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

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

- Jim Woodring

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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 …

- Jim Woodring

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

- Jim Woodring