The Portable Frank: 0 - Tapa blanda

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

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. "

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

All ofJim 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"

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

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

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.

Frank is a unique, visionary comic, exquisitely drawn and so fully realized that adults and children alike find themselves drawn deeply into Woodring's hallucinatory mindscape. The stories, almost entirely wordless, are told with brilliant, candy colors that people of all ages find alluring. Frank is an 11-year-old generic anthropomorph who lives in a force-laden landscape called the Unifactor. He is curious but not smart, naïve but not noble, and his most outstanding character trait is his ineducability. Along with Pupshaw, Frank's semi-subservient housedog-like godling, the two traipse across their surreal landscape, occasionally encountering Manhog, the bloated bladder of sin with a heart of radiance who exists to thwart their prosperity. For all its mystery, the world of Frank is a simple, delightful, mesmerizing example of world-building at its most fanciful, surely to delight parents and children alike.