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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, are told with brilliant, candy colors that people of all ages find alluring. 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. 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.
200 pages, Hardcover
First published September 3, 2008
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About the author
Jim Woodring
172 books242 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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October 8, 2020
I think I've read all of these Frank stories under separate cover, but it's important to read them multiple times because they hold all the answers.
July 28, 2011
I almost wrote a review for Jim Woodring's The Portable Frank a few different nights. I'd go to sleep instead. They hypnotize me into saying nothing. Wordless, expressionless that's how you can always add more kinda less (that's more!) to zero drawings. If I knew the technical terms on my own and not from picking up how people who are in the know talk to each other talk from reviews of other things I could say "woodcuts" (woodcuttings? What is fringe knowledge good for?). I'd be a fraud. I don't know anthromorphizing, allegories, visions of reality. Lines blur so I can step into them. Do I believe it could happen? Yeah. Did I believe in them? Oh yes. I'd stare at the strips and a feeling would come over me. Perplexities, empathy... Hell, expressions. The bemused smile would turn to one of bittersweetness and laughing to distract from shame and I don't know why. Stubbing toe (the big one!) pain of surprise. Reflecting from them to me. Mind to mind, heart to heart. A high five that'd miss like the ultra cool old school trick of sliding your hand through your hair when the other person thinks you're going in for a hand shake. I was hynotized by the something kinda names of feelings if you could see what others see when they see you going about being yourself as if no one was watching. It means a lot to me to be able to read that way. It's like being able to tell your own story out of what you read (see). (Feel.) It means everything to me to keep that part of myself that feels enough to still decide what is happening. The Portable Frank collection are those kinds of stories.
Hynotize.
P.s. Something about the Gentleman Hog touched me. I've read in other reviews that he's something of a nemesis for Frank. If anything around you can be a nemesis by breathing the same air and wanting to grab the same stars (basic needs like food and the ability to laugh and react to a stubbed toe). When the hog is a slave for the sinister fork tailed keeper down of the natural tendencies of others (I don't know his name. That's what he is to me)... I tossed and turned in my bed thinking of that that night. I'd want to do something for him. Smile back, I don't know. When he learns more to stand upright and have the luxury to feel for himself instead of a life on all fours in the dirt... I still think about it.
Hynotize.
P.s. Something about the Gentleman Hog touched me. I've read in other reviews that he's something of a nemesis for Frank. If anything around you can be a nemesis by breathing the same air and wanting to grab the same stars (basic needs like food and the ability to laugh and react to a stubbed toe). When the hog is a slave for the sinister fork tailed keeper down of the natural tendencies of others (I don't know his name. That's what he is to me)... I tossed and turned in my bed thinking of that that night. I'd want to do something for him. Smile back, I don't know. When he learns more to stand upright and have the luxury to feel for himself instead of a life on all fours in the dirt... I still think about it.
November 14, 2014
Nearly wordless, this collection of Frank comics (starring our hero, the incorrigible anthropomorphic Frank) dances sinuously along the uneasy line of being a comic pluming with childlike wonder or a Freudian lesson in disturbing Boschian imagery. But never fear, these short comics are visually tame even if they can make for an unsettling snack. The stories within this collection vary from nonsensical play to moral parables, and feature Pupshaw, a friendly doghouse-shaped dog that serves as hapless Frank's loyal companion and protector; Manhog, a brutish pig-man whose self-loathing makes him lash out when what he craves is a hug; and Whim, a skeletal mountebank with a great smile that constantly tricks Frank into falling for his many opaque and often demonic cons. All in all, a visually stunning fantasy for the troubled child in all of us. I can't wait to see more of Frank.
August 22, 2020
A Disney Cartoon steps out of his house and a pig man tries to kill him before a demon pulls a spirit from another dimension, and at the end of the day Frank goes home.
