Jim Woodring
Jim Woodring ( born October 11, 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is an American artist, cartoonist and author. He currently lives and works in Seattle, Washington.
Career
Woodring worked for three years as a garbage man in Glendale before in the 1970s orders for production of storyboards from the animation studio Ruby - Spears was hired and remained there for about six years. He was involved in the 1970s in the production of the film version of Fritz the Cat, but not his name appears in the credits, as he had done the work for a friend representative. As a freelance illustrator and author Woodring remained after working for a long time and was involved in many different projects.
After his work at Ruby - Spears Woodring brought his 1986 autobiographical and first comic series, Jim, the publisher Fantagraphics out. In this series he worked mainly own dreams, which he had previously written down in a dream journal.
Wood ring own work can be largely classified in the field of surrealism. His stories often play in inhabited by a myriad of mystical and fanciful figures and objects strange worlds that seem to work according to the laws of dreams and have only removed analogies to the real world.
Since early childhood Woodring has had relatively regularly affected spontaneous hallucinations, a circumstance of his artwork and the content it represents relevant. Example can be considered, which are top-shaped beings here the manufactured images he Jiva. This has made personally, among other things for its readers Woodring.
His most famous series is Frank, published by the U.S. including several large compilations. In Germany, five books were published in the Berliner Verlag Jochen Enterprises, before it ceased business in 2000.
Reception
Scott McCloud keeps Woodring for "fantastic" and his work on a " revelation" only going to one in a thousand of his colleagues even surpass him.