Jim Woodring - The Portable Frank

The world of 'Frank' is inscrutable and surreal, populated by grotesque, non-speaking animal-humanoids moving through a fluid landscape filled with peculiar amoebic and geometric formations and phenomena, not so much abstract as reminiscent of a distorted naturalism, rendered in the stark black and white lines and fills of Woodring's drawing style. I'm not sure how much I like these cartoons 'as such', but I do certainly respond to their uncompromisingness - there's something striking about them.



(A Christmas gift from Julian F.)