He lives in Seattle with his family and residual phenomena. His multimedia collaborations with the musician Bill Frisell won them a United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. Woodring is also known for his anecdotal charcoal drawings (a selection which was gathered in SEEING THINGS in 2005), and the sculptures, vinyl figures, fabrics and gallery installations that have been made from his designs. The most recent Frank book, CONGRESS OF THE ANIMALS, was released in 2011. The 2010 Frank story WEATHERCRAFT won The Stranger’s Genius Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for that year. If THE FRANK BOOK still had a bit of uncertainty to its art, its fully gone here: just a fully assured, beautifully-drawn, pitch-perfect piece of work with a wonderful tonal balance. A decade’s worth of these stories was collected in THE FRANK BOOK in 2004. RT DialHForHagai: This morning I read WEATHERCRAFT, and, man, Jim Woodring is just on another level.

He is best known for his wordless comics series depicting the follies of his character Frank, a generic cartoon anthropomorph whose adventures careen wildly from sweet to appalling. This work was published by Fantagraphics Books and collected in THE BOOK OF JIM in 1992. A self-taught artist, his first published works documented the disorienting hell of his salad days in an “illustrated autojournal” called JIM. Recommend Stories Frank Zappa - The Frank Zappa Guitar Book Jim Brickman (Book) Jim Rohn Book Coaching Book - Jim Rohn Jim Fitzpatrick - The Book of. He eventually grew up to bean inquisitive bearlike man who has enjoyed three exciting careers: garbage collector, merry-go-round-operator and cartoonist. 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.

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