the Woodring monitor

One of our favourites, Jim Woodring, has recently set up his own blog:

The Woodring Monitor

This is what Lambiek says about him:

Jim Woodring, the son of a toxicologist and an inventor, was born in 1952 in Los Angeles. After a childhood made interesting by hallucinations, paranoia and other torments, he visited a Surrealism retrospective in the Los Angeles County Art Museum in 1968, which opened his eyes to the possibilities of making art from otherworldly experiences. Woodring's post-high school years were lived out against a background of drugs, alcohol, underground comix, literature and 17th-century Dutch painting. In these hectic formative years, he held various jobs, including those of garbage man and seasonal worker in the countryside.
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