One Beautiful Spring Day Limited Edition

Description

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 has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure, revelatory aesthetic expression. A limited and signed edition of Jim Woodring’s a mesmerizing, mind-bending, wordless 400 page comics odyssey by a contemporary master of the form. The effect is something like Doré meets Dalí: stories of pure dream logic rendered as reverently as an etching of the infant Christ. Every surface emits a kind of otherworldly specificity, both resoundingly weird and as reassuringly solid as a drafting table. One epic story at the surreal dream crossroads of zaniness, pathos, and terror. … an experience like no other in comics. A complex, cohesive, deeply affecting epic. … This hallucinatory adventure resonates with the intensity of raw self-disclosure. Mr. Woodring [has] extraordinary gifts as a draftsman, storyteller and creator of hilarious characters and hallucinatory situations… Welcome to another voyage into the visceral sublime with Jim Woodring, whose uniquely mind-expanding narratives draw equally on Buster Keaton, Max Ernst, and an cross-section of our planet’s DNA code apparently extracted in a secret hi-tech laboratory by the mad scientists who control our fates.