The comic-book artist’s wordless woodcut-style images have created a world inhabited by his woodland critter Frank that is both surreal and terrifyingThe meticulous (extremely careful about details),surreal cartoons of Jim Woodring are some of the most highly regarded in comics nowadays. There aren’t really words to represent them, which is appropriate, and because the stories of Woodring’s odd tiny woodland critter Frank are wordless,our hero’s adventures taking location purely through vivid pictures rendered in a style like a woodcut. That clarity is deceptive: Frank’s world – called the Unifactor – is terrifying and bizarre, filled with uncommon beings like the Whim (a tiny figure with a stick-thin body and a pair of devilish horns), and the Manhog,and Frank’s pets, Pushpaw and Pupshaw. Continue reading...
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