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....

Jim Woodring has been drawing the otherworldly, allegorical adventures of his cartoon Everycreature, Frank, for three and a half decades. 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 the same time. Not since George Herriman's Krazy Kat has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into...

Weathercraft stars Manhog, who, after 32 pages of almost incomprehensible suffering, embarks upon a transformative journey and attains enlightenment. He wishes to ascend to celestial realms but instead altruistically returns to the Unifactor to undo a wrong he has inadvertently caused: the transformation of the malevolent politician Whim into a mind-destroying plant-demon who corrupts and enslaves Frank and his friends....

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...