THE LAND OF THE BLIND
From shore to shore, from horizon to horizon.
posted by Jim Woodring at 12:28 AM
Saturday, January 17, 2009
From shore to shore, from horizon to horizon.
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.
Previous Posts
- NOT TO WATER
- THAT ARID MOLESKINE
- WHAT IT ISN'T
- THE TENSION BUILDS
- PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
- HOLY NIGHT
- LOST IN THE SCENERY
- LET PAUL DiFILLIPO INTO YOUR SKULL
- ON THE BLOCK
- BEHOLD THE OLD LAMPLIGHTER
6 Comments:
its great to see your working process. What are the pencil lines radiating from top to bottom? anyway your work is an inspiration! toodlepips.
Those lines are the remains of an underlying composition frame, an ancient device used to very little effect here.
there's something different and special about this one - I think maybe it's the spacing of each individual character from one another. I can't quite put my finger on it.
It's significant that you, personally, observed that, thestallion. This is one of those pictures which thwart traditional composition (efforts to the contrary notwithstanding) because the goal is not to create a guided luxury tour for the eye, but rather a field of temporarily stabilized chaos where the eye must be encouraged to fight the tendency toward pattern recognition and make random associations among the elements until the network of interwoven connections is discovered.
I salute you! Have a cocktail and send me the bill.
Hey Jim,
I am a long time fan of your work, own many of your books, etc. I am also recently graduated as a BA student (with an emphasis on fine arts) from Evergreen (Gasp!) in WA. I am currently interning (unpaid-uncredited) teaching art to a science/art class at Evergreen. Our end goal is to, among other projects, make a comic book about evolution. Your most recent entry, with its pencil
marks still intact is super helpful as an example to the process I am trying to relate to these "kids". I have done some very minor comics work, and am struggling with how to show them "process". With your permission, I'd love to link to this drawing to show progression from pencil, to ink, to color. As a reference to what I do, visit my picassa page
http://picasaweb.google.com/john.teenhulk
Thanks,
John Connolly
been one of you biggest fans since I saw your comics at the old Myopic in Chicago!
Love the three chickens of three different shapes.
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