Athos in America [Hardcover]

Another all-original collection of full-color graphic novellas in the format ofWhats amazing is how much [Jason] can squeeze from so little. Though their emotional register usually falls somewhere between disappointment and death, the stories make an eclectic bunch.... Sure, Jasons following his muse down the wormiest of rabbit holes these days, but you wouldnt want him any less weird.If you have not read any of Jason, I can not think of a better way to start than withBesides a particularly gleeful dark humour, this collection of short stories by Norweigan artist Jason is tied together by a certain obsession with Hollywood genres . . . Jason infuses them with both a slightly tweaked pathos and a taste for melancholy macabre. ...[F]antastic stuff for sad bastards and the people who love them.Has Jason become more embittered and misanthropic as hes aged [?]. . .Visually exciting, at times hilarious and at times devastating,One of the mediums finest storytellers.Any new work from Norwegian cartoonist Jason is worthy of a comics fans full attention, but the new, all?-original short ?story collectionAlthough Jasons art is attractive... its his grasp of sociopathy that stayswith you. Jason is a master of frisson....Jason is quite effective in modulating emotion from story to story, going from gags to violence to tragedy . . . Jason is in total control of all aspects of his storytelling, and, even after a decade straight of ambitious publishing, it seems as if hes just getting warmed up.The graphic novels cinematic qualities have rarely been so well wielded asthey are by the artist known only as Jason.When I read Jason for the first time, I was just as excited and devastatedas the first time I read the poems of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.Jasons work is poetry.Jason returns with more tales of love and lossamong the dog- and cat-headed.