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Informationen zum Autor Jim Woodring lives on Vashon Island in Washington State's Puget Sound with his wife, Mary. The recipient of numerous award -- including The Stranger's Genius Award for Literature -- he is an animator and a fine artist as well as a cartoonist. Klappentext In this all-new, original graphic novel from an acknowledged master, Frank's found a soulmate. Zusammenfassung For the past 20 years or so! Jim Woodring's beloved trilobular chuckbusterFrank has enjoyed one mindbending catastrophe after another in the treacherousembrace of The Unifactor! the land into which he was born and from which escapeseemed neither desirable nor likely. And then! abruptly! in 2011's acclaimedCongress of the Animals (the second Woodring original graphic novel! followingWeathercraft) Frank did leave the Unifactor for uncharted lands beyond where!after a string of trials! he acquired a soulmate named Fran. This developmentraised far more questions than it answered. Would Frank become placid anddomesticated? Would he be jilted? Would he turn out to be a dreadful cad? Wouldhe become a downtrodden and exhausted paterfamilias staring vacantly into thedimming fire of life as obnoxious grandchildren pulled his peglike ears andstole his porridge? The answers to these fruitless speculations and many moreare delivered in a devastatingly unpredictable fashion in Fran! which is ineffect part two of Congress of the Animals. Fans of Frank! connoisseurs ofbizarre romance! and spelunkers in the radiant depths of graphic metaphysicalpsychodrama will want to add this singular cartoon adventure story to theirlifetime reading list.
