Seeing Things
If you enjoy the art of Stanislav Szukalski, Ernst Haeckel, and Boris Artzybasheff, then you'll like this book of surreal charcoal drawings (plus a color section) by comic book artist Jim Woodring.
Woodring fishes in the deep waters of his subconscious to pull up bizarre creatures, some malevolent, some benign, and others who seem to vacillate between good and evil depending on how you look at them. My kids are as intrigued as I am about his work. My three-year-old likes to have conversations with the characters, and I supply the voice. $11.02 on Amazon.com
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Jim Woodring has a blog:
http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Tim | May 12, 2006 7:19 PM
i own this book, and i second the recommendation. besides the great art, there are also i believe 4 short one-page stories, which help form how i view the book. its very well done. "frank" is also excellent (perhaps better), but i havent seen any of his other books.
this is an animation of a scene from one of the frank books http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/backnumber/15/sakuhin/frank.html
Posted by: geklj | May 20, 2006 6:08 AM