{"product_id":"the-frank-book","title":"The Frank Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Jim Woodring. Published by Fantagraphics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 352 pages, Colour and B\u0026amp;W, 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe definitive collection of Jim Woodring's mysterious anthropomorph!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 1991, Jim Woodring's lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled readers the world over, and the runaway success of the Frank-co-starring graphic novel Weathercraft and the first true Frank graphic novel Congress of the Animals have only whetted readers' appetites for more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn honor of Frank's 20th anniversary Fantagraphics is re-releasing the massive, long out of print Frank Book omnibus, which collected all the Frank material up to the mid-aughts, including several jaw-droppingly beautiful full-color stories, literally dozens of lushly-delineated black-and-white stories, and a treasure trove of covers and illustrations. The Frank Book also features an introduction by one of Frank's biggest fans (himself a Frank, or almost): Francis Ford Coppola.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Over the last few decades, Jim Woodring has been drawing a series of wordless, blissfully cruel slapstick fables, set in a world of grotesque entities and psychedelic minarets: half unshakable nightmare, half Chuck Jones cartoon filtered through the Bhagavad Gita.\" — The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Woodring is fantastic... his stuff will outlast all but one in a thousand of his peers. His stuff is a revelation.\" — Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Woodring suggests that each strip is intended to be a mystery but that one concept runs through each one, like a sort of moral. . . this obscurity and strangeness is a large part of what gives the book its charm.\" — Grovel\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62650600456522,"sku":"frankbook","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8894\/4822\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_83a57f15-c6f5-4521-b334-53025b3e95a3.jpg?v=1783525528","url":"https:\/\/littledeercomics.ie\/products\/the-frank-book","provider":"Little Deer Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}