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Frank
Congress of the Animals
Readers of the "Frank" stories know that The Unifactor is in control of everything that happens to the characters that abide there, and that however extreme the experiences they undergo may be, in the end nothing really changes. That goes for treble for Frank himself, who is kept in a state of total ineducability by the unseen forces of that haunted realm. And so the question arises: what would happen if Frank were to leave The Unifactor? The question is answered in Congress of the Animals, Jim Woodring's much-anticipated, second full-length graphic novel. In this gripping saga an act of casual rudeness sets into motion a chain of events which propels Frank into a world where he is on his own at last; and like so many who leave home, Frank finds himself contending with realities of which he had no previous inkling.
In Congress of the Animals we are treated to the pitiful spectacle of Frank losing his house, taking a factory job, falling in with bad company, fleeing the results of sabotage, escaping The Unifactor in an amusement park ride, surviving a catastrophe at sea, traveling across hostile terrain toward a massive temple seemingly built in his image, being treated roughly by gut-faced men and intervening in an age-old battle in a meadow slathered in black and yellow blood. And when he finally knocks on opportunity's door he finds... he finds... The answer, my friend, is blowin' into bookstores in April, 2011.
In Congress of the Animals we are treated to the pitiful spectacle of Frank losing his house, taking a factory job, falling in with bad company, fleeing the results of sabotage, escaping The Unifactor in an amusement park ride, surviving a catastrophe at sea, traveling across hostile terrain toward a massive temple seemingly built in his image, being treated roughly by gut-faced men and intervening in an age-old battle in a meadow slathered in black and yellow blood. And when he finally knocks on opportunity's door he finds... he finds... The answer, my friend, is blowin' into bookstores in April, 2011.
104 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2011
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About the author
Jim Woodring
172 books241 followersJim Woodring was born in Los Angeles in 1952 and enjoyed a childhood made lively by an assortment of mental an psychological quirks including paroniria, paranoia, paracusia, apparitions, hallucinations and other species of psychological and neurological malfunction among the snakes and tarantulas of the San Gabriel mountains.
He eventually grew up to bean inquisitive bearlike man who has enjoyed three exciting careers: garbage collector, merry-go-round-operator and cartoonist. A self-taught artist, his first published works documented the disorienting hell of his salad days in an “illustrated autojournal” called Jim. This work was published by Fantagraphics Books and collected in The Book of Jim in 1992.
He is best known for his wordless comics series depicting the follies of his character Frank, a generic cartoon anthropomorph whose adventures careen wildly from sweet to appalling. A decade’s worth of these stories was collected in The Frank Book in 2004. The 2010 Frank story Weathercraft won The Stranger’s Genius Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for that year. The most recent Frank book, Congress of the Animals, was released in 2011.
Woodring is also known for his anecdotal charcoal drawings (a selection which was gathered in Seeing Things in 2005), and the sculptures, vinyl figures, fabrics and gallery installations that have been made from his designs. His multimedia collaborations with the musician Bill Frisell won them a United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. He lives in Seattle with his family and residual phenomena.
-Walter Foxglove
He eventually grew up to bean inquisitive bearlike man who has enjoyed three exciting careers: garbage collector, merry-go-round-operator and cartoonist. A self-taught artist, his first published works documented the disorienting hell of his salad days in an “illustrated autojournal” called Jim. This work was published by Fantagraphics Books and collected in The Book of Jim in 1992.
He is best known for his wordless comics series depicting the follies of his character Frank, a generic cartoon anthropomorph whose adventures careen wildly from sweet to appalling. A decade’s worth of these stories was collected in The Frank Book in 2004. The 2010 Frank story Weathercraft won The Stranger’s Genius Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for that year. The most recent Frank book, Congress of the Animals, was released in 2011.
Woodring is also known for his anecdotal charcoal drawings (a selection which was gathered in Seeing Things in 2005), and the sculptures, vinyl figures, fabrics and gallery installations that have been made from his designs. His multimedia collaborations with the musician Bill Frisell won them a United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. He lives in Seattle with his family and residual phenomena.
-Walter Foxglove
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February 22, 2016
Perfection. But fun. And romantic, too.
