13 April 2007
TRIP TO THE ANTIPODES!
Jim will be touring Australia in late May-June 07.
Exhibitions of his work will be staged in the most progressive galleries in Australia as well as launch events being held in some of the finest venues in the land!
-----Schedule-----
Launch Events:
The Studio, Sydney Opera House: 25th & 26th May.
To book: (02) 9250 7777
The Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns: 2nd June
Exhibition: “Combination Theory” @ The Tanks Arts Centre, CAIRNS; 21 May – 8th June
Exhibition: May 24– June 12th: Books Kinokuniya; Level 2, TGV, 500 George Street (opp QVB)
SYDNEY. Phone: 9262-7996. Free entry.
Exhibition: 21 May – 10th June. Federation Square – Fracture Gallery, MELBOURNE
Artist Talk 31 May (Part of Sydney Writers Festival): 6pm-
7.30pm, The Mint
Subject: Stories without Words: Graphic Novels w/ Shaun Tan. Bookings 9250 1988.
For the launch events, specially curated and produced shows (care of Top Shelf), will be offered;
25 minute screening of select cuts from “Visions of Frank”, a collection of wild Frank animations by some of Japans most innovative and idiosyncratic film makers (and one by Jim himself). Each piece is an interpretation of a classic Frank comic and is scored by musicians from Japan and the USA.
A 30 minute musical interlude. Consisting of live and improvised scores to comic strips and original Woodring paintings… musical and visual collaborations and experimentations with some of Australia’s most versatile and creative musicians – JEFF LANG, MICHAEL LIRA and PETER HOLLO (FourPlay).
A 20 minute live visual projection and reading by Jim Woodring entitled Lazy Robinson.
A 15 minute question and answer session with Jim Woodring.
For further information on the show or tour please contact
Jordan Verzar: (02) 9281 4625
jordan@topshelf.com.au
And don't forget, Bill and Jim will be performing again at
the Fantagraphics store on
Saturday, April 28th, from 6-8 PM.
SOFTCOVER "SEEING THINGS" IS IN THE STORE!
30 March 2007
Jim is doing some time at the
"Emerald City Comicon"
this Saturday, March 31st.
from 3-5 PM.
The "official after party" for the con is to be
held that evening at the
Fanta store (directions below)
where Jim's work is still up on the walls,
from 8-11.
- I promise to put the softcover version of "Seeing Things"
in the store soon.
- A picture of our Plexipixel friend's Matt and Vicky's
Pupshaw and Pushpaw wedding cake is on the
March 26th entry of the Fantagraphics blog, check it out!
Don't miss the Pupshaw and Pushpaw Spring Trip slideshow! Kawaiiii!
Congratulations to the happy couple!
(I bet that cake has performed some powerful positive juju!)
7 March 2007
Jim is very busy these days, getting ready for
two upcoming performances with Bill Frisell,
a small show at the Fantagraphics store, and
the proposed tour of Australia in May.
"Seeing Things" has come out in softcover
(with a different picture on the cover,)
which I will put in the store soon.
We still have a few green Mr. Bumpers left;
the red ones are all gone.
Whew! Here are the particulars for the Seattle stuff--
This Sunday (Mar 11th) at 3:10 PM
Bill Frisell and Jim and will be performing
"Lazy Robinson" as part of the
Bainbridge Island Film Festival.
4569 Lynwood Center Rd
in the historic Lynwood Theater.
(Remember, it's "spring backwards" time!)
Jim art show opening:
Fantagraphics store in Georgetown,
1201 S. Vale St.,
on Saturday, March 24th, 5-8 PM.
Bill and Jim will be performing again at
the Fantagraphics store on
Saturday, April 28th, from 6-8 PM.
He will most likely be signing books at the
"Emerald City Comicon" too, which is March 31-April 1.
15 February
Bumpers are here and I am filling orders as fast as I can.If you are in Seattle and so inclined,
this Saturday there is a
Mr. Bumper Grayscale version*
procurement opportunity.
