Seeing Things

Jim Woodring's comic books have fascinated me for over a decade. I never tire of reading his (often wordless) stories about inscrutable amphibians and perplexed, frustrated mammals trying to survive in a world in which every object has the possibility of coming to life and either devouring you, cursing you, or presenting you with an unusual gift. His latest book, Seeing Things, consists mainly of surreal charcoal drawings that remind me a lot of the work of Boris Artzybasheff (an illustrator from decades past who drew amazing and disturbing covers for Time magazine).

After exposure to Woodring, I look at the world differently. I see plants and patterns in nature that scream "Woodring" to me now. He opened up a secret world that had been right in front of me all along. Link