Reading is the wrong word for The Portable Frank. You don’t “read” Frank’s story, you just feel it as your eyes travel over the story and the reader is left with the sensation of this world. This is not to say The Portable Frank isn’t enjoyable. I read this book over and over again just savoring the sensation of being in this world with this character who seemed immune to the oddities that would drive the hardiest of wills to the brink of madness. That’s the charm I think of Woodring’s universe. No matter how strange or surreal or wonderful or frightening, there is always Frank.
Jim Woodring is an incredible artist, and as a comics writer and artist he contributes to the form by establishing a universe where anything, ANYTHING, can happen. The world of Frank is about possibility and imagination. And while there are no words to this story, the reader is left haunted by the silence and the images that crafted a narrative that lingers after them long after they have put the book down.
Reading is the wrong word for The Portable Frank. You don’t “read” Frank’s story, you just feel it as your eyes travel over the story and the reader is left with the sensation of this world. This is not to say The Portable Frank isn’t enjoyable. I read this book over and over again just savoring the sensation of being in this world with this character who seemed immune to the oddities that would drive the hardiest of wills to the brink of madness. That’s the charm I think of Woodring’s universe. No matter how strange or surreal or wonderful or frightening, there is always Frank.
Jim Woodring is an incredible artist, and as a comics writer and artist he contributes to the form by establishing a universe where anything, ANYTHING, can happen. The world of Frank is about possibility and imagination. And while there are no words to this story, the reader is left haunted by the silence and the images that crafted a narrative that lingers after them long after they have put the book down.
May 10, 2022
You have to be high in order to understand this book
December 4, 2019
এমন রেখাগল্প আগে কখনও পড়িনি। উদ্ভট, অদ্ভুত, জ্বরের ঘোরে দেখা দৃশ্যে সাজিয়ে বলা গল্প। খেই ধরা কঠিন, কখনও আবার ধরার মতো খেইও থাকে না। মুগ্ধ হয়েছি উডরিঙের ন্যূনকল্পী অঙ্কনশৈলী দেখে। নিঃসংলাপ গল্পকথন এর আগে দেখেছি ক্রিস্টিয়ান স্লেইড আর শন ট্যানের কাজে, দু'জনের ওপরই উডরিঙের কাজের প্রভাব আছে বলে মনে হয়েছে।
May 14, 2019
W-O-W. This graphic novel left me speechless, not only upon completion, but throughout the entire ride. Literally bowing down to Woodring as we speak, this was an incredible GR find (thank you to whoever recommended this on the feed, unfortunately I cannot remember). Talk about a Graphic Novel!
The Portable Frank is a collection of Jim Woodring's wordless comics that follows a cat(?)-like creature and his companions' adventures through a twisting dreamscape. The art was so fluid and expressive that I flew right through it. I'm definitely going to go back and take my time absorbing the art now that I understand the premise of each short story (which can be confusing, and I'm sure was made to be). That confusion, however, does not take away from the overall stories and I think its one of factors that make Frank, Frank. Because its surreal, each story is pretty unpredictable, which is half of the fun. Just the strangeness and the originality of the figures, architecture, and personalities of the characters makes this one one of the best graphic novels I've ever read. Woodring's unique combination of classic ink comic style (reminiscent of 1920's cartoons) and Dali-esque detail can truly define him, in my opinion, as a visionary artist.
To anyone who loves graphic novels, or even those who have never read one - READ THIS !!!!
The Portable Frank is a collection of Jim Woodring's wordless comics that follows a cat(?)-like creature and his companions' adventures through a twisting dreamscape. The art was so fluid and expressive that I flew right through it. I'm definitely going to go back and take my time absorbing the art now that I understand the premise of each short story (which can be confusing, and I'm sure was made to be). That confusion, however, does not take away from the overall stories and I think its one of factors that make Frank, Frank. Because its surreal, each story is pretty unpredictable, which is half of the fun. Just the strangeness and the originality of the figures, architecture, and personalities of the characters makes this one one of the best graphic novels I've ever read. Woodring's unique combination of classic ink comic style (reminiscent of 1920's cartoons) and Dali-esque detail can truly define him, in my opinion, as a visionary artist.
