Jim Woodring Quotes
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.
Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.
I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.
The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.
Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.
One of the best memories of my life is contemplating that first finished drawing and realizing I had cracked the code, that I could make drawings like this whenever I wanted.
I don't trust my mind for everyday thinking, but I am convinced that it has one very great function, which is to eventually make me aware of astounding things.
