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Jim Woodring

Born

in Los Angeles, CA, The United States

October 11, 1952

Website

http://www.jimwoodring.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Comics & Graphic Novels

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Jim Woodring was born in Los Angeles in 1952 and enjoyed a childhood made lively by an assortment of mental an psychological quirks including paroniria, paranoia, paracusia, apparitions, hallucinations and other species of psychological and neurological malfunction among the snakes and tarantulas of the San Gabriel mountains.

He eventually grew up to bean inquisitive bearlike man who has enjoyed three exciting careers: garbage collector, merry-go-round-operator and cartoonist. A self-taught artist, his first published works documented the disorienting hell of his salad days in an “illustrated autojournal” called Jim. This work was published by Fantagraphics Books and collected in The Book of Jim in 1992.

He is best known for his wordless comi ...more

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LECTURE! SIGNING! LAST TWO WEEKS OF THE PIG AT THE FRYE!

Your Uncle Jim's bofferoo solo show at Seattle's beloved Frye Museum of Art closes April 17. Have you heard? Legendary art-world authority Ken Allan, PhD, will give an "informal" talk on the exhibition at the Frye on Saturday, April 8 at 2:00 pm, followed by a signing by Uncle Jim himself in the bookstore... where in addition to books, show-related ephemera can be had.

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Jim Woodring’s books

Average rating: 4.05 · 13,716 ratings · 1,232 reviews · 131 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Frank Book 4.35 avg rating — 2,356 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weathercraft 4.14 avg rating — 1,526 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring, Kim Thompson (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 934 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frank, Vol. 1 4.30 avg rating — 785 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fran 4.11 avg rating — 651 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Portable Frank 4.29 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aliens: Labyrinth by Jim Woodring, Ryder Windham (Goodreads Author), Kilian Plunkett (Artist) 3.82 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poochytown 4.09 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Beautiful Spring Day 4.20 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Jim by Jim Woodring, Mark Martin (Introduction) 4.11 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal (4 books)
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Jim Woodring,

Mark Harrison (Cover Art),

Art Wetherell (Artist)

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Quotes by Jim Woodring (?)

“The 10's(2010) are a baby kangaroo, a bill overdue, a coal chute for staggering millions, a bowl of camphor punch, the fast-dissolving afterimages of a long night's exhausting dreams. Boys and girls, take off those space suits; the boot is lifted from your chest and you can safely resume the search for perfection.”
― Jim Woodring

tags: 2010s

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“She was another world to me; she and the regular world stood side by side and made two worlds. I loved them both.”
― Jim Woodring, Jim

tags: love

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“Dear Supreme Altruist-

I hope you are in a receptive mood.

Thanks very much for placing wihin me the bomb that never stops exploding. Though the benefits have been intangible and in fact I feel that this terrifying mechanism has generally made my life intolerable, I shall never ask you to reverse the situation. I feel I have done everything that may be reasonably expected of me in the way of self-abnegation. However, I now find to my dismay that my lifelong fear of death is beginning to desert me. I believe that this may mean that the bomb's continual explosions may be causing the growth of new slabs of man-bark instead of blasting the loathesome stuff away as it has been doing.

I therefore humbly request that the explosive power of the bomb be increased. Please do not make me weaker; make the bomb stronger.

Amen.”
― Jim Woodring, Jim

tags: fear-of-death

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