Athos in America by Jason
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Format: Hardcover Pages: 196 Year: 2012 Price: $24.99 |
Another all-original collection of full-color graphic novellas in the format of Low Moon, Athos in America takes its title from the lead story, a prequel of sorts to the graphic novel The Last Musketeer, in which the seemingly ageless swashbuckler turns up in a bar in 1920 New York and relates the tale of how he went to Hollywood to play himself in a film version of The Three Musketeers. Another tie-in with a previous Jason story occurs in "The Smiling Horse," in which the characters from the story "&" in Low Moon attempt to kidnap a woman. Also in this volume: "The Brain That Wouldn't Virginia Woolf," a mashup of The Brain That Wouldn't Die and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, told in reverse chronological order; the Bukowski pastiche "A Cat From Heaven" in which Jason works on his comic, has a reading in a comic book store, gets drunk and makes a fool of himself; the dialogue-free (all the text occurs in thought balloons) "Tom Waits on the Moon," in which we follow four people (one of them a scientist working on a teleportation machine) until something goes wrong; and "So Long Mary Ann," a prison-escape love-triangle story. Download and read a PDF excerpt with 4 pages from each of 5 stories (2.3 MB). Praise for Jason: "When I read Jason for the first time, I was just as excited and devastated as the first time I read the poems of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Jason's work is poetry." - Sherman Alexie "One of the medium's finest storytellers." - Publishers Weekly "Although Jason's art is attractive... it's his grasp of sociopathy that stays with you. Jason is a master of frisson." -Boston Sunday Globe "The graphic novel's cinematic qualities have rarely been so well wielded as they are by the artist known only as Jason." - Bookslut
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