*:Only 100 of these exist, and they will not be released until the San Diego Comicon---this is Jim's prototype copy
Saturday, Feb 17th
YMCA Benefit Bellydance Showcase
6-8 PM
University Heights Center (50th and University Way)
Suggested donation is $10; $20 familyThe toys will be in the silent auction!
17 January 2007
Back in December Jim got a United States Artists Fellowship for his work with Bill Frisell , and he is going to France for the Angoulême festival Jan 25-28!
30 August 2006
Wow! Check out the black and white toys in the store!
The Frank Standette comes with two tails! Read all about it!
In other news, Jim will be at the
Angoulême comics festival
in January of 2006.
If you have any artwork you wouldn't mind lending to the art show
associated with the festival please email him at
jimwoodring at mindspring.com.
22 July 2006
Jim is trying his hand at putting up the art shows----soon I will be made completely redundant. Please check out
Jim Woodring's Ivory Tower Art Outlet!
7 July 2006
Why has Madame W. been slacking off with the website? Well, with Jim doing the blog it turns out I have a lot of time for my other vocation, hootchie kootchie dancing.
Be that as it may, here is something he may deem too pedestrian to mention in the blog:
Jim will be at the screening of the
Visions of Frank DVD at the
Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal July 15th!
A must-see event, Lazy Robinson with spoken accompaniment, will follow that screening.
7 May 2006
Look! Jim has a "blog"!
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/
24 March 2006
Come See "Probability Cloud:"
Jim will be helping his old pal Alan man the projector at the Noe Valley Ministry in San Francisco
March 24 & 25.
His images will be shown to the transcendent sounds of Bill Frisell and his 858 Quartet +2.
7:30 and 9:30 PM.
1021 Sanchez St. 454-5238.
(This is the same show that played at Carnegie Hall.)
The following link has been fixed!
The IT crowd is a new TV show about geeks from the creator of the late lamented Father Ted series, Graham Linehan. The troglodytical protagonists seem to have adorned their office with all the posters in the Jimland Store...See for yourself by following the links from BoingBoing
Jim will be at Carnegie Hall
January 29th!
December, 2005
Hi keeds! It's your old pal Jim, writing this myself so the Terrible Madame can take a little break to investigate that mysterious barking down the street.
W O O D R I N G M O N I T O R
After months of serendipity and debate we are finally sending out the first issue of The Woodring Monitor, an email with links to all that is new in Jimland. Would you like to receive it on your computer? Just drop us a line! In addition to my compulsive "Avez-vous vu mon plus récent ?" lapel-clutching you'll find:
A link to The Little Winter Art Show;
the complete text of the Lazy Robinson speech delivered at the 2005 Mind States Conference in San Francisco;
a link to Bob Smolenski's brilliant animated versions of JW tin toys; and
some extra-toothy sketchbook drawings from the dawn of the Age of Cake.
N E W M S D S E
The Ignoble Innocent has never been as present in the world as he is now thanks to the appearance of the
Frank Toys Boxed Set available now in the store,
as well as the release of the VISIONS OF FRANK DVD, brand new from Presspop. It's 48 minutes of animated Frank as interpreted by Japanese animators, and it's wild! Read a full description of this energetic disk in the store.
Also not to be missed is THE LUTE STRING, an all-new 45-page squarebound crisp-covered Frank comic book, also from Presspop; details also in the store.
Until recently the only place a person could see the two large charcoal drawingsThe Holy Land and First Day on the Job has been in the rather small pages of SEEING THINGS; but now we have beautiful, full-size reproductions of these elaborately contrived anecdotal pictures. Where? Why, in the store!
August, 2005
New art show is HERE!
Jim will be in LA at Golden Apple Comics on September 10th for an event regarding the release of the Ramones boxed set. Come by and say hi!
If you want to be on our UPDATED (due to a heinous malfunction of our address book, thanks, Netscape!) mailing list please email
(You can't click on that address above---you will actually have to hand-type it into your email program because of our ongoing spam defense, sorry.
