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A first collection of charcoal drawings by the acclaimed author of The Frank Book captures the artist's obsession with alternate realities, hidden worlds, and the irrational in art in a volume that is organized into four sections--"Lazy Robinson," "Frogs," "The Visible World," and "The Portfolio in Color."
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About the Author:
Jim Woodring lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife and son. He recently was commissioned by the city to create animation for use in the new Seattle Central Library. His work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope, The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, The New York Times and innumerable other publications, and has been displayed in galleries and museums around the world.
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Woodring's wordless Frank comics are utterly distinctive, not least in each successive publication of them. Woodring has often taken the same images from black and white to flat, comic-book color to three-dimensional full-color in the transition from one kind of publication to another. This album of four thematic portfolios (rather than stories) in Woodring's most highly developed, volumetric style, however, confirms that what he does in color he can do in black and white. Three of its parts contain charcoal work as full of depth and lighting effects as any of Woodring's color stuff. Those three showcase "scenes of sub-rational political activity," "portraits of forms taken by a cognizant object," and frogs, respectively. The final, color section is a potpourri. Frank and Manhog drop in from Frank occasionally, but most of the figures here are, besides frogs, combinations of organic, inorganic, and artificial parts. Wood-ring introduces, sort of, each part with a "memoir" of his hallucinatory childhood that demonstrates that he is as cheerily, eerily masterful a wordsmith as an artist. Ray Olson
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- PublisherFantagraphics Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1560976489
- ISBN 13 9781560976486
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages104
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