Comic books in 'Jason Omnibus (FB)'

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2nd and later printings. 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. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 300 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $24.99.

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1st printing. By Jason. One of Europe's most exciting young cartoonists makes his American debut. This superbly evocative graphic novella by the award-winning Norwegian cartoonist Jason (his first appearance in the English language!) starts off as a melancholy childhood memoir and then, with a shocking twist midway through, becomes the summary of lives lived, wasted, and lost. (Imagine a version of Stand By Me in which not all of the kids outrace the train...) Like Art Spiegelman did with Maus, Jason utilizes anthropomorphic stylizations to reach deeper, more general truths, and to create elegantly minimalist panels whose emotional depth charge comes as an even greater shock. His sparse dialogue, dark wit, and supremely bold use of "jump-cuts" from one scene to the next (sometimes spanning a number of years) make Hey, Wait... one of the most surprising and engaging debuts of the year! Softcover, 64 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $9.95.

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1st printing. By Jason Covey. After books that have ranged from tragedy, to drama, to thriller melodrama, Jason unleashes a big collection of hilarious shorter pieces. God, the Devil, mummies, vampires, zombies, werewolves, reanimated skeletons, space invaders, Death, cavemen, Godzilla and Elvis populate these most-often wordless blackout gags, side by side with Jason's usual Little Orphan Annie-eyed, rabbit-and-bird-head protagonists. Softcover, 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

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1st printing. By Jason. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar. Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank Gang is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of these four literary figures as not only typical Jason anthropomorphics, but graphic novelists! Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $12.95.

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1st printing. Written by Fabien Vehlmann. Art by Jason. Five years ago, little Gwenny's father found, a map inside a bottle with instructions on how to reach the mysterious (and titular) 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 realize that the Isle comes by its ominous name honestly, as the location of a secret school for executioners and torturers, where apple-cheeked youngsters are taught the finer points of extracting information from prisoners... and then putting an end to their lives in a wide variety of gruesome ways. And they've reached the point in their studies where theory should ideally give way to practice, so an influx of uninvited visitors comes as a blessing to the faculty. This story is a comedy, albeit a dark one. Softcover, 7-in. x 10-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

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(W/A) Jason, et al Celebrating 10 years of Jason being published in the US, this comic-book-format one-shot is a Jason fan's dream, with lots of previously unpublished Jason strips and artwork, an interview with Jason's colorist Hubert, a checklist of all Jason's books, a FAQ Q&A with the man himself, and a visual tributes gallery by several American cartoonists to the towering, taciturn Norwegian genius including Michael Allred, Kim Deitch, and Rich Tommaso. Cover price $4.99.

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1st Edition - 1st printing. By Jason. JASON RETURNS WITH A UNIQUELY QUIRKY FULL-LENGTH DETECTIVE STORY. A detective is walking down the street. It is raining. He sees a "Lost Cat" poster. A minute later he sees the cat from the photo. He picks it up and goes back to the poster. He calls the number. A woman answers. He turns up at her place and gives her the cat. She invites him in from the rain for a cup of coffee. They talk and find out they have a lot in common: both are divorced and living alone.Some days later he invites her out for a dinner. She accepts. He shows up at the agreed time. She doesn't. He calls her home and knocks on her door. No answer. He asks the neighbors. They haven't seen her. She has disappeared. He makes some phone calls and investigates, but can't find her. He gets a new client and has to start working on a new case. In his head he continues their conversation... Lost Cat, the new graphic novel by Jason (after years of "graphic novellas" of less than 50 pages, arguably his first genuine graphic NOVEL) is both a playful take on the classic detective story, and a story about how difficult it is to find a sister spirit, someone you feel a real connection to -- and what do you do if you lose that person? Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 160 pages, full color Cover price $24.99.

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1st printing. Story and art by Jason. Jason's latest collection consists of eleven wildly off-kilter stories that mix elements of pop culture and a variety of genres, pastiches and mash-ups in a delightful melange of graphic storytelling. Featuring Frida Kahlo as a hired killer, Santo, the Mexican wrestler, Chet Baker, the JFK assassination, Rene Magritte, Nostradamus and Van Morrison's Moondance album as a horror comic, all told with Jason's beguilingly deadpan style. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 208 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.