Jim Woodring

So I think definitely Chris Ware, one of my kind of biggest inspirations.

I just finished, it was the first time I was kind of exposed to Jim Woodring, and I just finished the new Quackie book, which is really magical to me.

This kind of like combo of surreal and familiar, and really kind of really weird things happening in a place where, you know, you, you feel very comfortable with the characters, but there's something kind of like strange and wrong in that world that you just wanna jump in and explore.

And I think those are kind of probably the two things that right now are kind of like really, uh, big sitting at the back of my head.

It's like an entire academic book on three panels of comics.

Jason's I Killed Adolf Hitler, Simon Hanselman's Mega Hex and Megan Mogg in Amsterdam, Alberto Breccia's Mort Cinder, R. Kikwo Johnson's Night Fisher and No One Else, Jim Woodring's One Beautiful Spring Day, the second volume of Pogo, Joe Sacco's Palestine, first couple of volumes of Popeye, Tenacious D's, Post-Apocalyptus, or Post-Apocalypto, first couple of volumes

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I read that.

We're going to veer over to the world of Fantagraphics.

for a second because a book that I have been eagerly eagerly eagerly eagerly awaiting for much of this year since I saw that it was in the advanced solicits has finally arrived and that is a quirky little book and I mean that in the physical true sense a very little book is quacky by Jim Woodring.

Um, we've talked about Woodring quite a lot over the years.

Uh, we're big fans.