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Jim Woodring
Jim Woodring
American Artist
Born: Oct 11, 1952
Because Comic Me People Sense Time
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics. Jim Woodring
Time Same Thing Alfred Hitchcock Frank Out More Had He Because Ready Said Comics Heard Hitchcock Shoot Same Any Want Working Fun Even Film Thing By The Time
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. Jim Woodring
Dreams Nature You Back Hood Marks Charged Would Shapes Observe Come Like Real Fish Reverie Person Just Patterns Meaning Things Imaginary Lizard Symbols
It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime. Jim Woodring
Pantomime Drawing Tell More Takes Story
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off. Jim Woodring
Time Me Down Every Every Time Everything Tells See Stays Something Write Check Glow Off Either
Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not. Jim Woodring
Saying Time Opportunity Freelance Sense Cartoonists Along Like Makes Lot Any Whether Hard Hard Time
That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. Jim Woodring
Me Library People Architecture Everywhere Drawings See Over Know Course Does Affects Brand Times So Many People Place Paid Homage Special Many Special Place
I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now. Jim Woodring
People Long Become Publish Chunks Would Would-Be Inside Some More More And More Variety Since Term Sort Comic Comics Doing Been Up Short Stories Break Short Stories Either Then Used Graphic Works Novel Now
Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say. Jim Woodring
Say Worthwhile Something More Could Comics Use Creators
When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings. Jim Woodring
World Perception Feelings Chaotic Kid Hung Those Though Kind See Entire Onto Had Badly Like Because Childhood Really Used Disoriented Actually
I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls. Jim Woodring
Single Guess Frank Moral Phrase Never Had Put Hammer Falls Stories Really
Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things. Jim Woodring
Same Thing Everything Hidden Hidden Things Tries Same Which Hard Express Thing Things

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