Awards

• Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Graphic Novel) 2010

Overview

For over 20 years, Jim Woodring has delighted, touched and puzzled readers around the world with his lush, wordless tales of 'Frank'. This is the first graphic novel set in Frank's universe, featuring the same hypnotically gorgeous linework and mystical iconography. Weathercraft sees Manhog embark upon a transformative journey. He wants to go to celestial realms but instead returns to the Unifactor to undo a wrong he has brought about: the transformation of the evil politician Whim into a mind-destroying plant demon. Manhog sets out for a final battle with Whim...

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Superb.--Douglas Wolk The work, which centers on the evolutionary and spiritual journey of Manhog, is breathtakingly original, and looking at it just brings home to me how timid many of us in [the cartooning] business are.--Rod McKie Starred Review. A book that sticks with you like a virus, Woodring's newest collection of tales of vague morality and definite oddity keeps intact his status as one of comics most eccentric auteurs. The ancient myths and folk tales of all cultures which have been preserved for so many centuries have meaning for us today because the fantastic elements in them are rooted in immutable reality. The Frank stories belong to this class of literature.--Francis Ford Coppola 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.--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 There's not much point in trying to sum up the story of this comic. There's no text, the art is beautiful, and you're totally consumed by the world he's created and you exist inside it while you're reading it.--Nick Gazin The Frank stories have a meditative, hallucinatory feel... They tap into a universal consciousness of archetypes. But ultimately Frank tells one story, everyone's story, the same story as life: 'How Laughably Absurd It All Is.' [Woodring] has been called one of the great cartoonists of his generation and at this point, there's little doubt of his visual storytelling prowess. But it's the intense, visionary images and worlds that spring from his mind and on to his pages that truly separates him from his peers.--Paul Rios Weathercraft paints small moments of beauty and mystery on a huge canvas of twisted wonder. --Jason Michelitch

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

The ancient myths and folk tales of all cultures which have been preserved for so many centuries have meaning for us today because the fantastic elements in them are rooted in immutable reality. The Frank stories belong to this class of literature. -- Francis Ford Coppola

Author Information

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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