September 29, 2014
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Mythopoeic. This term must be used when discussing Jim Woodring’s work. Behind the intensely subjective vision and surrealistic extravagances is a heraclitean bedrock of received and created myths. Take Congress of the Animals. What we have here is nothing less than a cosmological creation tale told from a macro- and microcosmic viewpoint. It can be read as the history of a person (more than likely autobiographically Woodringian) and the history of us all (or at least those of us open to the mythopoeic). As it is cosmological rather than cosmogonical it begins with the world already in place, enjoying perhaps a thoughtless and story-free Golden Age, Pupshaw scampering about our shins, and then proceeds to tell the tale of what happens when strife enters the world, and with it self-awareness.
Anyone interested in Woodring should know that for years, beginning in childhood, he suffered from hallucinations wherein ominous and threatening shapes and beings divebombed his brain. The stubbornly haunting lineaments of these shapes and beings are clearly represented in his later work. He/she should also know that success did not come easy for him, that he had to work a number of unsavory jobs before making it with his pen. These bare facts are useful to know when reading Congress of the Animals as within it these facts are mythopoeicized.
In the beginning a rather capricious and gloating deity is floating about in his balloon popping bon-bons when he inadvertently blocks the rays of a sun tanning satan figure – (check the page (one of my favorites here) that directly correlates the deity with satan, both self-satisfactorily reclining with arms behind head). This conjunction of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ (in quotes because there are no absolutes in Woodringland) issues in the destruction of Frank’s (the loveably sappy, and ethically erratic, main character) world; the destruction facilitated by a Pandora’s croquet set jettisoned by the deity as his balloon threatens to plummet.
And so a series of crazy adventures ensue, which as I said are roughly autobiographical, including a stint hauling garbage, but which also chronicle the gradual (and fragile) awakening to awareness of any human to himself and to his place in the world.
These adventures include: the earth opening up and swallowing his house, an underwater journey where the deity maliciously and gleefully destroys an ancient treasure, the discovery of a large Frank-like monument (which becomes the object of his quest),depictions of the now earthbound deity creating further mischievous disturbances in Frank’s life, with Frank one moment subjected to his will and at another moment free of it and laughing at the disabled deity; the deity having lost a leg and an eye in a no doubt freak accident. Frank, you see, is something of a will-o’-the-wisp, with a continuously fluctuating character, which of course makes him all the more real and affecting.
During the course of his adventures he also descends into what can only be termed a psychic hell, where men with hollowed out faces intentionally subject him to horrors and hallucinations, from which Frank emerges with a peculiar twisted-up organ protruding from his navel. He pokes this back in and then goes on his way, no doubt a fundamentally changed creature.
Nearly all of the allegorical/symbolical details of the tale are fairly clear to me, which at least on a first read I found vaguely disappointing; but then on further reads the innate power of these details over-rode my logical understanding of them and I found a new satisfaction. Though the meaning/significance of one particular detail still eludes me. At one point Frank ends up literally underground and is enlisted to help an assortment of creatures tug on ropes that drop into a blind hole. With Frank’s help a horrifying though impassive creature with multiple faces in the round emerges, only to fall back into the hall drawing all the creatures but Frank with it. On the back cover Woodring provides a key of sorts to the book, and this particular scene is described as “The sudden appearance of the agency which makes one feel at home in the earth.” Immediately after this adventure Frank does seem to have more self-control, and he does immediately enter a large Frank-like structure unimpeded, wherein he meets his future wife. So the multi-faced creature does appear to have been the agent of some kind of awakening, but it’s so horrific looking! and it did seemingly draw a number of creatures to their deaths, so… what I take from it is that in Woodringland to ‘feel at home in the earth’ is a decidedly mixed blessing.
Have the mythopoeic characteristics of this particularly work been well enough elucidated? I hope they have at least been suggested, and far from exhausted, as I hope only to inspire others to check out Woodringland (aka The Unifactor) for themselves.
Mythopoeic. This term must be used when discussing Jim Woodring’s work. Behind the intensely subjective vision and surrealistic extravagances is a heraclitean bedrock of received and created myths. Take Congress of the Animals. What we have here is nothing less than a cosmological creation tale told from a macro- and microcosmic viewpoint. It can be read as the history of a person (more than likely autobiographically Woodringian) and the history of us all (or at least those of us open to the mythopoeic). As it is cosmological rather than cosmogonical it begins with the world already in place, enjoying perhaps a thoughtless and story-free Golden Age, Pupshaw scampering about our shins, and then proceeds to tell the tale of what happens when strife enters the world, and with it self-awareness.