To anyone who loves graphic novels, or even those who have never read one - READ THIS !!!!
July 19, 2011
Jim Woodring has is amazing. Here, he's somehow able to set wordless stories in an incomprehensible world filled with entirely unexplained (maybe unexplainable) wonders and terrors, and yet still make each individual story make total sense. What I mean is that the actual narrative is rarely confusing; what it means may be another question entirely. Though many of these do play out basically as sharp, strange fables of a sort. Also manages to balance gracefully between whimsy and brutality in a totally convincing way.
May 28, 2024
9.3
Prawdopodobnie najbardziej psychodeliczna, jedna z żywiej przerażających mnie historii toczącej się w świecie tak surrealistycznym, że jednocześnie niebezpiecznie fascynującym, jak i odpychającym. Mistrzostwo wyobrażeń, łączenia elementów bez potrzeby zastosowania słów. Kocham całym sercem.
Prawdopodobnie najbardziej psychodeliczna, jedna z żywiej przerażających mnie historii toczącej się w świecie tak surrealistycznym, że jednocześnie niebezpiecznie fascynującym, jak i odpychającym. Mistrzostwo wyobrażeń, łączenia elementów bez potrzeby zastosowania słów. Kocham całym sercem.
February 23, 2020
Niezwykłe światy kreowane przez Woodringa w pełnej krasie. Precyzyjnie i żmudnie zakreskowane grafiki, fantastycznie współgrające z odrealnioną wymową całości. Piękny psychodelik z wpływami niezależnego komiksu wprost od Crumba oraz animacji z początku XX w. w klimacie Betty Boop czy wczesnego Disneya. Pod tymi odjechanymi historiami zawsze kryje się coś więcej, więc warto sięgać głębiej.
November 4, 2008
There's something classic about Jim Woodring's cartoons: while Tezuka is more Betty Boop, Woodring is Mickey Mouse noir. Although Woodring himself can hardly be called "classic" as he's barely older than this reviewer, the style and themes, the goofily surreal sense of humor is '30s classic. Frank (a chipmunk? a tailless monkey? a cheeky doberman?) lives in an onion dome with a breadbox cat and trades pranks and life lessons with a mani-in-the-moon and a caliban. The Portable Frank is fantastic and fantastical and suitable for all ages.
December 27, 2024
Prebral dvakrat. Zelo počasi. Spoj nadrealističnega, arabesknega (ali kaj neki so tiste vrtavke oziroma vaze), burlesknega in fantazijskega. Všeč mi je, da zgodbe prežema sanjska logika, ki pa je še vedno neka logika. Se mi zdi. Liki in posamezni elementi imajo skozi več zgodb neko opisljivo obstojnost, nek po malem arhetipski karakter, neko globljo, mistično simboliko. Ne gre torej le za prazno nizanje sanjskih, komičnih scen oziroma dogodivščin, za signaliziranje "umetniškosti". In prekrasna risba, polna detajlov, lirizma, ki na trenutke deluje skoraj kot optična iluzija. Hipnotičen miks klasičnega stripovskega kadriranja in včasih povsem nepredvidljive zgodbe. Odličen zaključek leta za naročnike Stripburgerja! Tole + "Naplavine" Gašperja Rusa, ki jih bom z veseljem ocenil, ko jih dodajo.
December 7, 2017
Maybe it seems foolish to rate a comic which has barely any words 5 stars. It's true that I'm a sucker for expressive cartoons. Especially cute ones, and especially those with unpredictable plots. The Portable Frank is descriptive, adorable, and full of questions.
Each story is short, shown in speechless panels. Sometimes gaps between panels leave much of the story's plot up to the reader to imagine. There is enough detail in the picture to give the creative mind tools to work with, however. Jim Woodring's hilarious ink drawings drive a story that is strangely both vague and compelling at once.
Each story is short, shown in speechless panels. Sometimes gaps between panels leave much of the story's plot up to the reader to imagine. There is enough detail in the picture to give the creative mind tools to work with, however. Jim Woodring's hilarious ink drawings drive a story that is strangely both vague and compelling at once.
