Your Uncle Jim's bofferoo solo show at Seattle's beloved Frye Museum of Art closes April 17. Have you heard? Legendary art-world authority Ken Allan, PhD, will give an "informal" talk on the exhi...
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2017/04/lecture-signing-last-two-weeks-of-pig.html
POOCHYTOWN MILESTONE: THE BED OF UNREASON The frightening story-in-progress POOCHYTOWN recently attained an apogee of sorts. Unfortunately, since the contents of the story are unknown and...
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2017/01/poochytown-milestone-bed-of-unreason.html
Just so you know, Weathercraft won The Stranger's 2010 Genius Award for Literature, even though the story contains not a single sentence. This beautiful new edition is larger, sweeter and more...
Every so often it is nourishing to revisit those early, earnest attempts at capturing on paper the incontinent emanations of youth- I am not referring to anything organic- that so enthralled th...
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2015/09/thunder-below-horizon.html
Yes, children, FRANK in the 3rd DIMENSION is finally at the printer! It should be in stores in early January, so if you want that holiday gift-giving frisson, pre-ordering it will have to d...
The image below was painted and abandoned because, like a dead horse at a clambake, it just wasn't assertive enough. Know what I mean? It isn't sufficiently awful. It needs to be really, really...
At this point in its development the drawing lost all meaning for me and I could not remember what the point was that I was trying to convey. The girl on the tip of the tongue, the first of her c...
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2015/08/i-had-dream-of-perfidy.html
Your Uncle Jim has a pal who went to Cal Arts in the 70's and, after receiving his education, went around telling everyone there was no such thing as "genius". I don't know where he is today, but...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/arts/design/jim-woodring-you-drive.html?_r=0
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2015/02/ultra-pos-ny-times-review-of-you-drive.html
Here is a drawing for a painting of an army of frogs convening in the woods on a moonless night. Viewers will have to peer deeply into the varnish to see the details. Because frogs lend thems...
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2014/09/frogs-at-night-drawing.html
Crikey! I can't believe how much spacetime has elapsed since the last post here! The sad truth is that I became absorbed by my Facebook artist page . Also I began a semi-clandestine diary blog t...
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2014/09/back-again-for-first-time.html
According to the Big Bang theory, the universe originated in a cosmic seed much smaller than an electron: effectively nothing. What could this cosmic seed be but Brahman? Brahman has unlimited po...
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2013/07/between-us-we-can-do-great-things.html
That crickety sound you hear is courage being reborn as sheer terror!
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2013/07/show-some-backbone.html
And it looked like a horrible place.
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2013/06/i-saw-world-without-its-shimmering.html
Slowly, slowly the elements accumulate. We will build a better garden. Warning signs yet to come.
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2013/06/silent-but-pensive-witness.html
After literally years of psychological preparation I am able to begin work on a new project which bid fair to rip the lid off the "tyranny of belief" scandal. Watch this space for incremental ste...
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2013/06/after-literally-years-of-psychological.html
A glimpse of OAK , my son Maxfield's first graphic novel, nearly finished.
A narrated video glimpse of Uncle Jim's collection of sketchbook drawings due out this December HERE .
Your Uncle Jim will be at the Alternative Comics Expo in San Francisco this weekend (Oct 13-14). So will the Hernandez Brothers, all 3! Me, I'm looking forward to it. See you there? Eh?
Eyvind Kang, Bill Frisell and your Uncle Jim performing at Invisible Dog in Brooklyn Sept 15. This was Bill's idea. He wanted me to draw as if I were part of the band, interactively. Naturall...
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/09/close-your-eyes.html
The ever-perfect Bill Frisell is playing a number of venues at Brooklyn's Crossing The Line festival in Brooklyn this week and weekend, only one of which, Close Your Eyes, will be marred by liv...
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/09/bill-frisell-eyvind-kang-jw-in-brooklyn.html
Mark Frauenfelder posted on BOING BOING about the FRAN project... you can read about it HERE
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/04/mark-frauenfelder-on-fran-project.html
My! Aren't they FANCY! Rich, beautiful color; soft technology. In short, trmdus. Go directly to Americaware. Pictured above: Frank Tours the Planets, available on black or white shirts.
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-frank-themed-t-shirts-for-spring.html
Just look at this! Can you beat it? Do you feel "esprit" respiring in its depths? Don't you wish you had been present at the creation?
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2011/12/intense-sullivant-original.html
Don't like the booze reference, however true. REJECTED!
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2011/12/old-time-warm-home-rug-party.html