been a professional cartoonist since his teenage days, and
his syndicated comic strips Rudy Park and Candorville are longtime reader
favorites.  He was the first African-American to be awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for Editorial Cartooning, and his debut gra...

Barbara Brandon-Croft is the very first African-American woman whose
nationally-syndicated comic strip ran in the mainstream press.  Now a new
collection of her work, Where I’m Coming From, has been published.

Barbara sits down with S.W. Conser to talk about the comics comm...

 

As part of the 20th anniversary commemoration of Words and Pictures, we
revisit our January 2010 conversation with Portland artist and self-styled
"war junkie" Joe Sacco.

Sacco has carved out a niche in the publishing world for his war reportage
comics.  For more than t...