Suicide Girls has an interview with amazing comix artist and painter Jim Woodring. In the piece, Jim talks about his newest book Seeing Things, published by our friends at Fantagraphics.
From the interview:
DRE: What do you see in frogs that others don't?
JW: I've always been fascinated by frogs and I've always loved to look at them. They're good food for thought. I guess in France they're just good food. They have a lot of interesting attributes. If you have a spiritual event; they're amazing because they'll just sit still as if they're meditating for a long period of time, but they're never out of it. They always notice when a shadow approaches and then they move like greased lightning. They live on the land and in the water. That amphibious quality is something you can compare to the way people live in both the animal and the spiritual world. They're strangely anthropomorphic. They almost seem to have hands. They have faces you can read expressions in more readily than you can read them on the faces of other animals. I don't know what it is but they're easier to figure out than people. I guess the reason why I don't draw people very much is because I don't understand them. I don't understand us so I never quite know what to show. It's easy for me to draw people in deplorable circumstances doing terrible things subject to abominable forces. But I don't want to just do that all the time; I don't want to heap another log onto the fire of "Here's what's wrong with the human race." So I sidestep it by doing it with frogs.
DRE: Would you eat a frog or do you have too much respect for them?
JW: Oh I've eaten them. I'll eat anything. I've even eaten whale meat.
