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Frank is a unique, visionary comic, exquisitely drawn and so fully realised that adults and children alike find themselves pulled deeply into Woodring's hallucinatory mindscape. For all its mystery, though, the world of Frank is a simple, delightful, mesmerising example of world-building at its most fanciful and is sure to delight parents and children alike.

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All of Jim Woodring's glorious Frank stories are so terribly inviting that it is difficult to pick just one. ... Fantagraphics' collection of short Frank stories is a great sampler, like a glass of water from the Challenger Deep.--Sam Thielman The Guardian Frank's universe follows its own inscrutable laws that are very reminiscent [of] a dream's free association.--PJ McGee and Ian Johnson Comics Foundry Jim Woodring has been to another spiritual plane, vibrant and frightening, familiar yet totally alien, a place that lives deep inside all our consciousnesses...colorful hallucinatory vistas providing the backdrop for the most primal tales of doing and undoing.-- Dig Comics As with so many works of near-genius, the first reaction to reading Woodring's perplexing, bewitching Frank is bafflement, followed not long after by wonder and delight.-- Publishers Weekly

Frank's universe follows its own inscrutable laws that are very reminiscent [of] a dream's free association. -- PJ McGee and Ian Johnson

Frank s universe follows its own inscrutable laws that are very reminiscent [of] a dream s free association. --PJ McGee and Ian Johnson

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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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