In December 2006 , he became one of the first group of United States Artists Fellows . His work was featured prominently at the Centre National de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image in Angoulême , France as part of the international comics festival held there in January 2007 . The following year , Woodring received an Inkpot Award at the 2008 San Diego Comic Convention , and he was awarded an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship in the fall of 2008 . In November 2014 he received the Lynd Ward Prize from the Pennsylvania Center for the Book , for his graphic novel '' Fran ''
international comics festival
Angoulême International Comics Festival
Jim Woodring