Went to the dead-tree comic shop today (Kyle Baker's "King David" is out today!) and the clerk ringing me up said, "Do you want a free Jim Woodring CD?" Wow, did I! Now, I don't even know what this is, but it's yellow and I suspect it has something to do with his Mysterio Simpatico project. Maybe not. The only indication of what it might contain is on a little sticker holding the CD envelope shut that reads, "18-page full-color story by Jim Woodring and 6:43 of new music by Bill Frisell."
I'm going to check this out as soon as I get home today, but I'm just wondering: Does anybody know anything else about this? Anybody know how old/new is it?
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I was good friends with Kyle in school. We still email each other. Is he popular in the comics community? He was good right out of the gates. Easily the best artist in our class. I still have some old stuff that he and I did together, I'll have to go dig it up.
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That's very cool!
He's got quite the reputation as a comic-auteur. I don't know how popular he is with the general audience (whatever that means in comics these days), but he's an artist that other comic artists admire.
The first stuff I remember seeing that he did in comics were weird little one-panel gag comics that appeared in, I don't know, Marvel Age, maybe? Bizarre takes on the regular Marvel characters.
His short story, "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" is infamous for being the cause of DC Comics pulping the entire run of an Elseworlds 80-Page Giant, but was eventually published in a "Bizarro Comics" hardcover. A couple hundred (thousand?) copies of the 80-page Giant survived and were accidentally shipped to the UK and can be found for enough cash.
And then there's his comic version of "Through the Looking-Glass" that he did some years ago (1990, apparently) which totally rocks my world.
He's got quite the reputation as a comic-auteur. I don't know how popular he is with the general audience (whatever that means in comics these days), but he's an artist that other comic artists admire.
The first stuff I remember seeing that he did in comics were weird little one-panel gag comics that appeared in, I don't know, Marvel Age, maybe? Bizarre takes on the regular Marvel characters.
His short story, "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" is infamous for being the cause of DC Comics pulping the entire run of an Elseworlds 80-Page Giant, but was eventually published in a "Bizarro Comics" hardcover. A couple hundred (thousand?) copies of the 80-page Giant survived and were accidentally shipped to the UK and can be found for enough cash.
And then there's his comic version of "Through the Looking-Glass" that he did some years ago (1990, apparently) which totally rocks my world.
Good morning! That's a nice tnetennba.