When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders. — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so.… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“The 10's(2010) are a baby kangaroo, a bill overdue, a coal chute for staggering millions, a bowl of camphor punch, the fast-dissolving afterimages of… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great. — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
