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Frank
Frank, Vol. 2
Written and illustrated (in stunning full color) by Lewis Trondheim, the hottest European cartooning talent to emerge in the 1990s, Harum Scarum mixes sardonic wit with a genuinely thrilling story that involves a plague of monsters, a fake paleontologist, a secret formula, the search for a perfect headline, and more The second book, The Hoodoodad, continues in this farcical vein, mixing elements of Tintin and The Three Stooges in a way that will thrill children and adults alike.
96 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1995
About the author
Jim Woodring
169 books224 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 6, 2020
'Frank' is one of the most beautiful and most original comic series ever made. Jim Woodring's command of pen and ink is no less than astounding, and also his colored panels are of a rare beauty. No less impressive are Woodring's fantastic tales, which follow their own internal logic, but which lead to the most mesmerizing images possible. What's even better is that Woodring manages to tell his evocative stories by images only, without a single line of dialogue.
Frank lives in a surreal and wondrous, but also a hostile, violent and dangerous world full of strange beings like a cone-shaped chicken, a man with an elongated face, and a dangerous devil-like creature. Frank's house-shaped pet has to rescue his master several times. Many of Frank's adventures also feature man-hog, who's the star of the only adventure with added text (below the panels). This is a particularly gruesome tale, but once again, beautifully drawn...
There's simply nothing like the bizarre, yet gorgeous world of Frank. This is art that simply knows no equal.
Frank lives in a surreal and wondrous, but also a hostile, violent and dangerous world full of strange beings like a cone-shaped chicken, a man with an elongated face, and a dangerous devil-like creature. Frank's house-shaped pet has to rescue his master several times. Many of Frank's adventures also feature man-hog, who's the star of the only adventure with added text (below the panels). This is a particularly gruesome tale, but once again, beautifully drawn...
There's simply nothing like the bizarre, yet gorgeous world of Frank. This is art that simply knows no equal.
February 12, 2018
I am forever amazed with Mr. Woodring’s imagination.
July 30, 2021
It's fun and has "trippy" art but there isn't much substance to it.
Nonetheless, it's still very enjoyable.
Nonetheless, it's still very enjoyable.
November 1, 2023
love it
June 19, 2012
Visually arresting, whether in color or black and white. I just discovered Woodring for myself and am already a fan.
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