May 2011
April 2011
W. W. Norton: “The punk scene was really small. It was like a secret society, and... →
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“The punk scene was really small. It was like a secret society, and anyone fit in. It didn’t matter if you were a runaway or a graphic artist, or a woman, or a man or black or white. Nothing mattered except that if you knew you belonged there then everyone else knew you belonged there. To me…
“Art is always so reductive, and what I have going on in my comics is so simple and relatively easy to understand compared to real life, which is infinitely complex. So it might relate to real life in the same way that a chessboard would relate to a chessboard with an infinite number of squares on it. It’s sort of similar in some ways, but it’s much, much, much, much, much simpler and reductive and easier to understand.”
—Jim Woodring, interviewed at the L.A. Times Hero Complex blog about his L.A. Times Book Prize-nominated graphic novel Weathercraft