Anyone interested in Woodring should know that for years, beginning in childhood, he suffered from hallucinations wherein ominous and threatening shapes and beings divebombed his brain. The stubbornly haunting lineaments of these shapes and beings are clearly represented in his later work. He/she should also know that success did not come easy for him, that he had to work a number of unsavory jobs before making it with his pen. These bare facts are useful to know when reading Congress of the Animals as within it these facts are mythopoeicized.
In the beginning a rather capricious and gloating deity is floating about in his balloon popping bon-bons when he inadvertently blocks the rays of a sun tanning satan figure – (check the page (one of my favorites here) that directly correlates the deity with satan, both self-satisfactorily reclining with arms behind head). This conjunction of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ (in quotes because there are no absolutes in Woodringland) issues in the destruction of Frank’s (the loveably sappy, and ethically erratic, main character) world; the destruction facilitated by a Pandora’s croquet set jettisoned by the deity as his balloon threatens to plummet.
And so a series of crazy adventures ensue, which as I said are roughly autobiographical, including a stint hauling garbage, but which also chronicle the gradual (and fragile) awakening to awareness of any human to himself and to his place in the world.
These adventures include: the earth opening up and swallowing his house, an underwater journey where the deity maliciously and gleefully destroys an ancient treasure, the discovery of a large Frank-like monument (which becomes the object of his quest),depictions of the now earthbound deity creating further mischievous disturbances in Frank’s life, with Frank one moment subjected to his will and at another moment free of it and laughing at the disabled deity; the deity having lost a leg and an eye in a no doubt freak accident. Frank, you see, is something of a will-o’-the-wisp, with a continuously fluctuating character, which of course makes him all the more real and affecting.
During the course of his adventures he also descends into what can only be termed a psychic hell, where men with hollowed out faces intentionally subject him to horrors and hallucinations, from which Frank emerges with a peculiar twisted-up organ protruding from his navel. He pokes this back in and then goes on his way, no doubt a fundamentally changed creature.
Nearly all of the allegorical/symbolical details of the tale are fairly clear to me, which at least on a first read I found vaguely disappointing; but then on further reads the innate power of these details over-rode my logical understanding of them and I found a new satisfaction. Though the meaning/significance of one particular detail still eludes me. At one point Frank ends up literally underground and is enlisted to help an assortment of creatures tug on ropes that drop into a blind hole. With Frank’s help a horrifying though impassive creature with multiple faces in the round emerges, only to fall back into the hall drawing all the creatures but Frank with it. On the back cover Woodring provides a key of sorts to the book, and this particular scene is described as “The sudden appearance of the agency which makes one feel at home in the earth.” Immediately after this adventure Frank does seem to have more self-control, and he does immediately enter a large Frank-like structure unimpeded, wherein he meets his future wife. So the multi-faced creature does appear to have been the agent of some kind of awakening, but it’s so horrific looking! and it did seemingly draw a number of creatures to their deaths, so… what I take from it is that in Woodringland to ‘feel at home in the earth’ is a decidedly mixed blessing.
Have the mythopoeic characteristics of this particularly work been well enough elucidated? I hope they have at least been suggested, and far from exhausted, as I hope only to inspire others to check out Woodringland (aka The Unifactor) for themselves.
July 25, 2015
WHY ARE THESE BOOKS SO GREAT IT HURTS ME
April 22, 2015
A pair with another book, Fran, and this is a Frank book. Others have written more detailed reviews but this is surreally inventive, possibly hallucinogenic, mythical, magical, somewhat disturbing, impressively rendered, wordless. I have been revisiting Michael DeForge's works this past week and thought I would read Congress and Fran. Crazy books, and yet there are human dimensions we see in them we don't otherwise see as much in earlier works.
September 19, 2011
Frank's house is destroyed after a freak polo accident, causing him to get a job at a factory to pay the costs of rebuilding it. But that wouldn't make an interesting book would it? Frank escapes and sets out on a journey of exploration of the wonderfully weird world of the Unifactor and falls in love.
Jim Woodring's follow up to the successful "Weathercraft" is another wordless, charmingly illustrated, surreal trip of a comic book. Everyone seems to be a strange monster and the further Frank delves into the Unifactor (the world Woodring created where all of his books take place in) the more confusing and bizarre the events unfolding become.
Woodring's style of highly detailed black and white drawings are gorgeous to look at and the story of someone leaving home and finding their place in the world, while as old as time, is given new life in this strange new world. If you've read "Weathercraft" or Woodring's "Frank" books you'll know what to expect and "Congress of the Animals" is as good as anything he's done previously. If you're new, be prepared to be bamboozled and fascinated by the uniqueness of the Unifactor.
