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One Beautiful Spring Day
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This work will captivate readers of ambitious graphic novels, fans of surreal and metaphysical storytelling, and those seeking deeply artistic and visionary comics. It especially appeals to followers of innovative, character-driven narratives and admirers of Jim Woodring's distinctive style.
A mesmerizing, mind-bending, wordless 400 page comics odyssey by a contemporary master of the form.
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The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022
The Washington Post, Best Graphic Novels of 2022
The Guardian, Best Graphic Novels of 2022
Jim Woodring has been chronicling the adventures of his cartoon Everyman, Frank, for almost 30 years. These stories are a singular rarity in the comics form—both bone-chillingly physical in their depictions of Frank's travails and profoundly metaphysical at the same time. Not since George Herriman's Krazy Kat has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure, revelatory aesthetic expression.
Designed as a luxe paperback with vellum jacket, One Beautiful Spring Day combines three previously published volumes—Congress of the Animals, where Frank embarked upon a life-changing voyage of discovery, Fran, where he learned, then forgot, that things are not always what they seem, and Poochytown, in which Frank demonstrated his dizzying capacity for both nobility and ignominy—along with 100 dazzling new pages conceived and drawn by the author. The result is a seamless, 400-page graphic narrative that forges a new and even more poignantly realised single story that takes readers deep into the hidden meanings of the previous stories and offers the most full, complete, astonishing exposition of Frank and his supercharged world to date.
Frank's curiosity and risk-taking, mixed with a dose of, let's face it, wanton recklessness, takes him on a series of terrifying peregrinations that often leave his soul and body shattered, and the reader in a state of creative exaltation. Suffice it to say that if you are a friend to Frank, you will find One Beautiful Spring Day to be a thousand-course feast of agonising bliss, soul-stirring mystery, and luminous depth. This is undoubtedly one of the great novels of the 21st century, graphic or otherwise.
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A complex, cohesive, deeply affecting epic lauded for its hallucinatory adventure and raw self-disclosure, according to Library Journal and Booklist. The novel is praised for its dream logic storytelling reminiscent of Dore and Dalí, with The New Yorker noting its 'otherworldly specificity' and The New York Times highlighting Woodring's remarkable gifts as a draftsman and storyteller. Writer Jonathan Lethem celebrates Woodring's mind-expanding narratives as a unique voyage into the visceral sublime.
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ISBN: 9781683965558
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 August 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Illustration: 1 Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 217.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 408
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About the Author
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.
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