Commissioned by French press The Hoochie Coochie, Francis Bear is the much anticipated latest comic from cult Melbourne comic artist Gregory Mackay. Francis Bear is an intriguing study of an inventive drunken bear's pathway to isolation.

The Trials of Francis Bear is Gregory Mackay's second book-length expedition into the world of the itinerant, inebriate and inventive Francis Bear. Distracted by folly, and motivated to fabricate, Francis challenges the world around him - indelibly. He seeks pleasure from the bottle, finds opportunity in mistakes and never really gets anything right. That is until he goes to war...