Strange but beautiful, it's an interesting comic book that underlines how different Jim Woodring is from other comic book artists out there at the moment.
Jim Woodring's follow up to the successful "Weathercraft" is another wordless, charmingly illustrated, surreal trip of a comic book. Everyone seems to be a strange monster and the further Frank delves into the Unifactor (the world Woodring created where all of his books take place in) the more confusing and bizarre the events unfolding become.
Woodring's style of highly detailed black and white drawings are gorgeous to look at and the story of someone leaving home and finding their place in the world, while as old as time, is given new life in this strange new world. If you've read "Weathercraft" or Woodring's "Frank" books you'll know what to expect and "Congress of the Animals" is as good as anything he's done previously. If you're new, be prepared to be bamboozled and fascinated by the uniqueness of the Unifactor.
Strange but beautiful, it's an interesting comic book that underlines how different Jim Woodring is from other comic book artists out there at the moment.
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June 23, 2018
And lo Frank started working a shitty job to cover an expense and ended his journey by getting a girlfriend.
Jim Woodring defies clear and plain review. It defies the reader to try and honestly explain what the hell is actually happening. Frank moves through the world, observing oddity, reacting when this strange world tries to touch him, breaking things because they're there, and enjoying the benefits of his curiosity. Congress of the Animals is yet another journey the reader should try and take, because even if they've never read a Frank comic before, that doesn't matter.
No matter where you are in life, and your reading, Frank comics remind the reader that life is not about destinations, it's about the sheer enormity of oddity that is the world. Frank watches a naked man open his stomach and spill out his guts, and even this isn't enough to stop the man from pushing onwards to the strange castle on the horizon that bears a starting resemblance to the hero.
There isn't a simple way to describe Frank that isn't "Fucking weird dude." After that you're best bet is just to say, "It's unlike anything you'll ever read in you're life." And you won't be wrong.
Jim Woodring defies clear and plain review. It defies the reader to try and honestly explain what the hell is actually happening. Frank moves through the world, observing oddity, reacting when this strange world tries to touch him, breaking things because they're there, and enjoying the benefits of his curiosity. Congress of the Animals is yet another journey the reader should try and take, because even if they've never read a Frank comic before, that doesn't matter.
No matter where you are in life, and your reading, Frank comics remind the reader that life is not about destinations, it's about the sheer enormity of oddity that is the world. Frank watches a naked man open his stomach and spill out his guts, and even this isn't enough to stop the man from pushing onwards to the strange castle on the horizon that bears a starting resemblance to the hero.
There isn't a simple way to describe Frank that isn't "Fucking weird dude." After that you're best bet is just to say, "It's unlike anything you'll ever read in you're life." And you won't be wrong.
March 14, 2013
I'm normally a little wary of totally silent comic books. There are very few people who can pull off that trick of creating a compelling and engaging story with no words at all. Jim Woodring is one of those people, and his protagonist Frank (an anthropomorphic creature who looks a little like a cat) is a wonderful creation. Frank lives in a world of inexplicable perils and arbitrary disasters, and he's largely unable to impose himself on events. He just moves from one crisis to the next, resigned to his suffering, until life finally gives him love instead of lemons. That's the plot, insofar as there is one. But the beauties of the book lie in the details and the indelible atmosphere, two parts menace to one part whimsy. It's like nothing so much as the storyboard for a movie-length cartoon directed by David Lynch!
August 12, 2020
My first ever "Frank" story and oh man I was not prepared for this trippy book. However I did enjoy the journey a lot. The GN doesn't have a single word let alone a dialogue. Goes on to show how strong art is at communicating.
December 26, 2021
Oh, my! This is so incredible and totally unexpected. This type of haunting art combined with surrealism is just perfect.
August 10, 2016
4.5stars
Do you like weirdness? (note: very positive connotation in my lexicon) Do you enjoy comics? Do you confidently process non-linguistic visual information? Did you answer "yes" to at least 2 of the first 3 questions? Then absorb this book with your eyes cuz you can't read it if it ain't got no words.
