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Jason

Title	Creator	Publisher	Price
Isle of 100,000 Graves	Fabien Vehlman, Jason	Fantagraphics	$12.75 ($14.99 list)
Read more and comment...	A new work by Norway's greatest comics creator is always a cause for celebration. Isle of 100,000 Graves marks a departure of sorts for Jason in that it marks his first original collaboration with a writer. Fabien Vehlman has crafted a "tortuously funny yarn" that Jason has made his own with his highly addictive comics stylings. Full color by Jason's longtime colorist, Hubert. Anyone worried that this might not be the Jason they've come to know and love can check out this six page PDF excerpt.
What I Did	Jason	Fantagraphics	$22.22 ($24.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Now's your chance to get – or give – the two works upon which rests Jason's US reputation – "Hey, Wait!" and Ssshhhh – along with the long out of print and up-until-now-mega-pricey, The Iron Wagon. All three works in an attractive hardcover omnibus for significantly less than the retail cost of the original softcovers. If there is still anyone reading this who has yet to discover the pleasures of Jason, this is the perfect place to start.
Werewolves of Montpellier	Jason	Fantagraphics	$11.75 ($12.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This one is an all-new graphic novella by the undisputed master of the form. Really, that's all you need to know, but we'll throw this 6-page PDF preview your way, on the off chance someone still needs convincing.
Almost Silent	Jason	Fantagraphics	$19.99 ($24.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Here is a perfect embodiment of the well worn phrase, "All things come to he (or she, of course) who waits." This chunky 302 page hardcover omnibus collects four – count 'em! – previously issued and out of print Jason softcovers, and sells for just a hair over half the combined price of the softcovers! So, those who didn't manage to get these the first time around, are hereby rewarded for their procrastination (or, in the case of those who are arriving late to the party, it's a variation on "the last will be first.") The four volumes collected are: Tell Me Something, You Can't Get There From Here, The Living and the Dead, and – the Copacetic Favorite – Meow, Baby! All are in glorious black & white, with the exception of You Can't Get There, which has an added color (an olive-tinged goldenrod). We are especially happy that Almost Silent enables us to be able to once again offer Meow, Baby! This is the work in which Jason really struts his stuff by plugging his patented comics language into a veritable panopticon of forms, from the classic three-panel gag-strip, through an assortment of one-pagers, two-pagers and four-pagers, all the way through to a TinTin-esque novella. Meow, Baby! offers the perfect opportunity to really study Jason's working method, and have a great time doing it, as this is some of his best (and funniest!) work. Tell Me Something is a "silent-film" treatment of Jason's favorite theme, sex and death, this time around seasoned with crime and marriage. You Can't Get There From Here is Jason's morbidly funny twist on the Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein relationship. And, finally, The Living and the Dead is, yes, you guessed it, Jason's zombie book. And there you have it. Wotta Deal!
Sshhhh!	Jason	Fantagraphics	$15.00 ($16.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Jason's second US graphic album, the one in which he proudly proclaimed his independence from text and amply demonstrated his command of a purely pictoral comics language. Another dour Scandinavian masterwork.
Hey, Wait...	Jason	Fantagraphics	$11.75 ($12.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The first -- and some would still say the best -- of Jason's works to be published in the US, this haunting work is the definitive embodiment of Jason's "less is more" approach to the language of comics. Not to be missed.
Low Moon	Jason	Fantagraphics	$22.22 ($24.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Here it is, the first Jason omnibus. Five – count em'! – graphic novellas in one hardcover volume. All new, none before published in the United States (although the work whose title supplies that of the collection, "Low Moon," was serialized in the New York Times). This works out to less than half the price per work compared to the softcover editions we're all so familiar with (at the copacetic price, they're a mere four dollars and change each). The lead off tale, "Emily Says Hello," is Jason at his darkest. You won't wallow in despair for long, however, as it is followed by "Low Moon" which is a quirky – and funny – take on the classic western, as only Jason could do. Then we have the pivotal, center story, the aptly, if oddly, named, "&." A period piece set during what appears to be the silent film era, this is a piece of gloomy slapstick, an apparent contradiction in terms that only Jason could pull off, and the source of the cover image. Next up is "Proto Film Noir," which we are not going to say anything about, just to keep you guessing at what a story bearing such a title could possibly be about (here's a tip: don't bother, you'll never guess). Finally, the book closes with "You Are Here," which may very well be the definitive Jason story, and has to be one of the most pithy stories ever penned on the price exacted by the failure of forgiveness. Did we mention that all stories are full color? While everyone doubtless has their own personal favorite Jason book, we feel comfortable stating that from an objective standpoint, this one is clearly the best yet. So, what are you waiting for?
