After the break, check out the NEW episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell!
In this episode Joe McCulloch and Chris Mautner discuss the career of on Jim Woodring, with an extra-special focus on his latest graphic novel, Fran. Lots of references are made to Halloween also, because apparently it's October already as if you needed another reminder that time is constantly slipping away. Then at the end Chris tries to make a silly, spooky voice which is really just embarrassing and we all feel shame for him about it.
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Great episode. It's fascinating hearing your takes on these works since what Woodring does is often so ambiguous.
Posted by: wabby | 2013.10.25 at 01:28
Great episode!, but no mention of Frank's appearance in Moore's 1963?
Posted by: Ryan | 2013.10.25 at 13:32
Went out to buy the book on the strength of this discussion. It's fucking amazing. New Jim Woodring fan right here. Nicely done.
Posted by: Man and House | 2013.10.31 at 14:59
At the beginning of the podcast, the mention of grinding children to jelly under the wheels of your car reminds me of Bad Boys 2 where they drive a Hummer through a hillside favela in Cuba, specifically Roger Ebert's being horrified that "people lived in those" in the universe of the movie, as our heroes crash through them, with the slim justification of a throwaway line that it was where the main bad guy's drug processing was done. Naturally me and my friends would laugh about this, Ebert's terror at this dumb action scene, as well as it starting off with Martin Lawrence probably saying something like "don't worry, dis is wurr day make da drugz @" before Will Smith drops it into fif gear and vaporizes a little Cuban boy's head under the back tire, spraying red gunk all over his stunned parents, before obliterating more families against the greeyul. The real horror of this is that the movie isn't even as entertaining as this would make it seem. This comment isn't appropriate for this podcast though, probably more for the other podcast.
All I know about Jim Woodring is that he made the art for Microsoft Comics Chat which is how Jerkcity is made. Can't wait to hear all about Jerkcity in this podcast!
Posted by: Blorg Fleebo | 2013.11.03 at 23:22
Every episode of this show is a trip to Jerk City, JC.
Posted by: Jog | 2013.11.04 at 16:08