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This collection highlights the most iconic villains from the original Star Wars trilogy, showcasing their roles and impact within the Legends continuity. Readers can expect a deep dive into the motivations, backstories, and conflicts of these formidable characters, enriching the overall Star Wars narrative. The omnibus format provides a comprehensive look at their stories, making it a must-read for fans eager to explore the darker side of the galaxy far, far away.

This unique 400-page comic offers a captivating, wordless journey crafted by a contemporary master of the medium. The absence of text invites readers to immerse themselves fully in the intricate visuals and narrative, creating a mesmerizing experience that challenges traditional storytelling. The artwork itself serves as a powerful vehicle for emotion and imagination, making it a standout piece in the realm of graphic novels.

This collects Jim Woodring's choice and previously unpublished images and gag cartoons, created between 2009 and 2019 for his private amusement. This book features Woodring's familiar cast of characters from such canonical graphic novels as Poochytown, but with a twist! Woodring has enlisted the mysterious Walter Foxglove, The Smartest Artist (TM), to undertake the huge task of restoring to these images the notes, comments, and coarse jokes that accompanied their creation.

When Pupshaw and Pushpaw depart for the orgiastic delights of Poochytown, the forlorn Frank is thrown by a twist of fate into an unlikely friendship, propelling him down a long road of escapades and trials that ends in one of the most shocking acts ever depicted in the Frank canon.

Trpí snad na světě někdo víc než Prasan? Napůl člověk, napůl vepř, protlouká se životem a schytává rány ze všech stran. Osud tomu ovšem chce, aby se vydal na cestu za osvícením. Pod nohy mu přitom hází klacky zlomyslný škodolibec Rozmar a zpovzdálí tahají za nitky prapodivné vědmy Betty a Veronika. Podaří se Prasanovi všechny nástrahy překonat? Podá mu pomocnou ruku kolemjdoucí dvounožec Frank? A co je to pověstné mrakobití? Vítejte v Unifaktoru, fantastickém vesmíru, kde si logika vzala dovolenou a optické klamy budou s vaším zrakem tancovat rejdováka. Mrakobití je halucinačním komiksovým románem, v němž se mísí groteska, mystika, černý humor, surreálno, alegorie i védántská filozofie – to vše zpracováno jedinečným kresebným stylem připomínajícím dřevoryt. Jim Woodring považuje za nejdokonalejší kresebnou techniku redispero a inkoust. Věnuje se meditaci a védántské filozofii. Bydlí s rodinou ve washingtonském Seattlu. Za Mrakobití získal v roce 2010 cenu Stranger’s Genius Award.

Frank is, as everyone knows, Jim Woodring s best-selling cartoon character. Jim, on the other hand, is Woodring s cartoon alter ego, the fictional doppelganger who has for 30 years inhabited Woodring s alternate universe where shifting, phantasmagoric landscapes, abrupt, hallucinatory visual revelations, and unexpected eruptions of uninhibited verbal self-flagellation are commonplace. Jim is a mind-bending collection of all of Woodring s best non-Frank creative work comics stories, prose stories, drawings, and paintings, with a new introduction and afterword by the man himself. Abounding in metaphors if you choose to see them and naked self-disclosure if you don t, this volume of comics, prose, and images collected here for the first time is a bounty of Woodring s inspired artistry."

For the past 20 years or so, Jim Woodring’s beloved trilobular chuckbuster Frank has enjoyed one mindbending catastrophe after another in the treacherous embrace of The Unifactor, the land into which he was born and from which escape seemed neither desirable nor likely. And then, abruptly, in 2011’s acclaimed Congress of the Animals(the second Woodring original graphic novel, following Weathercraft) Frank did leave the Unifactor for uncharted lands beyond―where, after a string of trials, he acquired a soulmate named Fran. This development raised far more questions than it answered. Would Frank become placid and domesticated? Would he be jilted? Would he turn out to be a dreadful cad? Would he become a downtrodden and exhausted paterfamilias staring vacantly into the dimming fire of life as obnoxious grandchildren pulled his peglike ears and stole his porridge? The answers to these fruitless speculations and many more are delivered in a devastatingly unpredictable fashion in Fran, which is in effect part two of Congress of the Animals. Fans of Frank, connoisseurs of bizarre romance, and spelunkers in the radiant depths of graphic metaphysical psychodrama will want to add this singular cartoon adventure story to their lifetime reading list.

En 2010 varias de las más prestigiosas publicaciones norteamericanas (entre ellas, Time, Publishers Weekly y Los Angeles Times) incluyeron estas Filigranas del Clima (Weathercraft) en su lista de los diez mejores libros del año. La primera novela gráfica de Jim Woodring relata el viaje iniciático de Manhog, antagonista de Frank, a través de innumerables e hilarantes desventuras, hacia la iluminación. Por supuesto, la nómina de personajes incluye al indolente antihéroe Frank y a sus adorables mascotas, Pupshaw y Pushpaw, junto a otros habituales del universo de Woodring, que entrega aquí una introducción inmejorable a su obra y su libro más completo hasta la fecha.

In honor of Frank’s 20th anniversary Fantagraphics is re-releasing the massive, long out of print Frank Book omnibus, which collected all the Frank material up to the mid-aughts, including several jaw-droppingly beautiful full-color stories, literally dozens of lushly-delineated black-and-white stories, and a treasure trove of covers and illustrations. The Frank Book also features an introduction by one of Frank’s biggest fans (himself a Frank, or almost): Francis Ford Coppola.

Collects sixteen short Star Wars tales featuring droids, Mara Jade, Jedis, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, Han Solo, and Jabba the Hutt. Stories are set in the Star Wars universe