STRANGE TOONS: VISIONS OF FRANK

As a total barking goon for the work of genius-weirdo cartoonist Jim Woodring, I was positively giddy a few years back when I heard about the DVD Visions of Frank, featuring a collection of animated shorts based on Woodring's superbly strange Frank comics.

But then the DVD finally arrived, and I ended up having pretty mixed feelings about it. It featured a lot of impressive work, and I loved the stuff that came close to capturing Woodring's own style. But there were too many cartoons that felt like the animators were just using Woodring's work as a foundation to do their own, less interesting stuff. I was glad to have seen the DVD, but not so glad to have paid full price for it.

Well, far as I can tell the DVD isn't commercially available anymore, but Youtube user PompMIKI has been kind enough to post a big pile of the cartoons online. You can start with the best of the bunch below, and click around to see the other six.



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