Jim Woodring

Jim Woodring is an author of Comic S American born the October 11th 1952 with Los Angeles in California and currently living with Seattle.

Car-formed artist, Woodring worked as street sweeper before arriving at a work in the illustration at the studio of animation Ruby-Spears in the the Seventies. In 1980, it started to publish its own anthology of comics, Jim , of oneiric art and the abstract writings which it described like a " autojournal". Jim was published regularly by Fantagraphics Books starting from 1986, acclaimed by criticism, and Woodring full-time became finally author of comics. Frank , a dumb series and surrealist which made sporadic beginnings in Jim , became its most famous work.

Jim Woodring also carried out during a short duration a series of comics for children, Tantalizing Stories , with Mark Martin. He also worked in freelance for stories based on the Univers of Alien for Dark Horse Comics, and adapted the film Freaks with F. Solano Lopez.

Works published

In the United States

Cartoon:

  • The Book off Jim , Fantagraphics Books, 1993.

  • Frank , Fantagraphics Books:
    • Frank , Fantagraphics Books, 1996.
    • Frank volume 2 , Fantagraphics Books, 1996.
    • The Frank Book , Fantagraphics Books, 2003.
  • Aliens: Labyrinth . (Magazine by Kilian Plunkett), Dark Horse Comics, 1997.
  • Trosper , with a music of Bill Frisell, Fantagraphics Books, 2002.
  • Pupshaw and Pushpaw , Close Pop, 2004.

Illustration:

  • Seeing Things , Fantagraphics Books, 2005.

In France

Frank 1 , coll “Chive”, 1998.
  • Frank 2 , except collection, 2006.

    External bond

    • jimwoodring.com (Official site)

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