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In honour of Frank's 20th anniversary, Fantagraphics is releasing the massive, long out of print FRANK BOOK omnibus, which collects all the Frank material up to the mid-noughties, including several jaw-droppingly beautiful full-colour stories, literally dozens of lushly-delineated b/w stories and a treasure trove of covers and illustrations - both in a new printing of the hardback and the first edition of a new paperback.

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Over the last few decades, Jim Woodring has been drawing a series of wordless, blissfully cruel slapstick fables, set in a world of grotesque entities and psychedelic minarets: half unshakable nightmare, half Chuck Jones cartoon filtered through the Bhagavad Gita. Woodring is fantastic... his stuff will outlast all but one in a thousand of his peers. His stuff is a revelation.--Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics I can't think of much other art that's both so unironically devoted to pleasure and entertainment (in this case, in the form of funny-looking animals doing amusing things in colorful, inventively odd settings) and so deeply, primally unsettling and ambiguous.--Douglas Wolk Woodring suggests that each strip is intended to be a mystery but that one concept runs through each one, like a sort of moral. . . this obscurity and strangeness is a large part of what gives the book its charm. Happily, Woodring never tries to offer up his own explanations for what transpires in his stories. The closest he gets is some vague, oblique hints in this collection's afterword, but -- like those occasions when David Lynch pretends to try to enlighten viewers about his similarly challenging movies -- Woodring's clues only lead to more questions.--Dave Wallace

I can't think of much other art that's both so unironically devoted to pleasure and entertainment (in this case, in the form of funny-looking animals doing amusing things in colorful, inventively odd settings) and so deeply, primally unsettling and ambiguous. --Douglas Wolk

Woodring is fantastic... his stuff will outlast all but one in a thousand of his peers. His stuff is a revelation. --Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics

Woodring is fantastic... his stuff will outlast all but one in a thousand of his peers. His stuff is a revelation.--Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics

Woodring suggests that each strip is intended to be a mystery but that one concept runs through each one, like a sort of moral. . . this obscurity and strangeness is a large part of what gives the book its charm.

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Jim Woodring lives on Vashon Island in Washington State's Puget Sound with his wife, Mary. The recipient of numerous award -- including The Stranger's Genius Award for Literature -- he is an animator and a fine artist as well as a cartoonist.

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