When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.
I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a men… - Jim Woodring
I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a men…
- Jim Woodring
I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had a… - Jim Woodring
I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had a…
When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the … - Jim Woodring
When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the …
Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great. - Jim Woodring
Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a liz… - Jim Woodring
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a liz…
It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime. - Jim Woodring
It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good, if I can become an obscure cult artist… - Jim Woodring
When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good, if I can become an obscure cult artist…
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. - Jim Woodring
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interes… - Jim Woodring
Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interes…
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