INTENSE SULLIVANT ORIGINAL
Just look at this! Can you beat it? Do you feel "esprit" respiring in its depths? Don't you wish you had been present at the creation?
posted by Jim Woodring at 10:31 AM
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Just look at this! Can you beat it? Do you feel "esprit" respiring in its depths? Don't you wish you had been present at the creation?
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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10 Comments:
Wow... Sullivant sure is fantastic. Wonder if it had a punchline at one time. Without one, the intense shadows over the cows heads seem to imply an alien spacecraft flying overhead.
Here is some fun Sullivant imagery I scanned from ancient newsprint for my blog a while ago:
http://www.stwallskull.com/blog/?cat=45
Happy holidays!
Egads, those pelvic ailerons, that brisket! Such brazen caricature of livestock anatomy is surely a lost art.
I was about to say something to the effect of "Sullivant had to be the best animal caricaturist in the history of the medium," etc., but then I thought of Walt Kelly... Anyway, thanks for posting. Although I'd heard of Sullivant and his work, you sent me off on a very enjoyable web search looking for more of his stuff. What mastery.
Sullivant was a huge influence on Kelly. Kelly had the original of S's Naming of the Animals hanging in his studio.
Hi Jim....great stuff. Did you ever do anything with your sketch of that piano player at the Mermaid Cafe in Homer Johnny B.
I left it was it was. I'll be around next March and hope you will be too.
during the holidays, i think about frank a lot. i always wonder if he has holidays like we do...ones imposed by his surroundings, obligatory celebrations and pseudo-festive what-nots. and i wonder how frank would react to them... with glee, or with inscrutable apathy. anyway. holidays. i mostly just double up on the ambien and wait them out.
Jim - interesting note on Kelly and Sullivant. Walt's work was a part of my childhood, as my Dad was (and still is, at age 82) a dyed-in-the-wool Pogophile. I spent many happy hours with Dad's Pogo books... a near-complete set of the Simon and Schuster collections. He still has those books, some of them well north of 60 years old. I was poring over those books before I could even read.
Best, Gryf
That's a beautiful drawing. I don't get it, though.
Sullivant is a genius ... a monster ... I like his work ..
excellent article ...
congratulations on the blog ..
regards
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