Comments on: Pages from Jim Woodring's Moleskine sketchbook

By: Hools Verne

Hools Verne — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@2 Jim has suffered from uncontrollable hallucinations for as long as he can remember. He draws them to exercise some control over them and his life.

By: Baldhead

Baldhead — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

is the fact of the notebook being moleskine in any way relevant to anything? I mean we don’t even know what colour shirt he was wearing when he drew these!

By: Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“we don’t even know what colour shirt he was wearing when he drew these”

If you look at those Moleskine pages, you’ll see a very faint reflection of Jim’s red and black coloured lumberjack shirt.

By: pidg

pidg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To even the balance, I have a Moleskine 2010 diary and it is rubbish. The pages are so thin it can’t handle fountain pen. Hemmingway would have been disappointed.

By: Egypt Urnash

Egypt Urnash — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Whew. I’m really glad his roughs don’t make my brain start vibrating the way his fully-finished work does. Something about those repeated wobbly horizontal lines he uses makes all his art just drip queasy uncomfortableness for me, and I start to be afraid his particular brand of craziness is visually-transmittible…

By: fatwomenhavecurves

fatwomenhavecurves — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

brilliant. beautiful. mesmerizing.

lightyears above the fecal sea of most contemporary “artists,” woodring shines like a beacon of psychedelica (and i do mean that in the most shamanic possible way).

By: David Pescovitz

David Pescovitz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Baldhead, Yes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

someone’s been smoking salvia