Title: FRANK (Volume 1) Author: Jim Woodring
Editorial: PIMENTEL FULGENCIO
Pages: 180
PVP: 30 €
Reading Frank experienced the fascination I felt when I read my first book. Of that many years ago, almost thirty, and I was then a boy of GBS began to understand the words. On that occasion it was The End of Eternity, the novel of love and time travel of Isaac Asimov, and see that it was not exactly high literature. Of Me, the memory that holds one of the first things, you know, is unforgettable, as is always for me that experience, my joyful entrance into the world of fantasy writing. I remember the joy, excitement, aesthetics, but above all intellectual, my mind in training,
feeling of having my eyes against infinite territory, bigger than the world and nature, expandable than the universe. Feel this same three decades, hundreds of books and thousands of readings later, is not common, and other exclusive merit marvelous and imaginative art of Jim Woodring (Los Angeles, 1952). Francis Ford Coppola says in the introduction included in this first volume in the series, edited with care by Fulgencio Pimentel: "Frank is a creation so weird that I do not know where to begin to describe it. (...) Frank's only in their own unique terms. It knows no time or space, or language. What does not prevent him giving us his vivid retablos of tenderness and slaughter, at slaughter and cruelty, love and disloyalty, altarpieces that come to us carefully wrapped, as if they were trinkets of this world. " Krazy like a cat, dog or duck Howard Snoopy, much of
creatures that populate Frank belong to the subgenre of the anthropomorphic, but not all. Manhog, Whim, Lucky Frank himself or have hands and legs and head with eyes and mouth, but not the o Jivas Cart Blanche, part skeleton, part table with wheels. And yes, it is certainly strange, surreal and wonderful, creating Woodring, so that, before walking babbling, I prefer to cite the author and let yourself get an idea. According to the Dramatis Personae of the book, Jivas are "conditioned souls", the Whim, "another bad idea that found its way peripatetic and came to life as such"; Manhog, "a bladder stuffed with sin that creeps on all four limbs" , and that "would like nothing more than to get away from everything and everyone forever" while Frank and I quote the words of the epilogue, "not a cat or a mouse or a beaver, or any other sort of creature, but a generic anthropomorphic (will not be) nothing anyone or (ha) to meet expectation. " find that the publication in the English market of Frank's that today qualifies event too happily, that is, an event that is important. The book brings the reader in English an extraordinary work, poetic and visually powerful. A rare and unique gem, one of those that enrich and elevate the middle of the story. I recommend that you do not miss it. Javier Fernández
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