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Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

~Jim Woodring

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It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

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In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to whatever point you're at. I worried a little bit about people being able to keep the shape of the story in their heads while they were reading it, and not wonder how they got wherever they were.

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I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.

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Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

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I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.

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Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

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A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

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Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

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People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: October 11th, 1952

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