Woodring produced a new "Frank" book in 2005 ("The Lute String") and in 2010 his first graphic novel-length "Frank" book, "Weathercraft", which found itself on a number of "Best of 2010" lists. This was followed up with another, "Congress of the Animals", in May 2011. Woodring says that, while he had been away from comics, he built up a backlog of new stories, and he intends to complete a total of four 100-page books like "Weathercraft" and "Congress of the Animals", and then return to the types of stories he had done in "Jim".