WOODRING JIM

(P/B) ONE BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY
A mesmerizing, mind-bending, wordless 400 page comics odyssey by a contemporary master of the form. Jim Woodring has been chronicling the adventures of his cartoon Everyman, Frank, for almost 30 years. These stories are a singular rarity in the comics form - both bone-chillingly physical in their depictions of Frank's travails and profoundly metaphysical at the same time. Not since George Herriman's Krazy Kat has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure, revelatory aesthetic expression. Designed as a luxe paperback with ...
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(H/B) ' AND NOW SIR... IS THIS YOUR MISSING GONAD? '
A unique detour into the deepest corners of the Unifactor. And Now, Sir - Is This Your Missing Gonad? brings to your fun-hungry hands over 113 choice and previously unpublished images created by cartooning visionary Jim Woodring between 2009 and 2019 for his private amusement. Featuring Woodring's familiar cast of characters from such canonical graphic novels as Congress of the Animals and Poochytown, but with a twist! Woodring has enlisted the mysterious Walter Foxglove, The Smartest Artist, to undertake the huge task of restoring to thes...
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(P/B) THE FRANK BOOK
FRANK is such a strange creation that I hardly know how to describe it. Wordless, timeless, placeless, full of unprecedented characters and experiences, it exists on its own bizarre terms. It offers vivid tableaus of tenderness and bloodshed, cruelty and sacrifice, love and betrayal, terror and bliss; and it offers them wrapped like candies from another planet. The artist has always used his or her inner "stuff", the very substance of the soul, mixing it with the subject's own essence and deriving droplets of imagery from this alchemy. Jim...
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(H/B) 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 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? That question is answered in Congress of the Animals, Jim Woodring's much-anticipated second full-length g...
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(P/B) THE PORTABLE FRANK
A Visionary work of comic art for all-ages! Readers who haven’t discovered Jim Woodring’s Frank stories have a colossal treat waiting for them in this all-ages gem collecting the character’s greatest adventures. 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, unravel like a good puzzle, rewarding re-reading, providing an experience as immersive as that first love affair, tha...
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(H/B) SEEING THINGS (1560976489)

THE FRANK BOOK (1560975342) (H/B)

TROSPER (1560974265) (P/B)