To call Jim Woodring a genius is too limited. To call him a ‘visionary’ implies that he’s seeing something beyond, or is somehow fanciful in his work. No. You can only call Jim Woodring ‘Jim Woodring.’ I have never encountered an artist / writer so uniquely himself as Woodring, and the ‘Frank’ strips – many of which are lovingly collected in ‘The Portable Frank,’ bring that quality out front and center.