By: whuppy
He cleans up nice. Based on his work, I expected him to be a lot less presentable.
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My six year old son proudly wore his 'Nibbus Maximus' T-shirt to school on monday, and had fig newtons in his lunchbox. I do not lie. (and he was stoked that there was something 'on that blue site'...
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Used to be when you ordered comics from Jim's website he'd always throw a few of the novelty pamphlets in as well, and I've got a little bag full of them, all great. He didn't send the large-form items...
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When did we turn in to such joyless misanthropes? I'm guessing a while ago.
View ArticleBy: Devonian
You know that thing where you look at a book in a shop, decide it's too expensive, look at it some more, put it back, get home and think 'shudda'? Like that with the first time I saw Frank. Only I then...
View ArticleBy: egypturnash
humanfont> The nib as well, is not very technical and lacks the engraving or amalgam of metals seen in higher quality work. He has two nibs for the Maximus. One is brass-plated and elaborately...
View ArticleBy: Ogre Lawless
It is though an apprentice took the most basic of designs and now demands our applause because he has copied the short lived reality TV show Build it Bigger. Not to deflate your 'baggery any, but I...
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scans of the catalog pages and some of the stuff he offered for sale. Slimy Pink Wall In A Bag! Alas, at the time I didn't have $75 extra bucks...
View ArticleBy: freecellwizard
I have a lady-friend who has a giant pen she carries around in her purse I knew a woman who carried a knitting needle in her purse and would take it out and stick it up her nose until it made her...
View ArticleBy: gamera
Grangousier, I remember "Jimland Novelties" being one of my favorite parts of Jim. And whuddyaknow, here's a Flickr group with scans of the catalog pages and some of the stuff he offered for sale. Such...
View ArticleBy: Potomac Avenue
I have a lady-friend who has a giant pen she carries around in her purse...she claims that she'll know the man she is supposed to marry when he pulls the same pen out to sign for the dinner check. I...
View ArticleBy: acb
Am I the only person to parse the title as "Nybbas Maximus", and imagine a giant spider-like creature?
View ArticleBy: oneirodynia
I'm not a farmer, but I kept thinking, "why wouldn't a dip pen work?" It's just a tub/trough for sheep or cattle. How can it not work? I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of livestock. I even...
View ArticleBy: krinklyfig
I was in violent opposition to this comment until I got to "Fig Newtons". They really are terrible aren't they? Fig newtons suck.
View ArticleBy: DU
I am underwhelmed by this guy, this post and Fig Newtons. I was in violent opposition to this comment until I got to "Fig Newtons". They really are terrible aren't they? Not as a bad as Circus Peanuts,...
View ArticleBy: humanfont
I have several family members who are obsessive semi-competitive pen turners. I see lots of pens. I have spent many the afternoon as they pull put their latest creations and tell the complex history of...
View ArticleBy: kcds
This could be the pen that is mightier than the sword. At the very least, you have the advantage of distance, and that nib could probably still give you a nasty puncture wound.
View ArticleBy: Alvy Ampersand
When I think about all the macaroni our respective $5 could have bought for macaroni-less people all over the world, it makes me cry like Manhog, because all that macaroni could have also gone to me. ME!
View ArticleBy: Sys Rq
Five thousand dollars for a pen. Or, perhaps feed a hundred people for five years? Everyone has their priorities. $5000 ÷ (100 × [5 × 365]) = less than three cents per person per day That's, like, one...
View ArticleBy: Grangousier
Perhaps the greatest American Surrealist - at least toe-to-toe with David Lynch. In the back of Jim ( his first Fantagraphics book in the eighties) there used to be small ads for... stuff. Tiny works...
View ArticleBy: sardonyx
I had to read and re-read and re-read the FPP before I could figure out why it was a post. I'm not a farmer, but I kept thinking, "why wouldn't a dip pen work?" It's just a tub/trough for sheep or...
View ArticleBy: motown missile
Good for Jim! $5000 is a small price to pay if it keeps him gainfully employed in his art practice, which I've been following since around 1985...he really is a surrealist, in the best sense of the...
View ArticleBy: egypturnash
I was there! He even let other people (myself included) use the Maximus. It's hard to use a pen taller than you are. Consider the creation of a pen like this in the context of, say, one of Claes...
View ArticleBy: oonh
I've been eagerly anticipating this for a while. Jim's been making blog entries about this project for a bit. His jivas are occasionally reminiscent of quaternion julia sets to me.
View ArticleBy: GeorgeBickham
Seconding the love for Woodring's work, much of which plays with distortions of scale (and all other dimensions). This is in line with that.
View ArticleBy: jessamyn
[comment removed - don't know what the hell that was, but if you do it again we'll give you some time off. as you were.]
View ArticleBy: griphus
If your answer is "It's fun", I will consider hating you after the conclusion of old business at the February meeting. It's art.
View ArticleBy: bonobothegreat
It took time and materials to lathe the pen holder and design/build the nib. I suppose you could sell your computer and feed a village, too. He's a surrealist (comic book) artist. He kicks ass at that....
View ArticleBy: LucretiusJones
Five hundred thousand dollars and five thousand dollars are quite a bit different. Five thousand--sure. Some excellent thing coming into the world is worth that. Not to mention, I'm sure it employed...
View ArticleBy: axiom
Indeed, why spend any more than the bare minimum on anything when there are hungry mouths to feed? Surely you don't own a car or a nice suit; you ride the bus to work and wear rags and donate every...
View ArticleBy: timsteil
Five thousand dollars for a pen. Or, perhaps feed a hundred people for five years? Everyone has their priorities. Truly, I dont get it. Is it supposed to be some sort of performance art? I certainly...
View ArticleBy: griphus
This is awesome and I love Jim Woodring but my god I just can't stop giggling like a third grader who just realized you can make 8008135 on a calculator.
View ArticleNibbus Maximus!
Last year Jim Woodring raised close to $5,000 to build a seven foot long steel dip pen. On January 9th, the pen was unveiled. It works!Nibbus Maximus on flickrpreviously on Metafilter.
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