Jim Woodring

Across the last 40 years, Jim Woodring has been one of America's most visually distinctive artists, translating his subconscious into compellingly surreal imagery. He has proven himself a master of many forms and media: painting, drawing, ink wash, writing, sculpting, toy design, comics, mail art, animation, stereoscopic printing, autojournals... even gallery work drawn freehand with a bespoke five-foot-long dip pen....

The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 The Washington Post, Best Graphic Novels of 2022 The Guardian, Best Graphic Novels of 2022 Jim Woodring has been chronicling the adventures of his cartoon Everyman, Frank, for almost 30 years. These stories are a singular rarity in the comics form—both bone-chillingly physical in their depictions of Frank's travails and profoundly metaphysical at...