| rdfs:comment | - Jim is a comic book series by Jim Woodring. Begun in 1980 as a self-published zine, it was picked up by Fantagraphics Books in 1986 after Woodring was introduced to Gary Groth by Gil Kane. The publisher released four magazine-sized, black and white issues starting in September, 1987. A comic book-sized continuation, Jim Volume II, with much color, began publication in 1993 and ran for six issues until 1996. Most of the contents of the first Fantagraphics series were reprinted in the book collection The Book of Jim (ISBN 1-141-29836-8).
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| abstract | - Jim is a comic book series by Jim Woodring. Begun in 1980 as a self-published zine, it was picked up by Fantagraphics Books in 1986 after Woodring was introduced to Gary Groth by Gil Kane. The publisher released four magazine-sized, black and white issues starting in September, 1987. A comic book-sized continuation, Jim Volume II, with much color, began publication in 1993 and ran for six issues until 1996. Jim, which Woodring described as an "autojournal", contained comics on a variety of subjects, many based on dreams, as well as surreal drawings and free-form text which resembled Jimantha automatic writing. Besides dreams, the work drew on Woodring's childhood experiences, hallucinations, past alcoholism, and Hindu beliefs. It also included stories of recurring Woodring characters such as Pulque (the embodiment of drunkenness), boyhood friends Chip and Monk, and, in Volume II, his signature creation Frank. Most of the contents of the first Fantagraphics series were reprinted in the book collection The Book of Jim (ISBN 1-141-29836-8). The title JIM appears in all-caps in the indicia of all issues.
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