Monk

Monk is a surrealist character inhabiting Jim Woodring's wordless, dreamlike universe, debuting alongside recurring figures like Frank and Manhog in the independent anthology Tantalizing Stories #1. They exist within Woodring's distinctive, unsettling vision of reality.

Emerging from the fertile, surrealist imagination of Jim Woodring, Monk made their debut in Tantalizing Stories #1 in 1992, right at the heart of the independent comics renaissance that made Tundra Publishing such an exciting creative frontier. Sharing pages with the likes of Frank, Manhog, and Montgomery Wart, Monk inhabits Woodring's richly strange universe — a world unlike anything the mainstream publishers were offering at the time. With appearances across both Tantalizing Stories and Jim, this is a character for readers who treasure the weird, wonderful corners of early '90s alternative comics, where genuine artistic vision ran wild.