You Can't Get There From Here	Jason	Fantagraphics	$11.00 ($12.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The latest from America's favorite Norwegian is another two-color job. It is a single tale broken into three parts, with two pantomime chapters bracketing a middle "talkie." As for the story: it's pretty much a Jasonesque take on Bride of Frankenstein; but one involving a weirdly bipolar sructure in which all the characters are mirored by other characters, and vice versa; sort of. I guess you'll have to read it to understand....
Meow, Baby!	Jason	Fantagraphics	$14.40 ($16.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	This time around Jason regales us with a 144-page collection of pithy shorts of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the healthy dose of standard, newspaper-style, three-panel gag-strips that closes out the volume, to the TinTin-esque, 20-page graphic short, "The Mummy's Secret," which immediately precedes them. The bulk of the book is made of of short -- one to seven pages in length, with most falling in the middle range -- gag pieces that are all variations on a small set of themes. Some are as minimal as a set-up followed immediately by a denouement, while others play with the formula a little. The one thing that all the pieces in this book have in common is that they all work and they're all quite humorous... in the dark, depressing sort of way that is Jason's trademark.
The Left Bank Gang	Jason		$11.00 ($12.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This time out, Highly acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist, Jason, mixes his tried and true graphic sensibility in with a little creative reimagining of literary history. Set in the "Latin Quarter of Paris sometime during the 1920s," The Left Bank Gang follows the lives of Ernest Hemingway, F Scott FItzgerald, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein in a reality in which... all were cartoonists rather than writers! In the grand tradition of cartoonists who follow their muse rather than a paycheck, they are all in desperate straights for cash, and this leads to the primary plot line, at which the title intimates. This 48-page full color graphic novella is rendered in Jason's trademarked clean, understated and highly engaging style which is full of clever narrative twists. Enjoyable, as always.
The Last Musketeer	Jason	Fantagraphics	$11.00 ($12.95 list)
Read more and comment...	It's the new Jason book. It's the standard French-flapped format, full color, 48 softcover . What more do you need to know? Well, how about the fact that this time out Jason takes the classic swashbuckling heroic adventure story and tosses it into the blender with an old school science fiction yarn involving invaders from Mars, pushes frappé and pours out another smooth comics work that goes down easy. Here's what Fanta sez: "Perhaps Jason's loopiest premise: the by-now centuries old musketeer Athos has been reduced to a suavely dressed but useless near-panhandler. All this changes when Martians attack Earth, and suddenly a swashbuckling hero is needed. "
Pocket Full of Rain	Jason	Fantagraphics	$16.95 ($19.99 list)
Read more and comment...	A lot of you may have wondered, as we did, when Hey, Wait! was first released in the US, "Hey, wait a minute -- who is this guy Jason, and how did he appear, seemingly out of nowhere, with this fully developed style?" Well, Pocket Full of Rain at long last provides US readers with the answer. Here are the works that Jason produced leading up to his US debut, but that had never before been published here until now. Pocket Full of Rain contains over 120 pages of comics, along with a 16-page color section of covers and illustrations -- almost all of which was originally published in his native Norway during the 1990s. This is the work that show us Jason's development as an artist. Jason fans will find this an engaging and possibly even fascinating collection, and students of comics will find this a volume worthy of study, so if you area among the latter, make sure to take a look.
The Living and the Dead	Jason	Fantagraphics	$8.95 ($9.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The prince of pantomime comics is back with this 48 page graphic novella that visually chronicles a tall tale of the first blush of young love and the last days of flesh eating zombies. What else can we say? This guy is a master.
I Killed Adolf Hitler	Jason	Fantagraphics	$11.00 ($12.95 list)
Read more and comment...	What is it about Jason, you may ask, that has his readers coming back for every new book, year after year. Well, for one thing, it's consistency: Jason is a conscientious craftsman who delivers the goods; his work is consistently well done in all particulars, as well as being consistently entertaining. And for another, it's the mordant -- and, to be honest, morbid -- wit that informs the extremely dry sense of humor that permeates all his work: Jason's way of seeing seems peculiarly well suited to looking at the world of today. I Killed Adolf Hitler is certainly no exception. It is a time travel tale which might appear at first glance to have disregarded all the normative parameters of the genre -- altering of history, paradox, etc. -- but which, upon consideration, seems to leave enough wiggle room to allow readers to provide their own interpretation of what exactly is going on in that department. As for the rest, it's sex and death, doomed romance and, maybe, yes - a second chance! As an added bonus, this 48 page, full color, ligne claire album may, perhaps, be profitably viewed as a commentary on Hergé's legacy.

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