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Exclusive Preview: Quacky – Jim Woodring Returns to His Signature Character Frank in the Style of the 1930s ‘Big Little Books’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 19, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Another exclusive to Broken Frontier preview today as part of our ‘Fantagraphics at 50!’ Month through August. Today it’s new work from the brilliant Jim Woodring (Frank,…

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And Now, Sir — Is THIS Your Missing Gonad? – A New Perspective on the Unsettlingly Alluring World of Jim Woodring’s Frank

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 24, 2020

Something of a curio and a sidestep in the annals of Jim Woodring’s Unifactor stories And Now, Sir — Is THIS Your Missing Gonad? takes his signature anthropomorphic Frank character…

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Linework NW Points Toward a New Direction for Small Press Festivals

  • by Tyler Chin-Tanner
  • April 16, 2014

Linework NW, the new small press comics festival, opened strongly with a successful first show in Portland, OR. The one-day show (though some offsite festivities did take place before and…

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Process #3: Discussing the Mechanics of the Comics Page

  • by Steven Walsh
  • June 12, 2013

Process is a comics workshop and discussion group that meets up on the first Wednesday of every month at London’s Gosh! Comics from 7-9 pm. The idea is to have…

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