Jim Woodring
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Jim Woodring (born October 11, 1952) is a comic book author and artist. He was born in Los Angeles and lives in Seattle.
A self-taught artist, Woodring worked as a garbageman before landing an illustration job with the animation studio Ruby-Spears in the 1970s. In 1980, he began self-publishing Jim, an anthology of comics, dream art, and free-form writing which he described as an "autojournal". Jim was published as a regular series by Fantagraphics Books starting in 1986, to critical acclaim, and Woodring became a full-time cartoonist. Frank, a wordless surrealist series which began as an occasional feature within Jim, became his best-known work.
Woodring created a short-lived comics series for children, Tantalizing Stories, with Mark Martin. He has also worked as a freelance illustrator and comics writer, creating stories based on Aliens for Dark Horse Comics and adapting the film Freaks with F. Solano Lopez.
Bibliography
- 1993 - The Book of Jim. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 1141298368
- 1996 - Frank. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 1560971533
- 1996 - Frank volume 2. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 1560971533
- 1997 - Aliens: Labyrinth. (Illustrated by Kilian Plunkett.) Dark Horse Comics. ISBN 156971245X
- 2002 - Trosper. (With music by Bill Frisell.) Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 1560974265
- 2003 - The Frank Book. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 1560975342
- 2004 - Pupshaw and Pushpaw. Press Pop. ISBN 4990081293
- 2005 - Seeing Things. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 1560976487
External link
- jimwoodring.com (http://www.jimwoodring.com/)