A visionary work of comic art for all-ages! Readers who haven’t discovered Jim Woodring’s Frank stories have a colossal treat waiting for them in this all-ages gem collecting the character’s greatest adventures.
Frank is a unique, visionary comic, exquisitely drawn and so fully realized that adults and children alike find themselves drawn deeply into Woodring’s hallucinatory mindscape. The stories, almost entirely wordless, unravel like a good puzzle, rewarding re-reading, providing an experience as immersive as that first love affair, that first samadhi, or that first breath. Simply put, the world of Frank must be experienced to be understood.Frank is an 11-year-old generic anthropomorph who lives in a force-laden landscape called the Unifactor. He is curious but not smart, naive but not noble, and his most outstanding character trait is his ineducability. Along with Pupshaw, Frank’s semi-subservient housedog-like godling, the two traipse across their surreal landscape, occasionally encountering Manhog, the bloated bladder of sin with a heart of radiance who exists to thwart their prosperity. And then there’s the platonic Jerry Chickens, and the lachrymose Lucky, as well as Frank’s Real Pa and Faux Pa, each a part of one of the great cartoon achievements of the 20th century.
For all its mystery, the world of Frank is a simple, delightful, mesmerizing example of world-building at its most fanciful, surely to delight parents and children alike.
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 14 Classic Black-and-White Stories. Bright & clean NEW copy. "FRANK, and I say this without a shred of hyperbole, is a work of true genius by one of the all-time greats."---Daniel Clowes. "This book is something of a redundancy, as Jim Woodring's stuff is already 'portable,' entering via the eyes, dividing through the brain like planaria and growing new heads and eyespots ever after, guaranteed, for the life of the user. If there's another comic artist alive today who's trying to feel eternity within the universal rhythms, gestures and silent music of the corporeal, self-deluding persona, I don't want to hear about it. Jim Woodring has it covered."---Chris Ware. Pristine Review Copy, unread in NEW condition, w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Awesome, bizarre, collectible. Seller Inventory # RUB1169
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