Speaking of spam, remember to authorize madamepupshaw's emails, or you might not get them.)
In heavy rotation at the Woodring household is this GREAT "godfathers of punk" box set from Rhino Records.
(That's our grandniece Olivia as delighted teen and friend Tom Dougherty as scowling dad):
Coming this fall from Presspop!
FRANK TOYS!!
We have the (not for sale) prototypes and they are beautiful!
More Presspop projects also coming soon:
A DVD of Frank animation and a new Frank story starring Pupshaw and Pushpaw!
Pupshaw and Pushpaw fit together, they are not one toy.
25 May 2005
¡Alerta!
I've been so dang busy with this bookselling thing* I forgot to mention:
Jim will be at the
"Mind States Conference"
at the
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
San Francisco, CA
Saturday, May 28th
9:05-9:25 PM
What it is:
Lucky admittees will be treated to
"Lazy Robinson," a sequence of charcoal drawings (seen in a different context in Mysterio Simpatico) accompanied by a consciousness-expanding exegesis delivered on the spot by Jay Dubya himself.
Details at mindstates.org
Also:
Hear the dulcet tones of the Jimster on KUOW FM 94.9 (Seattle) as he expounds on his latest opus.
Friday May 27th, 2 PM
(Or listen via their internet sister station, KUOW2, Friday at 10PM.)
*I also forgot to put here that Seeing Things is out!
10 Mar 2005
Confidence Bird Print now available at pressureprinting.com!
Get your mitts on one of the few prints of this powerful puzzle-picture and thus amaze your friends, destroy your enemies, and ultimately, cause your descendents to bless you for your perspicacity!*
*: Results may vary; consult your oracle for details.
4 Feb 2005
Attention, you stronger and more unflappable denizens of Seattle and environs: Jim will be at the
"Emerald City Comicon" this Saturday (2/5) from 3-4 or so, along with Misters Peter Bagge and Marc Bell.
At the Fantagraphics table, naturally. Come on down if you're fan enough.
Feb 2005
Happy Groundhog Day!
(A number of news item here, just keep scrollin' along...)
Guess who saw her shadow today? That means six more weeks of winter! Send us your Pupshaw photos and I will put 'em in the
Pupshaw Photo Album. Ain't she a beaut? Some are still available from the first production run, please contact Maki at Presspop for details.
We have Giclée prints of "The Legend" available, read all about them here.
"Seeing Things," Jim's new book, is at the printer!
27 November 2004
Finally! The art show! Is up!
Sorry it took so long but there was a period of about 2 weeks there when I was good for nothing but snarling...starting to feel better though...
We have a poster for said show, FREE with art purchase, $20 without.
We are about to offer a limited-edition giclée print of this image
A new Pressure Print is about to pop!
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is putting on an exhibition of work from the artists featured in the comics issue of McSweeney's, including you-know-who.
Look at the cover of the The New Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Stories:
There is an interesting essay on Jim's work in the new book "Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers."
That's all for now, whew!
27 October 2004
Happy Halloween!
...to those of you who do not have the misfortune to live in the benighted areas where MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY is being banned...
Jim wants to postpone the art show until after the election since that's all that anybody can think about right now.
He's working furiously on his next book, Seeing Things, a book of drawings and paintings, with text, to be published late this year or early 2005.
Don't forget to vote!
19 October 2004
There is an interesting JW profile on Strangeco.com
More housekeeping news: I cleaned up the home page a little
and am re-designing the whole site
but that won't be finished until after the new art for sale goes up
in the next week or so.
If you want to be on the mailing list for the messages I send out for new art shows, please email jimwoodring at mindspring.com.
13 October 2004
Pupshaw and Pushpaw books are back in the store.
We have seen sculpts of the Pupshaw figure available to those
who buy the book---she will be a awe-inspiring presence in any setting!
Get 'em while you can,
LLLLLL!
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