{"title":"Books by Jim Woodring","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781683965558","title":"One Beautiful Spring Day","description":"Jim Woodring has been chronicling the adventures of his cartoon Everyman, Frank, for almost 30 years. These stories are a singular rarity in the comics form - both bone-chillingly physical in their depictions of Frank's travails and profoundly metaphysical at the same time. Not since George Herriman's Krazy Kat has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure, revelatory aesthetic expression. Designed as a luxe paperback with vellum jacket, One Beautiful Spring Day combines three previously published volumes -Congress of the Animals, where Frank embarked upon a life-changing voyage of discovery, Fran, where he learned, then forgot, that things are not always what they seem, and Poochytown in which Frank demonstrated his dizzying capacity for both nobility and ignominy - along with 100 dazzling new pages conceived and drawn by the author. The result is a seamless, 400 page graphic narrative that forges a new and even more poignantly realized single story that takes readers deep into the hidden meanings of the previous stories and offers the most full, complete, astonishing exposition of Frank and his supercharged world to date. Frank's curiosity and risk-taking mixed with a dose of, let's face it, wanton recklessness, takes him on a series of terrifying peregrinations that often leave his soul and body shattered, and the reader in a state of creative exaltation. Suffice to say that if you are a friend to Frank you will find One Beautiful Spring Day to be a thousand-course feast of agonizing bliss, soul-stirring mystery and luminous depth. This is undoubtedly one of the great novels of the 21st century, graphic or otherwise.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204725276850,"sku":"9781683965558","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781683965558.jpg?v=1786024965"},{"product_id":"9781606995006","title":"The Frank Book","description":"In honour of Frank's 20th anniversary, Fantagraphics is releasing the massive, long out of print Frank Book omnibus, which collects all the Frank material up to the mid-noughties, including several jaw-droppingly beautiful full-colour stories, literally dozens of lushly-delineated b\/w stories and a treasure trove of covers and illustrations - both in a new printing of the hardback and the first edition of a new paperback.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301885391221,"sku":"9781606995006","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781606995006_f92b39be-a63f-4d06-b8b6-9275f0e8971c.jpg?v=1786023586"},{"product_id":"9781606999776","title":"Weathercraft","description":"Weathercraft stars Manhog, who, after 32 pages of almost incomprehensible suffering, 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","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304946577781,"sku":"9781606999776","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781606999776_f8ead9d8-18f2-4092-9b7d-dcfc2c135611.jpg?v=1786023611"},{"product_id":"quacky","title":"Quacky","description":"Jim Woodring has been drawing the otherworldly, allegorical adventures of his cartoon Everycreature, Frank, for three and a half decades. These stories are a singular rarity in the comics form - both bone-chillingly physical in their depictions of Frank's travails and profoundly metaphysical at the same time. Not since George Herriman's Krazy Kat has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure, revelatory aesthetic expression. With Quacky, Woodring adopts the format of 1930s Big Little Books to deliver a text story with illustrations, in which the typically nonplussed Frank's reactions are told to us explicitly, through narration and his own thoughts. Frank is buffeted by generosity, anguished to see how loving friends perceive him, distraught by the process of ageing and physical transformation in a beloved pet, delighted by nature and physical experiences shared with others, and ultimately sees a path toward radical acceptance in the face of trauma. Frank cast regulars Pupshaw, Pushpaw and Manhog are here, along with new entries to Frank's world of the Unifactor. And, in a backup feature, we meet a cast of toontown pigs in a story that undercuts the kiddie book format: 'Hoggy Goes Hogwild.' Cunningham, the clever pig who helps all his friends, and his confirmed fiancee, Porceline, are called on to assist local pal Hoggy - who turns out to have gone on a violent crime spree, presaging a possible psychotic break. Jim Woodring is back, and no two worlds wouldn't be the same without him.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57502353064309,"sku":"9798875002335","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798875002335.jpg?v=1786781230"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jim-woodring.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}