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Jim Woodring

    Jim Woodring is renowned for his surreal, often wordless comics that delve into the darker and more bizarre facets of the human psyche. His work features a captivating visual imagination and a fascination with subconscious realms, where ordinary reality dissolves and gives way to a landscape of dreams and hallucinations. Woodring explores the depths of the human mind through his iconic character Frank, whose adventures swing wildly from the sweet to the appalling, revealing the elusive absurdities of life.

    Jim Woodring
    Jim
    Storming the Eagle's Nest
    Fran
    Star Wars Tales
    One Beautiful Spring Day
    The Frank Book Softcover
    • 2024

      This collection highlights the most iconic villains from the original Star Wars trilogy, showcasing their roles and impact within the Legends continuity. Readers can expect a deep dive into the motivations, backstories, and conflicts of these formidable characters, enriching the overall Star Wars narrative. The omnibus format provides a comprehensive look at their stories, making it a must-read for fans eager to explore the darker side of the galaxy far, far away.

      Star Wars Legends: The Empire Omnibus Vol. 3
    • 2022

      One Beautiful Spring Day

      • 408 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
      4.2(243)Add rating

      This unique 400-page comic offers a captivating, wordless journey crafted by a contemporary master of the medium. The absence of text invites readers to immerse themselves fully in the intricate visuals and narrative, creating a mesmerizing experience that challenges traditional storytelling. The artwork itself serves as a powerful vehicle for emotion and imagination, making it a standout piece in the realm of graphic novels.

      One Beautiful Spring Day
    • 2020

      This collects Jim Woodring's choice and previously unpublished images and gag cartoons, created between 2009 and 2019 for his private amusement. This book features Woodring's familiar cast of characters from such canonical graphic novels as Poochytown, but with a twist! Woodring has enlisted the mysterious Walter Foxglove, The Smartest Artist (TM), to undertake the huge task of restoring to these images the notes, comments, and coarse jokes that accompanied their creation.

      "And Now, Sir... Is This Your Missing Gonad?"
    • 2018
    • 2018

      When Pupshaw and Pushpaw depart for the orgiastic delights of Poochytown, the forlorn Frank is thrown by a twist of fate into an unlikely friendship, propelling him down a long road of escapades and trials that ends in one of the most shocking acts ever depicted in the Frank canon.

      Poochytown
    • 2016

      Weathercraft

      • 104 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      3.7(37)Add rating

      Fantagraphics is proud to present a new edition of Woodring's classic graphic novel.

      Weathercraft
    • 2014

      Storming the Eagle's Nest

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.7(10)Add rating

      In a mountain resort in the Alps, Hitler built his 'Eagle's Nest' from which he conceived and directed the war. Storming the Eagle's Nest brings together these stories of the definitive account of this crucial arena of the Second World War, in which Europe's exclusive playground became a battlefield.

      Storming the Eagle's Nest
    • 2014

      Jim

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      4.0(130)Add rating

      Frank is, as everyone knows, Jim Woodring s best-selling cartoon character. Jim, on the other hand, is Woodring s cartoon alter ego, the fictional doppelganger who has for 30 years inhabited Woodring s alternate universe where shifting, phantasmagoric landscapes, abrupt, hallucinatory visual revelations, and unexpected eruptions of uninhibited verbal self-flagellation are commonplace. Jim is a mind-bending collection of all of Woodring s best non-Frank creative work comics stories, prose stories, drawings, and paintings, with a new introduction and afterword by the man himself. Abounding in metaphors if you choose to see them and naked self-disclosure if you don t, this volume of comics, prose, and images collected here for the first time is a bounty of Woodring s inspired artistry."

      Jim
    • 2013

      For the past 20 years or so, Jim Woodring’s beloved trilobular chuckbuster Frank has enjoyed one mindbending catastrophe after another in the treacherous embrace of The Unifactor, the land into which he was born and from which escape seemed neither desirable nor likely. And then, abruptly, in 2011’s acclaimed Congress of the Animals(the second Woodring original graphic novel, following Weathercraft) Frank did leave the Unifactor for uncharted lands beyond―where, after a string of trials, he acquired a soulmate named Fran. This development raised far more questions than it answered. Would Frank become placid and domesticated? Would he be jilted? Would he turn out to be a dreadful cad? Would he become a downtrodden and exhausted paterfamilias staring vacantly into the dimming fire of life as obnoxious grandchildren pulled his peglike ears and stole his porridge? The answers to these fruitless speculations and many more are delivered in a devastatingly unpredictable fashion in Fran, which is in effect part two of Congress of the Animals. Fans of Frank, connoisseurs of bizarre romance, and spelunkers in the radiant depths of graphic metaphysical psychodrama will want to add this singular cartoon adventure story to their lifetime reading list.

      Fran
    • 2013

      Problematic: Sketchbook Drawings 2004-2012

      • 300 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      If you are one of the fortunate thousands who enjoy untangling the enigmatic images that fill Jim Woodring's comics and drawings, Problematic is just the book for you to put under your pillow and dream on. Woodring is a devotee of the pocket-sized Moleskine sketchbook and has filled at least one per month since 2004. Quick concept sketches, figure studies, self-challenges, finished drawings, revenge portraits and caricatures, scene tryouts... everything goes into these idea batteries. Problematic provides the adventurous viewer with a bounty of unfiltered, hand-captured glimpses of life by an artist that Publishers Weekly called "a modern master of hallucinatory cartoon fables."

      Problematic: Sketchbook Drawings 2004-2012