The Museum of Love and Mystery is one of the stronger entries in the canon of Jim Woodring's Frank character. This series of twelve color images, not necessarily related in any sort of obvious narrative, present a series of tableau depicting Frank, Pupshaw, and Pushpaw exploring the Unifactor (their home environment) in an almost tourist-like way. This latter point is strongly reinforced by the museum and carnival imagery that creeps into some of these pieces, not to mention some stray suggestions of a dude ranch-type experience. If The Museum of Love and Mystery represents Frank and friends on vacation, then we (the readers) are all the luckier to be experiencing the unpredictable cartoon world of the Unifactor from our comfortable armchairs on the near side of the fantastic divide. ( )