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Jim V1 The Book of Jim
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The Book of Jim
Fantagraphics Books, 1993
By Jim Woodring
This volume collects most of the material originally published by Jim Woodring and Fantagraphics in issues 1-4 of Jim.
The Book of Jim is a 1993 collection of short comic stories by American artist Jim Woodring. It collects most of the material from the first volume of Woodrings Jim magazine, including color reproductions of the covers of the four issues, plus four pages of new material in full color. It includes an introduction by Mark Martin, with whom he was producing the series Tantalizing Stories at the time.
The cover of the book contains the byline, The punitively memorable best from Jim Woodrings notorious autojournal.
The book ranked #71 on The Comics Journals list of the 100 best comics of the century.
The book is a collection of different short pieces, mostly in black and white. Most of the comics are based on Woodrings own dreams, translated verbatim into comics from his dream journal. The stories have been described as autobiographical, though they are not strictly based on events from Woodrings waking life.
Several of the pieces (Tales of Bears, The Hour of the Kitchen, Screechy Peachy, Horse Sinister, Dinosaur Cage, When the Lobster Whistles on the Hill, Good Medicine, My Dreamhouse) are prose pieces, most of which are illustrated. They are written in an automatic, stream of consciousness style that can be bewildering and disturbing.
