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Weathercraft: A Frank Comic |  | Author: Jim Woodring
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 61052
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 104
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 1606993402
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5
EAN: 9781606993408
ASIN: 1606993402
Publication Date: June 8, 2010
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Product Description
The first graphic novel from a master of the form, co-starring his beloved “Frank” character. For over 20 years now, Jim Woodring has delighted, touched, and puzzled readers around the world with his lush, wordless tales of “Frank.” Weathercraft is Woodring’s first full-length graphic novel set in this world—indeed, Woodring’s first graphic novel, period!—and it features the same hypnotically gorgeous linework and mystical iconography. As it happens, Frank has only a brief supporting appearance in Weathercraft, which actually stars Manhog, Woodring’s pathetic, brutish everyman (or everyhog), who had previously made several appearances in “Frank” stories (as well as a stunning solo turn in the short story “Gentlemanhog”). After enduring 32 pages of almost incomprehensible suffering, Manhog embarks upon a transformative journey and attains enlightenment. He wants to go to celestial realms but instead altruistically returns to the unifactor to undo a wrong he has inadvertently brought about: The transformation of the evil politician Whim into a mind-destroying plant-demon who distorts and enslaves Frank and his friends. The new and metaphysically expanded Manhog sets out for a final battle with Whim... Weathercraft also co-stars Frank’s cast of beloved supporting characters, including Frank’s Faux Pa and the diminutive, mailbox-like Pupshaw and Pushpaw; it is both a fully independent story that is a great introduction to Woodring’s world, and a sublime addition to, and extension of, the Frank stories. Weathercraft will be a defining graphic novel of 2010. 104 pages of black-and-white comics
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Pure uncut Woodring June 7, 2010
Philip M. Cohen (West Chester, PA United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Jim Woodring has an imagination that no other cartoonist can match in strangeness, originality, and coherence. There may be a few who can produce weirder images meaningful only to themselves, but none who can turn such images into a story. A story set in a strange landscape that seems to make an alien sense but is never fully comprehensible, a story whose main characters often have humanlike personalities but interact easily with incomprehensible beings around them, but still a satisfying story. His early work was taken from his own nightmares and made me glad I wasn't him, but more recently he's concentrated on wordless tales of Frank and Pushpaw and Manhog. Weathercraft is several times longer than any previous story, and it's Woodring at the top of his form. If you have a taste for uneasy-making strangeness, you can't do better than this book. Look inside it and see for yourself.
Deeper than you think... July 19, 2010
Kgar (SF, CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For those unfamiliar with the Frank series here's the basic idea...
The stories are wordless and take place in a dreamlike world inhabited by a cast of strange characters, each one being a unique archetype (see the back cover for a brief description of each). FRANK is a cat/mouse-like anthropomorph, who is typically the central character. In Weathercraft, Man Hog is the star and Frank is a background character....
I have long been a fan of this series and my appreciation for Jim Woodring's draftsmanship and depth of storytelling continues to grow. Before actually reading Weathercraft, I was lucky enough to attend a book signing event where Jim Woodring gave a slide show presentation on his art. In response to a question during the Q&A he spoke at length about the meaning of a scene in the middle of the story where Man Hog sees a series of weird visions (or tableaus). I won't go into detail on what he said, but what he demonstrated is that far more thought and meaning is embedded in this story than the casual observer will realize.
I have since bought and read Weathercraft. I read it closely and slowly. Then again.... and now three times, taking 45 minutes to an hour each reading. If you wanted to, you could read this story in ten minutes. But did you look at the creatures dressed as royalty, did you notice how their manipulations from afar affected Man Hog? Did you see that creature in the background? Did you notice the clues, the relationships, the recurring symbols, the causes and effects...?
Sure, there are plenty of funny and cute and simple scenes in Weathercraft, but much like the films of Stanley Kubrick or David Lynch, readers willing to really delve deep will find this to be a rich work, executed with meticulous technical skill.
Woodring is some kind of weird genius. June 12, 2010
Jeffrey A. Dickinson (Columbus, OH)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you buy this I promise the characters and landscapes will begin to work their way into your dreams.
You will understand it even if you don't think you do. Just wait a day or two...
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