December 31, 2022
Niezwykła wyobraźnia! A pies najlepszym przyjacielem... Franka.
July 2, 2022
Like Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities., this is an interactive work of graphic fiction. While some words appear in the stories, in titles, in narratorial comments, and in signs and papers in the characters’ surroundings, there is no dialogue. Nevertheless, one can move from panel to panel, following the apparent action without a great deal of effort: even if it is difficult for a jellyfish-bat creature in one of the stories to distinguish actual threat from playing or from accident, Woodring’s employment of familiar facial expressions, poses, gestures and comic book conventions make the determination of such distinctions easy for the reader; moreover, the absence of speech and thought balloons supply Woodring with more space in each panel to include more and richer visual detail. Nevertheless, while there is enough continuity from panel to panel to make it possible to guess how each follows the one preceding it, the guesses are only that: guesses. We really do not know the relations of the characters to one another or to the world in which they live, a world different from ours in which vase-like objects materialize in the air, a chicken has a yard sale, and later plays a game of cards with three other feathered creatures, including a cube and a torus. Because this world is different from ours, we can never be certain as to the meanings of the actions in the stories. Thus, it is always possible to ask how much one’s reading of the stories is an accurate understanding of the meaning of the action, and how much that reading is merely one possible interpretation, reflecting one’s own expectations (for instance, in one of the stories, the character with the mask and the forked tail may be giving Frank a reward, or tempting him—or he may be doing some other thing which has not yet occurred to me but which may have occurred to some other reader). In this way, Woodring calls attention to the way in which we make sense of the world, for instance anthropomorphizing that which is unfamiliar to us. However, although the characters in the book may behave like humans, they are not human, and we are frequently reminded of this by one character in particular: he resembles a man but he is never clothed, goes about on all fours, and sometimes acts as a beast of burden, drawing a cart driven by one or another of the other characters. Is he man or animal? Woodring leaves it up to the reader to decide.
Acquired Sept 26, 2010
Gift from Barry and Charles
Acquired Sept 26, 2010
Gift from Barry and Charles
September 11, 2011
I don't think I can say it better than Chris Ware when he says Jim Woodring is "trying to feel eternity within the universal rhythms, gestures and silent music of the corporeal, self-deluding persona."
I was intrigued, as I often am, by the deep strangeness of Jim Woodring's art, and yet the fact is that his worlds are also profoundly familiar. Having seen Jim speak at the Graphic festival recently I was moved by his description of his youth and the strange inward life he led. That eschewing of conventional pastimes to seek the delicious terror of the inner imaginative life was a mindset that I immediately recognised from myself, and it was a delight and a privilege to be able to thank Jim in person for articulating it so eloquently.
Frank is such a wonderfully simple and reprehensible guy, tossed willy nilly by his own whims and the surreal forces of the Unifactor within which he dwells. Woodring's beautifully pen and ink rendered images open a window into an alternative world that is both terrifying and amusing, alien and familiar, grotesque and gorgeous, and I can't recommend him highly enough.
I was intrigued, as I often am, by the deep strangeness of Jim Woodring's art, and yet the fact is that his worlds are also profoundly familiar. Having seen Jim speak at the Graphic festival recently I was moved by his description of his youth and the strange inward life he led. That eschewing of conventional pastimes to seek the delicious terror of the inner imaginative life was a mindset that I immediately recognised from myself, and it was a delight and a privilege to be able to thank Jim in person for articulating it so eloquently.
Frank is such a wonderfully simple and reprehensible guy, tossed willy nilly by his own whims and the surreal forces of the Unifactor within which he dwells. Woodring's beautifully pen and ink rendered images open a window into an alternative world that is both terrifying and amusing, alien and familiar, grotesque and gorgeous, and I can't recommend him highly enough.
