![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Frank then picks up the black jug out of which comes a black morphing figure that becomes the skinny moon-faced Whim who imprisons Frank in the mountain along with the recaptured Manhog. A man with an enormous chin fills up a black jug from the well which his prisoner, Manhog, takes outside and then runs off. Frank is angered and goes walking in the mountains where he discovers the well from his dreams in a room on the side of the mountain. Frank takes it back, sleeps on it, and it gives him nightmares of dreaming a book underwater. ![]() And then some are… well, I’ll describe one story.įrank dreams of swimming in a well so he buys a rug but Pupshaw (his “dog” for want of a better word) senses the rug is evil and tries to throw it out. His art too is superb and enormously creative.īut content-wise? Woodring could take LSD on a trip - he could teach imagination a thing or two! Some stories are straightforward: Frank gets a job, earns money, buys a house albeit in an abstract way. The stories in The Frank Book are easy to follow in a technical sense because Woodring is an excellent cartoonist who knows how to tell a story sequentially. His adventures are silent and generally black and white though there are several comics in this edition that are full colour. Jim Woodring’s Frank is a generic cat-like anthropomorph who lives in a fantastical land called the Unifactor. ![]()
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