![]() ![]() ![]() The closest he gets is some vague, oblique hints in this collection's afterword, but - like those occasions when David Lynch pretends to try to enlighten viewers about his similarly challenging movies - Woodring's clues only lead to more questions.” “Happily, Woodring never tries to offer up his own explanations for what transpires in his stories. “I can't think of much other art that's both so unironically devoted to pleasure and entertainment (in this case, in the form of funny-looking animals doing amusing things in colorful, inventively odd settings) and so deeply, primally unsettling and ambiguous.” Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics ![]() his stuff will outlast all but one in a thousand of his peers. “Over the last few decades, Jim Woodring has been drawing a series of wordless, blissfully cruel slapstick fables, set in a world of grotesque entities and psychedelic minarets: half unshakable nightmare, half Chuck Jones cartoon filtered through the Bhagavad Gita.” ![]()
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