The Portable Frank

This is a small section from an incredible comic book called "The Portable Frank" by Jim Woodring.










It's like a Max Fleischer cartoon with a quirky persian style.
and it's fucking trippayayayy sheeeyt! all tropical and sheet.
There's a really strong sense of timing from one image to the next.

I stole these shots from this girls blog. It's her hand in the first one.

train station suprise

snorting wolf

I was inspired by this roald dahl book cover. I really like the idea of an incredibly scary monster carrying out a friendly act, being creepy and acting friendly at the same time is terrifying.

macadamia farm

Stills from a puppety movie I made with my brother Jon and the dog.

lunch models

dragon

I practiced construction with this wolf head from Warner Brothers then used the same principles for this cartoony dragon.

more lunch

lunch: scribbles and roughs

dream

The guy with the bowler hat is Rik Mayall. Jean Reno is chasing him,
so he jumps into the flying fox and out the window to the restaurant
in the ocean.

scribble

prancing jester

I imagine this guy dancing a bit like El Guapo from the Three Amigos.

pirates

haunted forest

cunning trap

wallace and gromitty

old man radio/ potato cucumber: treasure explorers

effort + stupid idea =

practice

warner bros. and johnk copies (below)
-good blog: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/ -

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hawking

Usually when I copy something it comes out rather different from the original. For example the smoking man with the panama hat was originally Italian, but he came out looking Australian Aboriginal. Steven Hawking is there but sort of without motor neuron disease. The happy Japanese guy is pretty much a carbon copy.

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