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Science and speculative fiction fighting in the cradle.
posted by Jim Woodring at 5:23 PM
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Science and speculative fiction fighting in the cradle.
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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11 Comments:
From France to Woodring Monitor...
The space rocket looks like a woodrinesque version of Tintin's one...
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hello... hapi blogging... have a nice day! just visiting here....
manhog has clothes?
He traded a piece of his tail for a robe... a story as old as time.
There has been an uneven trend over time of Manhog becoming more sophisticated, just as Frank has the occasional slide into barbarity.
This story pushes Manhog about as far as he can be pushed and still retain his corporeal identity. I was going to call it BRAHMANHOG, but chickened out.
i was traveling with a group of tibetan monks for 8 weeks in the summer of '94(lollapalooza) and was often wearing the Jim W. t-shirt with the image of Frank riding atop the Manhog's back while dangling a green pickle tied to a stick in front of the Manhog.
one of the monks told me that the image showed 2 aspects of a single being. and that on a good day we were more like Frank, and on a bad day more like the Manhog.
i now suppose that our lower instincts can be guided by the proper placement of symbolic green pickles.
i am patiently looking forward to Manhog's evolution and development in your new story.
Woodringesque - he's still in 'the age of eyes'?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36098170@N06/
Beautiful use of the tropes. Great stuff as always. Just ordered toys from you. Can not wait.
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The precognition tingles at the edge of the possible. Google for norway rocket spiral to find pictures of a spectacular sky - much like this one - created a few days ago by a malfunctioning Russian rocket in the night sky of Norway.
I wish I could post a link, but go. Find. Eschew the rational.
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