Jim

Informationen zum Autor Jim Woodring lives on Vashon Island in Washington State's Puget Sound with his wife, Mary. The recipient of numerous award -- including The Stranger's Genius Award for Literature -- he is an animator and a fine artist as well as a cartoonist. Klappentext Collects Jim Woodring's non-Frank comics work; stars "Jim." Zusammenfassung Frank is! as everyone knows! Jim Woodringâ??s best-selling cartoon character. Jim! on the other hand! is Woodringâ??s cartoon alter ego! the fictional doppelganger who has for 30 years inhabited Woodringâ??s alternate universe where shifting! phantasmagoric landscapes! abrupt! hallucinatory visual revelations! and unexpected eruptions of uninhibited verbal self-flagellation are commonplace. Jim is a mind-bending collection of all of Woodringâ??s best non-Frank creative work â?" comics stories! prose stories! drawings! and paintings! with a new introduction and afterword by the man himself. Abounding in metaphors if you choose to see them and naked self-disclosure if you donâ??t! this volume of comics! prose! and images â?"collected here for the first time and including an all-new 24-page storyâ?" is a bounty of Woodringâ??s inspired artistry.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Woodring, Jim Woodring
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2014
• EAN: 9781606997529
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-752-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 220 mm x 288 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, Graphic Novels, Graphic novel & Manga artwork, Graphic novel and Manga artwork, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions