In honor of Frank s 20th anniversary Fantagraphics is re-releasing the massive, long out of printFrank 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. "

Frank is, as everyone knows, Jim Woodring s best-selling cartoon character. Jim, on the other hand, is Woodring s cartoon alter ego, the fictional doppelganger who has for 30 years inhabited Woodring s alternate universe where shifting, phantasmagoric landscapes, abrupt, hallucinatory visual revelations, and unexpected eruptions of uninhibited verbal self-flagellation are commonplace. Jim is a mind-bending collection of all of Woodring s best non-Frank creative work comics stories, prose stories, drawings, and paintings, with a new introduction and afterword by the man himself. Abounding in...

Weathercraft is acclaimed cartoonist and painter Jim Woodring s first full-length graphic novel (and first of a graphic novel trilogy, all to be re-released by Fantagraphics). 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...

Trpí snad na světě někdo víc než Prasan? Napůl člověk, napůl vepř, protlouká se životem a schytává rány ze všech stran. Osud tomu ovšem chce, aby se vydal na cestu za osvícením. Pod nohy mu přitom hází klacky zlomyslný škodolibec Rozmar a zpovzdálí tahají za nitky prapodivné vědmy Betty a Veronika. Podaří se Prasanovi všechny nástrahy překonat? Podá mu pomocnou ruku kolemjdoucí dvounožec Frank? A co je to pověstné mrakobití? Vítejte v Unifaktoru, fantastickém vesmíru, kde si logika vzala dovolenou a optické klamy budou s vaším zrakem tancovat...