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'''''Frank''''' is a comic series by Jim Woodring.
 
''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.
 
But what about Frank himself? Frank is a young purple generic anthropomorph, he is covered with short dense fur, he is innocent but not noble, and he will one day die. He lives in a land called The Unifactor along with [[Butt Monkey|Manhog]], [[Complete Monster|Whim]], the geometrically shaped [[Those Two Guys|Jerry Chickens]], his pet [[Physical God|Pupshaw]] and her boyfriend [[Boisterous Bruiser|Pushpaw]], the radially symmetric [[Our Souls Are Different|Jivas]], and many other one-shot characters. He finds himself on fairly independent episodic adventures, from as simple as seeing an outdoors house of horrors to getting embroiled in the complex machinations of Whim.
 
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Not to be confused with [[28 Days Later|Frank]], [[Donnie Darko|Frank]], [[Pajanimals|Frank]], [[Three's Company|Frank Angelino]], [[They Live|Frank Armitage]], [[Everybody Loves Raymond|Frank Barone]], [[M*A*S*H (television)|Frank Burns]], [[The Punisher|Frank Castle]], [[Seinfeld|Frank Costanza]], [[This Man Dawson|Frank Dawson]], [[Life of Crime (film)|the other Frank Dawson]], [[Police Squad!|Frank Drebin]], [[Shameless|Frank Gallagher]], [[The Simpsons (animation)|Frank Grimes]], [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid|Frank Heffley]], [[Fallout 2|Frank Horrigan]], [[Step by Step (TV series)|Frank Lambert]], [[Need for Speed Heat|Frank Mercer]], [[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia|Frank Reynolds]], [[Camilla Dickinson|Frank Rowan]], [[Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em|Frank Spencer]], [[Dead Rising|Frank West]], [[Call of Duty: Black Ops|Frank Woods]], [[Heroes of Olympus|Frank Zhang]], [[Sgt. Rock|Sgt. Frank Rock]], [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|TV's Frank]], the 2014 film ''[[Frank (film)|Frank]]'', the girl band [[Frank (band)|Frank]], or ''[[Frank and Ernest]]''.
=== This comic book provides examples of: ===
 
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* [[An Aesop]] - Jim Woodring claims that every story has one. Some are more clear than others.
* [[Alien Geometries]] - The strict adherence to ''Euclidean'' geometries makes the Jivas and Jerry Chickens look bizarre.
* [[Beneath the Earth]] - [[Physical Hell|Where Whim Lives]].
* [[Body Horror]]: It's a [[Once an Episode]] thing.
* [[Cosmic Horror]] - Several. One [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|gets eaten]] by Pushpaw. Whim is hinted to be something like this.
** Whim {{spoiler|eats the souls of said horrors}}.
* [[Dada Comics]] - Woodring says this is his most deliberately plotted comic. This tells you more about how freewheeling his other comics are, than about how much conventional sense ''Frank'' makes.
* [[Family -Unfriendly Violence]] - From everybody. Even Frank can be shockingly cruel.
* [[Genius Loci]] - The Unifactor, maybe. Also, remember that Cosmic Horror Pushpaw ate?
* [[It Runs Onon Nonsensoleum]]
* [[Lemony Narrator]] - in one episode.
* [[Pig Man]] - [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Manhog.]]
* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]: Frank's Pa
* [[Transformation Trauma]] - Whim loves to inflict this on <s>people</s> the inhabitants of The Unifactor.
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* [[White Gloves]]: Frank has them, due to being a cartoon thingie.
* [[Wild Take]] - Having a cartoon biology, Frank does this often.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: In some of the names;
** Frank's Pa has an impostor- he's a ''Faux Pa''.
** Whenever a ''Carte Blanche'' occurs, a white cart is somewhere on the scene.
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