June 8, 2009
Infinitely peculiar and infinitely re-readable, Frank and Pupshaw venture through their universe. You can come along if you like, but don't expect an explanation. Woodring's art - part Ub Iwerks, part Fleischer Studios, and part mushroom trip - is front and center, and carries the story because there is no dialogue. The fascination with the Frank cartoons comes from the fact that the reader enters the story by placing his/her own interpretation on the actions of the characters, which are alternately sublimely weird and utterly human. Brilliant stuff, miles above most of what passes for comics, oops, I mean, graphic novels.
September 12, 2017
It takes a special talent to be able to tell such interesting stories without any hint of dialogue. It's a storytelling style that I love and have a lot of respect for, so when I noticed "The Portable Frank" in a library, I simply had to pick it up (It's also not everyday I find a character with my name). While I read, I found myself mesmerized, not only by the intriguing artwork by Woodring, but by the sheer dreamlike and downright fantastical misadventures within. When finished, I couldn't be 100% sure what I had just experienced, but I knew I loved it, and quickly went back for a second helping to re-digest the stories. A Fantastic work in every way.
May 25, 2017
I dig Jim Woodring's art, of course, so I'm always ready to read his comics, but I don't know if I really understand them. They're full of surreal imagery and dryly amusing situations, but I feel like I'm missing some sort of deeper meaning. Maybe I could come to some understanding if I really studied them more, but I think I'm fine with just enjoying the weirdness without trying to investigate what they're saying about the human condition or whatever. So: these comics are good, but I expect some people will find them kind of baffling. YMMV.
July 15, 2018
tits. images i've never seen before, but have felt in dreams. hard to describe. must be seen to be believed. awesome, wordless (mostly wordless) comic. woodring has tapped into the unconscious like dali only wished he could. viewing frank is like revisiting a dream you know you've had but can't remember. i would recommend frank to happy idiots and academic elitists alike.
November 21, 2024
I know that I came across some Frank comic strips somewhere on the internet years ago, but I have no idea where. I want to say that it was something Woodring was posting online one page or panel at a time. I have no idea how that story ended, though maybe at some point I'll stumble onto those pages again.
But even though that was maybe a decade ago, I recognized the character as I was browsing the stacks of my local library (though what I saw first was One Beautiful Spring Day, a later collection) and decided to check it out.
Woodrings Frank stories are like old silent cartoons (which are frequently more bizarre than most know without going back and watching them) being acted out in a surreal landscape, one that is in many ways familiar to our own but more bizarre in others. Characters will suffer horrible cruelties, or bizarre transformations. Thing's that would get laughed off in a cartoon will be depicted with shocking reality. Ink blob demons will appear just as readily to the characters as Hindu Jiva's. It never crosses the line into edginess or pure shock value, but it feels like watching a dream shift back and forth into a nightmare and back.
I think another part of what makes these stories feel so unique is that there's also frequently a spiritual side to a lot of these stories. The character's will frequently get bogged down in the material world, senseless cruelty and the pain of everyday living. Frank will get caught up in the excitement of novelty which warps or harms him in the end, Manhog will be tortured or tormented by the other characters only to lash out when given any freedom, etc. But sometimes they will strive for something beyond that, or come to some betterment of themselves, if only for a single story.
Woodring's Frank stories are unique and enjoyable to read. He has a solid sense of panel to panel pacing, and his art is incredible. I can't wait to dive into the longer narrative of One Beautiful Spring Morning to see what he does with more space.
But even though that was maybe a decade ago, I recognized the character as I was browsing the stacks of my local library (though what I saw first was One Beautiful Spring Day, a later collection) and decided to check it out.
Woodrings Frank stories are like old silent cartoons (which are frequently more bizarre than most know without going back and watching them) being acted out in a surreal landscape, one that is in many ways familiar to our own but more bizarre in others. Characters will suffer horrible cruelties, or bizarre transformations. Thing's that would get laughed off in a cartoon will be depicted with shocking reality. Ink blob demons will appear just as readily to the characters as Hindu Jiva's. It never crosses the line into edginess or pure shock value, but it feels like watching a dream shift back and forth into a nightmare and back.