Ah, but Congress of the Animals is a drastic departure from The Frank Book's wordlessness. Woodring either agreed to let the publisher combine words with his pictures or he provided words for his pictures. Nontraditionally, of course. The inside dust jacket contains a plot synopsis, the back dust jacket provides allusive quotes, and the back cover displays an eloquent caption beneath 20 panel-ettes. I could kiss whoever made this possible because i would've inferred nothing even remotely specific from "something too attractive to resist and too exalted to possess" and "affectless hardware intended to introduce lost souls to false reality."
Of the Frank comics i've seen, this is the most accessible, but my brief review of Weathercraft still applies: i want a roomfull of smart people to help me understand it fully.
In Comics Journal's interview with Woodring ("The Mind of a Worldly Man Is Like a Fly"), he says, "you start using words and people apply to them whatever meanings their prejudices dictate. Images are less open to interpretation in a way." Alas, i cannot interpret pictures clearly. Especially the more ornate ones. And the absence of colors other than black&white confounds me further. "Conjoined battling monsters seeking a voluntary merger through enforced separation"? If they hadn't put that text below that picture, i'd've thought the text didn't belong with this book because i could only see 1 creature battling Frank in those scenes.
I gotta buy Fran cuz none of the libraries around here have it. I oughta buy Weathercraft and this one while i'm at it. Maybe you should do the same.
Do you like weirdness? (note: very positive connotation in my lexicon) Do you enjoy comics? Do you confidently process non-linguistic visual information? Did you answer "yes" to at least 2 of the first 3 questions? Then absorb this book with your eyes cuz you can't read it if it ain't got no words.
Ah, but Congress of the Animals is a drastic departure from The Frank Book's wordlessness. Woodring either agreed to let the publisher combine words with his pictures or he provided words for his pictures. Nontraditionally, of course. The inside dust jacket contains a plot synopsis, the back dust jacket provides allusive quotes, and the back cover displays an eloquent caption beneath 20 panel-ettes. I could kiss whoever made this possible because i would've inferred nothing even remotely specific from "something too attractive to resist and too exalted to possess" and "affectless hardware intended to introduce lost souls to false reality."
Of the Frank comics i've seen, this is the most accessible, but my brief review of Weathercraft still applies: i want a roomfull of smart people to help me understand it fully.
In Comics Journal's interview with Woodring ("The Mind of a Worldly Man Is Like a Fly"), he says, "you start using words and people apply to them whatever meanings their prejudices dictate. Images are less open to interpretation in a way." Alas, i cannot interpret pictures clearly. Especially the more ornate ones. And the absence of colors other than black&white confounds me further. "Conjoined battling monsters seeking a voluntary merger through enforced separation"? If they hadn't put that text below that picture, i'd've thought the text didn't belong with this book because i could only see 1 creature battling Frank in those scenes.
I gotta buy Fran cuz none of the libraries around here have it. I oughta buy Weathercraft and this one while i'm at it. Maybe you should do the same.
December 10, 2013
This is a great book, and one I've had for awhile and has been sitting on my "to read" stack. Now that Fran has just been released, I thought it the perfect opportunity to finally get to Congress of the Animals. This book would have been enjoyable on its own, certainly, but within the context of Fran, it probably reads even better. (I wouldn't know how it read by itself, without immediately preceding Fran, since I didn't read it when it first came out.) Now I'm sorry I didn't pick this one up earlier, especially when it came out in 2011. I liked Weathercraft, Woodring's last book of this sort, but this one's even better.
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April 12, 2011AMAZING!
June 19, 2011
Absolutely Amazing and Beautiful in every respect...the closer you look - the more there is to see. Beyond words.
June 7, 2011
First-rate art, with Woodring's usual dream-like scenes and wordless storytelling. Could Bill Frisell please write a score for this book?
April 20, 2012
Not quite as good as the shorter stories, I think, which tend to be more focused and elemental, somehow both clearer and less clear than this one, to me, but hard not to be amazed by regardless.
August 28, 2023
Congress of the Animals begins with the destruction of Frank's house after a royal entity flying in a balloon is shot down by the Whim. Frank, unable to pay for the damages, is placed under indentured servitude but soon escapes and goes on a surreal, dream like journey across the Unifactor. He discovers a giant monument made in his image and inside finds depictions of a mischievous deity who adds grief to Frank's life. While Woodring's many "Frank" stories are steeped in whimsy and wonder, there is ample horror to go along with it due to the unnatural aspects to the dream logic. Congress of the Animals is sure to induce in readers sensations of awe, bewilderment and the shivers as many of Woodring's other comics do with ease. Great stuff as always.
