Books by Jim Woodring
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review 1: I'm normally a little wary of totally silent comic books. There are very few people who can pull off that trick of creating a compelling and engaging story with no words at all. Jim Woodring is one of those people, and his protagonist Frank (an anthropomorphic creature who look...
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review 1: The line work alone makes this a marvel, but it is particularly fascinating for the little story of love and loss it relates, but it is especially fascinating for the way it complements and completes Congress of Animals, which was a bit of a puzzle plot-wise before. I think Fran ...
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review 1: Possibly the most accessible of Woodring's work. This does not mean interpreting the text is easier, but following the sequential narrative isn't too challenging. I'd like to reread "Weathercraft" because I've either gotten more accustomed to reading Woodring's work, or he his s...
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review 1: The first "novel" in the Frank series. The central character this time, however, isn't the purple gormless chuckbuster as usual, but instead his repulsive foil Manhog who, upon the arrival of two bird-legged witches who can manipulate the weather among other things, is forced to ...
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review 1: I don't think I can say it better than Chris Ware when he says Jim Woodring is "trying to feel eternity within the universal rhythms, gestures and silent music of the corporeal, self-deluding persona."I was intrigued, as I often am, by the deep strangeness of Jim Woodring's art, ...
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review 1: Jim Woodring is among my favorite authors; I could stare at his drawings all day, everyday. Despite its seeming abstruseness, the Unifactor maintains an internal logic which grounds the comedy as well as the despair of the Frank books -- and, of course, the aesthetics of the worl...