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Title: The Frank Book by Jim Woodring ISBN: 1-56097-534-2 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My new favorite comic
Comment: I was just recently pulled from the dregs of mainstream superhero comics in the last 2 years. It was a slow and painful operation, but eventaully my eyes were opened to how stupid they really are. So, of course, i got into indy comics, where the art is not only categorically better but the stories are...god, don't even get me started. We're not talking about me or indy comics in general here. We're talking about the remarkable Jim Woodring's FRANK. Woodring is a master artist who pulls tricks out of his hat that no one's ever even thought of before; his inventive use of pressure on his pen to create the effects of light and dark, not mention every texture imaginable, is absolutely astonishing. Every panel of every page looks so finished you'd think there was an assembly line working on this. Nope; it's just Woodring. If his original black and white pages weren't enough, his full-painted comics and covers convey a measure of patience and diligence unheard of even in most fine art. His expressive characters are all wonderful to look at, because nothing like any of them has ever been seen before. Now, Woodring's art could be praised so many times in so many different ways that Amazon would collapse, but his stories deserve just as much recognition. Every issue is breathtakingly creative, and the plots are completely oringinal. Somehow, despite the fact that they're all silent, a connection is made with the characters on a deep, intense level. Frank, curious and innocent (but not noble), Pupshaw, dependent and loyal, Whim, vindictive and conniving, and every other character within are perfectly fleshed out. Woodring is subtly and bombastically brilliant; you barely even notice that the book is silent or that you're reading about a cat-ferret-beaver. Thing. Frank is a generic anthropomorph, resembling a lot of things but being none of them. FRANK is as surreal as any Dali piece, and in some ways, on par with them in sheer originality and quality. the stories are bizzare, fluid, funny, disturbing, unsettling, lively and like nothing i've ever seen before. Collected in this handsome hardcover volume (which means no more scrabbling for individual issues), Frank is a dream-come-true in so many ways. The book the favorite of all the comics i own, because it cannot be called similar to anything else. Thank god for Jim Woodring; the comics world will be barren and lonely without him.
Rating: 5
Summary: incredible visionary antics
Comment: Jim Woodring's 'Frank' comics put him in the cartoon visionary company of such luminaries as Crumb,Bode,Bosch,Alex Grey,and Rick Griffin. His colorful psychedelic landscapes give way to cautionary tales of human nature,and often as act as dialogue-less parables ranging from the very pithy to the very oblique. Frank, the blandly inquisitive catlike/rodent-like critter is often accompanied by the bizarre but fiercely loyal and protective 'Pupshaw", a creature looking like a cross between a raccoon and a birdhouse.
Some adventures involve 'Manhog', the loathsome creature that embodies the worst traits of both species. And,mysteriously, floating through space and out of dying creatures mouths(!) are the Jivas, ornate spinning-top like entities representing the Tibetan Buddhist concept of souls inbetween incarnations. Woodring presents an absolutely timeless and original vision , meticulously and lovingly rendered,in turns spiritual,brutal,and always fascinating. Essential stuff!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Nape-Tickling, Head-Bending Graphic Parables!
Comment: Harrowing, eerie, densely suggestive, handsomely rendered, bizarrely world-wise and funny as hell! These are symbolic fables, mostly mute, starring a vaguely cat-like cartoon critter, Frank, and his friends, neighbors, antagonists, nightmares, perhaps chief among them the loathsome yet pitiable, more-or-less anthropomorphic swine, Manhog. Placed in a lushly drawn worldscape that must have come out of the author's dream diary. Scalp-prickling stuff from Jim Woodring, a writer/artist who has clearly learned from underground comix masters R. Crumb and Justin Green, yet brings his own searching, sometimes scary, yet fundamentally affirmative and humane perspective to the mix. Plus dig those hynoptically wavy lines! (As a plus, these tales, though evasive in a way, are highly accessible to young and old - my own sons have read some of them with pleasure.)
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Title: Quimby the Mouse (ACME Novelty Library) by Chris Ware ISBN: 1560974850 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Acme Novelty Datebook: Sketches and Diary Pages in Facsimile 1986-1995 by Chris Ware, Drawn & Quarterly ISBN: 1896597661 Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Pubns Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown ISBN: 1896597637 Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Pubns Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Trosper by Jim Woodring, Bill Frisell ISBN: 1560974265 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930: "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night" (Krazy Kat) by George Herriman, Bill Blackbeard ISBN: 1560975296 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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