The Portable Frank (2008)

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Author

Jim Woodring

Genre

Fantasy

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ISBN

156097978X (ISBN13: 9781560979784)

Language

English

Publisher

Fantagraphics

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About book The Portable Frank (2008)

Um espantoso mergulho num mundo onírico e psicadélico através do traço detalhado do ilustrador Jim Woodring. Com uma solidez fortíssima, alicerçada num claro traço a preto e branco, o autor mergulha-nos nas estranhas aventuras de Frank na paisagem surreal do seu mundo próprio. A lógica e a sanidade são colocadas de parte nestas histórias silenciosas, visualmente ricas, pequenas alucinações confinadas pelos limites da vinheta. Infinitely peculiar and infinitely re-readable, Frank and Pupshaw venture through their universe. You can come along if you like, but don't expect an explanation. Woodring's art - part Ub Iwerks, part Fleischer Studios, and part mushroom trip - is front and center, and carries the story because there is no dialogue. The fascination with the Frank cartoons comes from the fact that the reader enters the story by placing his/her own interpretation on the actions of the characters, which are alternately sublimely weird and utterly human. Brilliant stuff, miles above most of what passes for comics, oops, I mean, graphic novels.