STRANGEco features } Jim Woodring - Artist/Cartoonist

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Wonderful, trippy work. Here's a snippet from the site:

Jim Woodring is the very articulate, very funny and very bent cartoonist whose comics are the stuff of legend. A featured artist with Seattle-based publisher Fantagraphics Books, Woodring’s comics are surreal, sweet, nightmarish, and truly unforgettable. Having once looked into Jim’s world, it is virtually impossible not to keep looking at the creatures of his imagination as they dispense -- to quote Francis Ford Coppola -- "candies from another planet."

In the past two years, Woodring’s visions have found an even wider range of gazers. The Frank Book, a complete hardcover collection of Woodring’s Frank stories (and for which Coppola provides the introduction), quickly sold out of its first printing. In the world of toys, his Crazy Newts and Imperial Newts capsule toys hatch in vending machines all over Japan and have multiplied in stores across Europe and the U.S. He has also been producing a series of toys with Japan’s Presspop Gallery, including Jiva, Mantra, and the new life-sized Pushpaw vinyl due out this winter. STRANGEco has also been fortunate to produce a Jim-designed figure-- the Dorbel, which has slunk onto the bookshelves of collectors everywhere.

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