(W/A) Jason

A deluxe, hardcover collection of four jason classics. Almost Silent packages four original Jason graphic novels — three of them out of print since mid-2008 — into one compact, hardcover omnibus collection. As the title indicates, this volume favors Jason's pantomime works.

"You Can't Get There From Here," the longest story of the book (and the only one to be printed in color - well, a color), tells the tale of a love triangle involving Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster, and The Monster's Bride: Jason cleverly alternates between totally silent sequences involving the three characters and scenes in which Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant discusses the day's events with a fellow hunchbacked assistant to another mad scientist. (You didn't know they had a union?)

"Tell Me Something" is a brisk (271 panels), near-totally-silent (just a few intertitles) graphic novelette about love lost and found again, told with a tricky mixture of forward- and back-flashing narrative. "Meow, Baby" is a collection of Jason's short stories and gags, and finally, "The Living and the Dead" is a hilariously deadpan (and gory) take on the traditional Romero-style zombie thriller.

All of these yarns star Jason's patented cast of tight-lipped (or -beaked) bird-, dog-, cat- and wolf-people, and show off his compassion and wry wit. Almost Silent is a perfect starting point for a new reader wanting to know what the fuss is all about, and a handsome, handy, inexpensive collection for the committed Jason fan.

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A professional assassin is given the unique job of traveling back in time - to kill Adolf Hitler in 1939, but things go wrong! I Killed Adolf Hitler is rendered in Jason's crisp deadpan neo-clear-line style, augmented by lovely, understated coloring.

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Five years ago, little Gwenny's father found, inside a bottle, a map with instructions on how to reach the mysterious Isle of 100,000 Graves and its legendary treasures - and then he vanished. Now Gwenny, having stumbled across another bottle-shipped map, enlists the dubious help of a shipful of pirates and sets out to find the island and her long-lost dad. Little does she realise that the Isle comes by its ominous name honestly, as the location of a secret school for executioners and torturers!

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Set in the present time, The Last Musketeer stars the by-now centuries old musketeer Athos, who has been reduced to a suavely dressed but useless near-panhandler trading on his now almost extinct fame. All this changes when one day the Martians attack Earth. Suddenly there is a need for swashes to be buckled, and Athos leaps back into the fray with a vengeance. The Last Musketeer is a vintage sci-fi adventure with a unique twist from an internationally acclaimed cartoonist.

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Struggling cartoonists Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce spend their days doggedly inking in panel after tiny panel on big, white artboards, and their evenings and nights hanging out in cafes where they argue about life, love, comics, and how to satisfy a woman. But life is tough in 1920s Paris...and then, one day, Hemingway proposes an idea...
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The acclaimed graphic novelist Jason returns with his most eagerly awaited book yet, thanks to the inclusion of the title story, the world's first (and likely last) chess western. Originally serialized in 2008 to a huge (and hugely delighted) audience in the New York Times Sunday Magazine "Funny Pages" section, "Low Moon" made Jason's 2008 appearance at the MoCCA Arts Festival in Manhattan the talk of the prestigious show, catapulting the Norwegian star to an even new level of mass appeal.
This 216-page hardcover book features five yarns - all brand new with the exception of the aforementioned "Low Moon," which is collected into book form for the first time.
The new stories lead off with "Emily Says Hello," a typically deadpan Jason tale of murder, revenge and sexual domination. Then, the wordless "&" tells two tales at once: one about a skinny guy trying to steal enough money to save his ill mother, and the other about a fat guy murderously trying to woo his true love. The reason we follow these two parallel stories becomes obvious only on the very last page, in Jason's inimitable genre-mashing style.
"Early Film Noir" can best be described as The Postman Always Rings Twice meets Groundhog Day. But starring cavemen. And finally, "You Are Here" features alien kidnappings, space travel, and the pain and confusion of family ties, culminating in an enigmatic finale that rivals Jason's greatest twists.
Funny, poignant, and wry, Low Moon shows one of the world's most acclaimed graphic novelists at the absolute peak of his powers.

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This multi-faceted anthology prints selections from Jason's early 1990s work, including his calling card, the novella-length thriller Pocket Full of Rain. This collection showcases three distinct styles: Jason's earliest realistic drawing style, an intermediate bighead cartoony style that still features humans and the funny-animal style he's now best known for. Also included are a colour section featuring Jason's painted covers for his original Norwegian magazine Mjau Mjau, strips and illustrations, plus God Cheating at Trivial Pursuit.

A silent zombie comedy with a sweet love story at its heart.
After a couple of downright chatty full-color books ("Why Are You Doing This?" and "The Left Bank Gang") the Norwegian cartoonist Jason returns, for his ninth Fantagraphics graphic novel, to his two-tone mute roots with "The Living and the Dead," a George A. Romero-esque zombie comedy that he intends to be the middle installment of his "horror trilogy" begun with the Frankenstein monster love triangle of "You Can't Get There From Here." (The third one is still under wraps.) (And no, "under wraps" isn't some sort of clue as to the nature of the monster.)
Jason's elegant deadpan style somehow manages to make the gruesome gore and splatter effects almost... charming--and yes, it is a sweet love story at heart. If you read only one book in which a zombie devours a baby this year (even Romero never quite summoned up the nerve for that), read this one!

Jason returns with a full-length, full-colour graphic novella - his first since his 2008 Eisner-Award winning The Last Musketeer. Sven, a semi-aimless Scandinavian artist, who has ended up in Montpellier, enjoys noctural raids in other people's homes - disguised as a werewolf. But he hasn't taken into account the existence of real Montpellier-based werewolves who do not take kindly to this new pretender. So while Sven wiles away his time, little does he realise that a genuine threat to his life and, for that matter, his humanity.