AND IN HIS HAND I SAW A BOOK
On earth later this year from the mighty Presspop.
posted by Jim Woodring at 11:06 PM
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
On earth later this year from the mighty Presspop.
About Me
- Name: Jim Woodring
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
I was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California and enjoyed an exciting childhood full of poetry and paroniria among the snakes, rats and tarantulas of that enchanted realm. I eventually grew into an inquisitive bearlike man who has had three exciting careers; garbage collector, merry-go-round-operator and cartoonist. Some of my work is collected in THE BOOK OF JIM, THE FRANK BOOK and SEEING THINGS (all published by Fantagraphics) and in various toys, fabrics, prints and urban legends. Thank you for your interest.
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13 Comments:
From that picture, it looks like it's about 1000 pages! Fantastic cover.
I think the transliteration of your name on the cover is wrong: shouldn't the i sound in your surname be short? (the image you have shows a long i)
-- gaspaheangea
Chancepress, the book is much, much shorter than 1000 pages long; the pages are very, very thick. Thank you.
Gaspaheangea, thanks very much for the note. You're probably right, since I'm a beginner at Sanskrit. My thinking was that the short i is pronounced like the i in chin and the long i is pronounced like the i in ching. I'll look into it before the book goes to press.
I think you want "िजम् वुिद्रङ्" for your name, exactly. The sound in 'chin' and 'ching' is the same. The long i sound is that of "been". Orthography generally gives me a headache.
Isn't ching pronounced "cheeng", as in ka-ching, with the e sound the same as in week? "Week" is the example of a Sanskrit long e I learned. A Britisher would perhaps pronounce been as "bean" but in the colonies it's usually pronounced to rhyme with sin.
Thank you for the help, I reallyappreciate it. I don't doubt that you are correct, I'm just trying to figure out where I went wrong.
You're right! I meant "bean", not "been", which is pronounced the same way as "bin".
Sorry for any confusion I might have caused.
Hrm. Now you have me confused. I've said both "ka-cheeng" and "ka-ching" over and over for a bit and feel my nostrils benumbed. Though I do seem to remember that the "I Ching" (the book of changes) is long i, then short i. But I could be wrong.
I took sanskrit for a year and consistently got a c.
My overarching point was that both of the "i" in your name are short.
This is a useful resource (I worked on web-enabling one of the related dictionaries at the umbrella site for):
Macdonell sanskrit dictionary
Well, I do believe you're right. I'll change the long i to a short one for the actual book. Thanks a million for the friendly assistance.
more woodring comics? i miss them
Holy Wachoobies Jim! this looks amazing!
like i said.. It better be funny! :)
matt
Must...have...book!
Actually it's a book of Frank drawings, not comics.
Congrats on the new book. And the bloody fists!
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