Weathercraft is a 2010 graphic novel by American cartoonist Jim Woodring, featuring his best-known characters Frank, Manhog and Whim.
Club why, after 30 years of doing comics, he had now decided to produce his first graphic novel, he replied: "It sounds kind of dumb, but I just didn’t think of doing it until recently.
"[1] Weathercraft, like all of the works set in Woodring's Unifactor (the world in which Frank and associated characters appear), is executed in wordless pantomime, with no word balloons or captions of any kind.
It rewards (or requires) re-readings,[2] and "blends [Woodring's] understanding of Vedantic beliefs with stylized, Max Fleischer nightmares to explore ideas about the evolution of consciousness.
As if to hammer home this mysticism, Woodring notes that the Sanskrit symbol for the sacred syllable Aum [ॐ] is hidden on each page.
[citation needed] After merging with a psychoactive plant known as Salvia divinorum,[3] Whim proceeds to "distort and enslave Frank and his friends".