{"product_id":"one-beautiful-spring-day-by-jim-woodring-9781683965558","title":"One Beautiful Spring Day","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, Best Books of 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, Best Graphic Novels of 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, Best Graphic Novels of 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJim 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 \u003cem\u003eKrazy Kat\u003c\/em\u003e has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure, revelatory aesthetic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned as a luxe paperback with vellum jacket, \u003cem\u003eOne Beautiful Spring Day\u003c\/em\u003e combines three previously published volumes—\u003cem\u003eCongress of the Animals\u003c\/em\u003e, where Frank embarked upon a life-changing voyage of discovery, \u003cem\u003eFran\u003c\/em\u003e, where he learned, then forgot, that things are not always what they seem, and \u003cem\u003ePoochytown\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrank'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 \u003cem\u003eOne Beautiful Spring Day\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597428965612,"sku":"9781683965558","price":94.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/dfaa6b05d22bf2c4a8405bac5070a170.jpg?v=1777959127","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/one-beautiful-spring-day-by-jim-woodring-9781683965558","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}