April 1, 2020
This is quite the experience. I’ve seen a lot of videos and listened to a lot of interviews with Jim Woodring, but this is my first book I’ve read of his. I’m inspired by the choice not to use dialogue... as an aspiring cartoonist and writer I find myself getting to wordy. This book told a beautiful and engaging story without that. I definitely want to look into reading more of Jim’s work. This was a great read.
December 30, 2022
This comes from the creative dungeon of Jim Woodring, so please restrain yourself with the weird or imperceptible adjectives. In this lovely volume, we have Frank being treated roughly by the forces of the universe. What's most disturbing is the meeting he has with these twisted-faced mutant "men". We are getting very close to stomach-churning territory here, Mr. Woodring. For a minute there, I was deathly concerned for Frank's well being!
October 15, 2017
This is my first foray into the weird world of Jim Woodring. The art was pretty spectacular, and the story very strange and psychedelic and a bit disturbing but occasionally cute. I love the expressions of the characters. I don't know what it all means, but it's probably something worth re-reading on a lazy Sunday arvo. I'll have to track down 'Frank' next.
March 21, 2020
Mnohem víc přímočarý než Frank a Mrakobití ale zároveň s
ještě divnějšíma momentama. Miluju design Woodringovo postav a tady se vyřádil pořádně. Jestli se vám nelíbily jeho ostatní věci, nemá smysl tohle ani zkoušet. Congress of the Animals jede pořád ve stejnym duchu a náladě.
Já jsem se ale do Unifactor zamiloval a tohle je zatím best :)
ještě divnějšíma momentama. Miluju design Woodringovo postav a tady se vyřádil pořádně. Jestli se vám nelíbily jeho ostatní věci, nemá smysl tohle ani zkoušet. Congress of the Animals jede pořád ve stejnym duchu a náladě.
Já jsem se ale do Unifactor zamiloval a tohle je zatím best :)
December 5, 2025
This is the first 'Frank' book that I have read. It felt very weird fiction to me, which is really interesting since there's no text, lol. But I got vibes of Alice in Wonderland, Lovecraft, and Willy Wonka. Enjoyed it. I will have to look to see if my library has other 'Frank' books. Recommended if you like art and weird stuff :)
August 5, 2018
Beautiful art - the detail of the world, its creatures and their body language is amazing. The only real drawback is that it's not quite as astounding as the other Frank stories I've read - it's missing the undercurrent of unsettling darkness.
November 10, 2018
Un viaggio epico nelle profondità di un ingegno a tratti tenebroso e onirico. Frank in questa novel combatte con flutti tempestosi, mostri, creature bizzarre e pericolose, fino a incontrare l'anima gemella, in in un'avventura che è al contempo sogno, impresa eroica ed epica parodica.
April 4, 2019
Like all of Woodring's work, it's nothing short of magic. Pure comic making skills. However, I do think the ending of this doesn't quite sit right with the rest of the Frank books. Woodring felt this way as well, which led to the "sequel," Fran.
January 17, 2021
Super trippy but awesome at the same time. I loved the black and white illustrations and can't wait to read again.
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September 18, 2021
Most of these things have happened to me in real life.
But also, while I enjoy these earlier works of Woodring his later drawings are much, much better. It's also interesting to see the clear Louis Wain influence (of which I still need a good book but haven't found so far) in one of the panels.
But also, while I enjoy these earlier works of Woodring his later drawings are much, much better. It's also interesting to see the clear Louis Wain influence (of which I still need a good book but haven't found so far) in one of the panels.
December 17, 2021
Pépite, pépite, pépite !
J'adore ce dessin en encrage noir, sans texte, qui raconte tout par l'enchainement des cases.
C'est caustique, fantasmagorique et foutrac à souhait !
On retrouve des similitudes avec l'univers de Fluzz et Pluck.
Je vous la conseille chaudement !
J'adore ce dessin en encrage noir, sans texte, qui raconte tout par l'enchainement des cases.
C'est caustique, fantasmagorique et foutrac à souhait !
On retrouve des similitudes avec l'univers de Fluzz et Pluck.
Je vous la conseille chaudement !
December 6, 2022
I read this when it came out, of course. And added it to my want to read list when I decided to re-read everything. Then, I got One Beautiful Spring Day from the library, got 1/3 through, and realized that I’d just re-read this book.
Jim Woodring is a genius.
Jim Woodring is a genius.
September 17, 2017
Uncanny and ineffable, like everything Woodring does.
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