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A good book with beautiful pictures and funny stories.


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Frank Book The Jim Woodring Books Reviews

everything this guy does is wondrous, beautiful art. I wish there was more color stuff in this book but it's still worth the price.. I guess hehe I mean he won't find anything like it anywhere else so just buy it and give it to somebody. huge bonus if you give it to somebody who's familiar with with Salvia Divinorum, as that is the source of this man's inspiration. the stories are profoundly pool if you bother to follow them and not just look at the pictures )
I've been following the work of Jim Woodring, in particular the Frank stories, since the late nineties. He is one of the few artists able to translate the rules and revelations of dreaming into something cohesive and beautiful. Many try it, but most fail. Everyone finds their own dreams fascinating, but listening to someone else recount the 'crazy nightmare' they had last night is always a mind-numbingly dull experience. Even the best writers struggle and fail when it comes to incorporating dreams into their stories. Paintings, however, in particular the canvases of Dali, Ernst, Delvaux, Beksinski and Neo Rauch, seem far better suited to reproducing elements from dream. Film, too, has proven to be a medium able to play with the stuff of dreams, as the films of David Lynch demonstrate. Sequential Art is perhaps better equipped than any other, including Film and Painting, at representing both the visual idiosyncrasies and internal logic of the human subconcious. The earliest masterpiece in Comics history, dating back to 1905, is 'Little Nemo in Slumberland', by Winsor McCay. Every Sunday, readers were dazzled by McCays' virtuosic depictions of a young boys adventures in the world of dreams, giving his imagination free rein as he illustrated monsters and mythical beings, invented worlds and strange transformations. The visual aspect is no doubt the most important reason behind the failure of prose and poetry to harness the power inherent in dreams. Jim Woodring understands that words have diminished potency in 'The Unifactor', a small corner of psychic real estate set aside in his subconscious mind. This is the world in which the 'Generalized Anthropomorph' Frank lives and plays, encountering the stupid and selfish brute known as 'Manhog', a powerful sorcerer called 'Whim', and a protective godling-pet, 'Pupshaw' (as well as her male companion, 'Pushpaw', who appears later in the stories). These tales are wordless, and require no explanations. Whatever bizarre, wonderful or horrifying events take place, they unfold according to the skewed logic of dreams, effect sometimes preceding cause. Woodrings' talent as an artist cannot be overstated. His massive, incredibly detailed charcoal drawings are in great demand, as are the 'Designer Toys' he has produced for Presspop Gallery in Japan (i.e. Lorbo) and Strangeco (i.e. Mr. Bumper). His artwork in 'The Frank Book' is pitch-perfect for the subject matter, utilizing both a highly stylized black-and-white and a brightly-colored, fully-painted technique. Both are beautiful in their own right. This volume, bearing purple-cloth covers with embossed black titles, and specially illustrated end-papers that depict a star-chart with constellations seen from the Unifactor (a Frank constellation, a Whim constellation, etc.), compliments the full-length Frank books also released by Fantagraphics. At 360 pages, this oversized collection contains over a decades worth of stories. Like The Simpsons Seasons 3 - 10, or Seinfeld Seasons 3 - 9, this is one more relic of the 1990's that never gets old. Along with Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware, Jim Woodring is one of the greatest cartoonists working today.
Well that was weird. I don't really even want to rate this it was so out there. I don't want it at zero stars though, more like a 'not rated' type of deal. Putting a label of enjoyment on this one just seems.. wrong.

Anyway, I don't know what to say about this book. Firstly I'll note that I found it (like many, many other worthwhile things) because of Duncan Trussell's podcast (which, by the way, anyone who hasn't yet should check out). He has Jim Woodring on as a guest and the conversation intrigued me, and Duncan's praise of the Frank Book did as well.

The Frank Book is a trip of sorts. Within which you will visit The Unifactor, the world in which Frank and his many acquaintances (Manhog, Whim, Pupshaw and Pushpaw, etc) reside. And what a world it is. Or isn't. In Woodring's own words, within the Unifactor 'there is no pattern, no law; only the incessant conversational cross-currents of nature and abstraction'. I couldn't have said it better myself. There is no dialogue in the Frank comics. You could refer to it as a 'silent comic' I guess, much like a silent movie. Though the term 'silent comic' seems a little redundant. In any case, no dialogue is needed for the story to play out. Now, that's not to say you'll understand it. The Frank Book almost feels like a book of little parables, completely open to interpretation by the reader. I did have a few favorites, I'll list those below because I like the names. But mostly I was struck by the pure feeling of the bizarre, and Woodring's art matches that feeling spectacularly. Check it out.

Frank in the river
Frank in the house of the dead
Frank's real pa
Frank in the wilderness
Frank and the truth about plentitude
Authorized Only*
Pushpaw
Ask the Sea
Frank and the toy without pity
Gentlemanhog
Frank obeys the rule of five*
Frank and the mystery of the instrument*
Jw is amazing at what he does. Truely a legendary and very sureal artist
Jim Woodring is fantastic........and Frank is iconic. Frank has even shown up on posters on the walls in the awesome British-TV comedy "The IT Crowd" along with other Jim Woodring art. What a mind.....what an artist......!
Jim Woodring has done way more drugs than you. Or maybe he just has a weird inner dialogue. You should own this book either way. It's amazeballs.
A good book with beautiful pictures and funny stories.