JIM WOODRING

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Jim WOODRING was born in Los Angeles in 1952 and enjoyed a childhood full of hallucinations, apparitions, paranoia and waking dreams.    In 1980 he began to catalog these experiences in a self-published autojournal, Jim.  Fantagraphics Books published the first of ten subsequent issues of Jim in 1986.  In 1991, Tundra published Woodring’s Frank in the River which won two Harvey Awards and garnered widespread acclaim. Frank’s adventures continued in Tantalizing Stories, co-created with Mark Martin.  Fantagraphics has put out two issues of Frank Comics and a third is in the works.  WOODRING’s work has appeared in Wired, World Art, The Whole Earth Catalog, Print, The Kenyon Review, the Coe Review and Seattle’s The Stranger, where he has a weekly cartoon. His Frank comics have been reprinted in French, German, English, Dutch, Italian, Serbian and Australian Publications.  WOODRING lives in Seattle with his family and residual phenomena.    E-MAIL Jim WOODRING! ORDER JIM'S BOOKS from FANTAGRAPHICS!

VISIT Jim's WEBSITE! CHECK OUT THE ANIMATED FRANK CARTOON "WHIM GRINDER" in Flash4 animation by Jim Woodring. (1.8MB - 56 MODEMS EST. 10 MIN. DOWNLOAD TIME)