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''Frank'' began as a doodle. A doodle of a [[Funny Animal]] who wasn't rabbit-like or duck-like, but just ... funny looking. It was hard to tell what to do with it, but there was something about it that made it keep coming back in his mind. Maybe it was a snub given to the doodle by a coworker. First, the creature - dubbed Frank - was given human eyes and drawn into a cover of Jim's mildly successful comic autojournal ''Jim''. Later, around this creature Woodring wrote a short comic. The human eyes were dropped, too! Woodring at first wrote the dialogue purposefully [[Purple Prose|so flowery as to be incomprehensible]]. That didn't work right, so he wrote it [[Cluster F-Bomb|with so much profanity that it made his eyes bleed to read it]]. That didn't work, either. In a lucky flash of brilliance, Woodring decided he'd just erase the speech bubbles entirely and tell the story in pantomime. And it became the most popular comic he ever drew.