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Frank
The Lute String
Jim Woodring Pupshaw, Frank and Pushpaw, Tokyo : Presspop Gallery, 2005
48 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2005
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About the author
Jim Woodring
170 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 16, 2018
I bought a collection that put together four of these frank books. It was published in Japanese, but as here is no writing or words, it was fine for me to read.
The imagination in these stories is great, improbable events, dangerous enemies, cruelty, love and anger. The first few stories had me confused, but it was as if the more I read, the more I was drawn into their world, and I stopped trying to understand what was happening, and just accepted it as reality.
Some of the stories are cruel, particularly the handling of Manhog.
I'd be interested to read an interpretation of this universe, and then go through these books again.
The imagination in these stories is great, improbable events, dangerous enemies, cruelty, love and anger. The first few stories had me confused, but it was as if the more I read, the more I was drawn into their world, and I stopped trying to understand what was happening, and just accepted it as reality.
Some of the stories are cruel, particularly the handling of Manhog.
I'd be interested to read an interpretation of this universe, and then go through these books again.
September 17, 2024
Tercer libro de Frank editado por Fulgencio pimentel.
El libro se compone de historietas mudas sobre el mundo de Frank, un personaje difícilmente descriptible. El dibujo de Woodring es muy bueno y lisérgico, un buen refrigerio para esta maldita vida moderna.
El libro se compone de historietas mudas sobre el mundo de Frank, un personaje difícilmente descriptible. El dibujo de Woodring es muy bueno y lisérgico, un buen refrigerio para esta maldita vida moderna.
January 25, 2012
So very, very strange--but very cool.
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