Jim Woodring's Frank comic book: the culmination of the cartoon?

“I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.”
-- Jim Woodring

I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar. Jim Woodring
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I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar. Jim Woodring
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/jim_woodring

So as it goes, I feel bad again... But there is something that makes me happy kinda. And since I am so depressed masturbation isn't even fun, but then again I haven't been watching alternative-porn, no, I have been thinking about Jim Woodring, and his Coppola approved work of art Frank.
   Frank, is special. It was one of the first introduction to a type of art that has been a fascination of mine for most of my life. You know, figurative art that deals with abstractions. Where the real representation of ideas is handled in a way that subverts 's narrative while still indulging in the form.
   I read the comic when I was fifteen and found that there was something that rivaled my love of Edward Gorey, though I still think that Mr. Gorey is still my all time favorite visual artist. But Jim Woodring's work is just as surreal while fetishizing an utterly different branch of culture while still having a maddening depth.

Frank is the ultimate cartoon anamorphic animal story and is also a significant work of surrealism. Its subtle automation of the mind is disturbingly relatable and almost impossible to pinpoint down to the point of naming what exactly they are.
   It uses a degree of slapstick in its universe but mostly relies on a vocabulary of its own invention that still culminates in a mode of expression it only casually has a relationship too. Frank is a Fletcher brother style of the universe that feel's like it is one of the few true eirs of Andre Breton's manifestoes.
   The beauty of this is that it somehow doesn't elevate the form of comics so much as gives it a sense of pupose, hiding the secrets between the panels while driving us forward with its insane free association narrative. Lord is it beautiful. Just how much can be said with lines on a page.  Sorry if this did not do the comic justice, just taking a break to share some random musings on something that interest me.