Fran #[nn]

Sep 2013 · Fantagraphics · 19.99 USD

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“Fran”

About this Collection

This collection brings together the complete run of Jim Woodring's wordless, surreal comic strip 'Fran,' originally serialized in 2013. The volume follows the titular character, a curious and innocent creature, through a series of dreamlike, often unsettling adventures in the artist's signature hallucinatory style. Fantagraphics' edition presents the full narrative arc of Fran's journey, showcasing Woodring's masterful visual storytelling without dialogue or captions.

In "Fran," Jim Woodring delivers a quietly unsettling glimpse into the fragile dynamics of connection, as Frank's relationship with Fran begins to fray. With her growing distance and a mysterious new presence in the neighborhood, the balance between them shifts in ways that feel both inevitable and deeply uncertain. Drawn in Woodring’s signature surreal, finely detailed style, the story unfolds with the quiet intensity of a dream just out of reach—cover by Jim Woodring.

writer, artist, inker Jim Woodring · cover Jim Woodring