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Freaks
Adaptación a historieta de la película de culto.
- GenresComicsGraphic Novels
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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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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January 19, 2016Adaptación a historieta de la película homónima, a cargo de Woodring y Solano López.
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July 9, 2016La peli me gustó, Solano me encanta. Lo único que me da desconfianza es la editorial y la fecha, pero ya veremos...
January 19, 2022
“We have a code, we different ones. A bond of honor one might say. Even if you had been true… even if you had truly loved me… there would have been this between you and me: that you are not one of us. …And neither of us could have been truly happy until you were.”
What an adaptation that was. Jim Woodring and F. Solano Lopez bring Tod Browning's 1932 picture brilliantly to comic format, and in my opinion, due to the difference in time and format, better than Browning was able to at the time. I love the illustrations from F. Solano Lopez and Woodring's little additions to the story that just make the world feel a little more lived in and believable when compared to the film. I also enjoyed the much darker and graphic depiction of the ending, shown in Issue #4. I know this was due to Film Production Codes at the time, but even if the film had been made when the Codes were lifted, we would not have seen anything near as graphic as what is depicted in the comic. Overall a very faithful and worthwhile adaptation that anyone who is a fan of the film will enjoy.
What an adaptation that was. Jim Woodring and F. Solano Lopez bring Tod Browning's 1932 picture brilliantly to comic format, and in my opinion, due to the difference in time and format, better than Browning was able to at the time. I love the illustrations from F. Solano Lopez and Woodring's little additions to the story that just make the world feel a little more lived in and believable when compared to the film. I also enjoyed the much darker and graphic depiction of the ending, shown in Issue #4. I know this was due to Film Production Codes at the time, but even if the film had been made when the Codes were lifted, we would not have seen anything near as graphic as what is depicted in the comic. Overall a very faithful and worthwhile adaptation that anyone who is a fan of the film will enjoy.
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