Jim Woodring
Jim Woodring
James William Woodringis an American cartoonist, fine artist, writer and toy designer. He is best known for the dream-based comics he published in his magazine Jim, and as the creator of the anthropomorphic cartoon character Frank, who has appeared in a number of short comics and graphic novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth11 October 1952
CountryUnited States of America
character america ties
When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.
jobs thinking stories
Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.
drawing stories pantomime
It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
use worthwhile creator
Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.
giving world wonder
Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.
writing everyday fiction
The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.
time fun want
I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.
writing glowing checks
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
tree mystery
A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.
fans bigs
Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.
book hands alternatives
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
drawing cartoon definitions
I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.
body wheels twenties
I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some plain leaf and experienced a very alien, very physical sensation, like wheels grinding against each other all over my body. Odd, not pleasant, but not overwhelming. Someone sent me some extract, and I took a big lungful, started counting, and before I reached twenty I was suddenly and without preamble in a completely altered state.
hero artist order
I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.