I think another part of what makes these stories feel so unique is that there's also frequently a spiritual side to a lot of these stories. The character's will frequently get bogged down in the material world, senseless cruelty and the pain of everyday living. Frank will get caught up in the excitement of novelty which warps or harms him in the end, Manhog will be tortured or tormented by the other characters only to lash out when given any freedom, etc. But sometimes they will strive for something beyond that, or come to some betterment of themselves, if only for a single story.
Woodring's Frank stories are unique and enjoyable to read. He has a solid sense of panel to panel pacing, and his art is incredible. I can't wait to dive into the longer narrative of One Beautiful Spring Morning to see what he does with more space.
August 15, 2023
It's Frank, but slightly smaller and less comprehensive than what you get with Wooding's The Frank Book. But at any size, Woodring's "Frank" stories are the pinnacle of surrealist dream logic comics. The stories are entirely wordless but relatively simple enough to follow despite the bizarre dreamscapes and odd characters. Woodring is able to tap into something innate in the shared subconscious of humanity to carve out something that feels truly alien while also nostalgic and familiar all at once. Though the absurdity can get potent here to the point of bordering on horror, there are bits of witty humor that keeps things from getting too dark. I particularly enjoy the wordplay in some of his titles, like "Frank's Faux Pa" and "Frank's Real Pa". This is definitely a great addition to any Woodring fan's library.
April 9, 2020
Precyzyjnie 4,2
“Podróże Franka” Jima Woodringa to kolejna okazja do nadrobienia klasycznych zaległości z Zachodu. Komiks jest pierwszą polską prezentacją jednego z dwóch najważniejszych dokonań mistrza amerykańskiego komiksu niezależnego.
Nieme opowieści o Franku, uczłowieczonym zwierzaku nieokreślonego gatunku, wyjętym jakby żywcem z kreskówki, przeżywającym surrealistyczne przygody w fantastycznym świecie znanym jako Unifactor, przyniosły mu wiele nagród Harveya i pochwały innych mistrzów gatunku (m. in. Daniel Clowes, Alan Moore). Sama postać zyskała status kultowy.
CZYTAJ WIĘCEJ: https://www.kanonkomiksu.net.pl/podro...
“Podróże Franka” Jima Woodringa to kolejna okazja do nadrobienia klasycznych zaległości z Zachodu. Komiks jest pierwszą polską prezentacją jednego z dwóch najważniejszych dokonań mistrza amerykańskiego komiksu niezależnego.
Nieme opowieści o Franku, uczłowieczonym zwierzaku nieokreślonego gatunku, wyjętym jakby żywcem z kreskówki, przeżywającym surrealistyczne przygody w fantastycznym świecie znanym jako Unifactor, przyniosły mu wiele nagród Harveya i pochwały innych mistrzów gatunku (m. in. Daniel Clowes, Alan Moore). Sama postać zyskała status kultowy.
CZYTAJ WIĘCEJ: https://www.kanonkomiksu.net.pl/podro...
October 30, 2021
I only bought this compilation of comics because I got it for dirt cheap. The only things new here are the accompanying paratexts, comic story names, and maybe two to four illustrations. But it's true what they say: You can always re-read these stories and there are new things you will find and new thoughts that will cross your mind to inspire you.
February 23, 2020
Rozebírat Franka je uplně stejně otravná blbost jako rozebírat Lynchovo filmy. Je to akorát na pěst. Takhle surrealismus postavenej převážně na snech nebo “pomocnejch substancích” nefunguje. Buď se vám líbí a emocionálně s váma rezonuje nebo ne. Tím to hasne.
A mně se líbí. :)
A mně se líbí. :)
October 10, 2020
Love it. Jim Woodring’s line textures, black and white balance, and panel compositions are very pleasant to engage with. Obviously it’s been said before but man, what a unique treasure this guy’s work is.
April 23, 2024
Mediocre non-story hidden behind weirdness.
May 21, 2024
this richly detailed comic, relying on body language to tell weird stories, amazes me. I can’t think of of another comic that comes close to Woodrings’ imaginative world.
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