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Jim Woodring
Born
James William Woodring
(1952-10-11) October 11, 1952 (age 71)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality
American
Occupation(s)
Cartoonist, fine artist, writer, toy designer
Notable work
Jim Frank Microsoft Comic Chat
Spouse
Mary Woodring
Website
jimwoodring.com
James William Woodring (born October 11, 1952) is an American cartoonist, fine artist, writer and toy designer. He is best known for the dream-based comics he published in his magazine Jim, and as the creator of the anthropomorphic cartoon character Frank, who has appeared in a number of short comics and graphic novels.
Since he was a child, Woodring has experienced hallucinatory "apparitions", which have inspired much of his surreal work. He keeps an "autojournal" of his dreams, some of which have formed the basis of some of his comics. His most famous creation is fictional—the pantomime comics set in the universe he calls the Unifactor, usually featuring Frank. These stories incorporate a highly personal symbolism largely inspired by Woodring's belief in Vedanta from Hindu philosophy. He also does a large amount of surrealist painting, and has been the writer on a number of comics from licensed franchises published by Dark Horse and others.
Woodring identified Bimbo's Initiation as "one of the things that laid the foundation for my life's philosophy."[1]
Woodring has won or been nominated for a number of awards. He placed twice on The Comics Journal's list of the 100 best comics of the century, with the Frank stories ranked #55, and The Book of Jim ranked #71.
^Groth, Gary. "Jim Woodring Interview". The Comics Journal #164 (December 1993), p. 83.
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Animals is a graphic novel by American artist JimWoodring published on June 8, 2011. The book is Woodring's second book-length comic set in his fictional...
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Sundance Film Festival. His feature documentary about JimWoodring, The Illumination of JimWoodring, premiered on Comic Book Resources online in 2020. Brandt's...
comic characters and backgrounds were initially created by comic artist JimWoodring. Later, tools became available that allowed user-created characters and...
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Haspiel and Josh Neufeld. Other cartoonists who worked with him include JimWoodring, Chester Brown, Alison Bechdel, Gilbert Hernandez, Eddie Campbell, David...
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American cartoonist JimWoodring, featuring his best-known characters Frank, Manhog and Whim. While Frank stars in most of Woodring's stories set in the...
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