Quacky

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Jim Woodring pays homage to the classic Big Little Book format to put his silent signature character through his most transformative adventure ever. Jim Woodring has been drawing the otherworldly, allegorical adventures of his cartoon Everycreature, Frank, for three and a half decades. 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 ha