Weirld-Wide Woodring

Cartoonist of The Inner Dimension

"The Book of Jim fills the gap between Betty Crocker and Hieronymous Bosch." -- Robert Williams

For the past ten years, Jim Woodring has been perfecting his craft of delivering the contents of his unconscious mind to the printed page. In his Frank comics, Woodring creates and explores an eerily complete realm where creatures and forces interact according to strict laws of logic and personality. Lush and satisfying, foreign yet familiar, appealing yet appalling, Frank is a great big dreamboat of a cartoon book that will carry you off to a kind of heaven.

Frank continues to appear in various other publications, including Jim, Woodring's illustrated autojournal (published by Fantagraphics Books) and The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog.

The Book of Jim is a 112 page collection of grim mischief culled from the pages of Jim, Woodring's patently demented autojournal. Includes such mob-pleasers as "What the Left Hand Did," "Horse Sinister," and "Nidreian Gardener," plus eight pages of award-winning, mind-reeling, world-splitting Woodring color.

Jim Woodring is a self-educated cartoonist who has turned his inner troubles -- and the entire collective unconscious of the human race -- to good advantage in his work.

Jim and The Book of Jim are available from Fantagraphics Books, 7563 Lake City Way, Seattle WA 98115 for $14.95 + $3.00 postage and handling each. Jim the comic book is available at any halfway decent comic book store, or available from Fantagraphics Books; four-issue subscription for $12.00.