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).