Many of the stories are in b&w, but when color appears, the palette is a cheerful kaleidoscope. Woodring uses cartoon grammar brilliantly: within a single panel, he captures the round, loose style of classic animated cartoons and conjures the best of early Disney, while simultaneously acting as master engraver, with a quality of line work and elegant shading reminiscent of Gustave Doré. This book's hero, Frank, is a catlike anthropomorph who lives in a surreal, exotic world. Woodring's hallmarks are inventive, often bizarre creatures who inhabit otherworldly landscapes and dreamlike narratives. Woodring, a modern master of hallucinatory cartoon fables, specializes in comics that look normal but aren't.
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