The mutant offspring of Felix the Cat and German Surrealist Max Ernst, Frank is a weird, wordless cartoon strip that details the adventures of the terribly curious title character, who is neither cat nor mouse but something else entirely. In books and comics Frank wanders through a cartoon landscape of dreamlike beauty and nightmarish horror, encountering such strange creatures as the bestial Manhog, the evil Whim and the frankly inexplicable Jerry Chickens. We spoke to Frank's creator, Jim Woodring.

*What is Frank?

Frank was born of the desire to create a cartoon character; not a cartoon mouse, or cat, or dog, or human, but a pure cartoon character.