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Jim : Jim Woodring's notorious autojournal.

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL WOOD (CEN)

Edition

First Fantagraphics Books edition.

Publication Information

Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, 2014.

Physical Description

200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Summary

"Frank is, as everyone knows, Jim Woodring's best-selling cartoon character. Jim, on the other hand, is Woodring's cartoon alter ego, the fictional doppelganger who has, for 30 years, inhabited Woodring's alternate universe where shifting, phantasmagoric landscapes, abrupt, hallucinatory visual revelations, and unexpected eruptions of uninhibited verbal self-flagellation are commonplace. Jim is a mind-bending collection of all of Woodring's best non-Frank creative work--comics stories, prose stories, drawings, and paintings, with a new introduction and afterword by the man himself. Abounding in metaphors if you choose to see them and naked self-disclosure if you don't, this volume of comics, prose, and images collected here for the first time is a bounty of Woodring's inspired artistry."--Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • Author's note
  • Jim #1 in its entirety
  • Seafood platter from Hell
  • Two children inadvertently kill an agent of the devil through an excess of youthful high spirits
  • Invisible hinge
  • The hour of the kitten
  • Niffers
  • A walk in the foothills
  • Big Red
  • Enough is enough
  • Dreamcorder
  • A lousy show
  • Particular mind
  • Jim's discipline camp
  • Good medicine
  • Big Red
  • This is the meat
  • Horse sinister
  • At the old estate
  • Dinosaur cage
  • Li'l Rat
  • Jim book of the dead
  • Rolling cabine
  • What the left hand did
  • Almost home
  • Let's play!
  • Powerland
  • Nidrian gardener
  • Looty
  • The Hindu marriage game
  • Quarry story
  • This house
  • The birthday party
  • The reform of the apple
  • The stairs
  • Screechy peachy
  • Vher umst Pknipfer?
  • Trosper
  • Dive deep
  • Pulque
  • Echo
  • A hometown tale
  • Obviously not
  • His father was a great machine
  • When the lobster whistles on the hill
  • Cheap work/My hero is a bastard
  • Jimland novelties
  • The smudge-pot
  • Pulque
  • Pulque
  • Boyfriend of the weather
  • Jim #1, vol 2 back cover
  • Jim #2, vol. 2 cover.

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