Anthropomorphics, Graphic Novels

Anthropomorphics, Graphic Novels

Almost Silent HC

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......

Usagi Yojimbo Vol 3 TPB

Perhaps the best samurai rabbit story ever told, Usagi Yojimbo Book 3 collects full-length stories from the original Fantagraphics series including: 'The Tower' (which introduces Usagi's traveling companion, Spot the Wonder Lizard), 'Return of the Blind Swordspig,' and the hilarious Groo tribute, 'The Tea Cup.' Plus, the little-seen team-up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 'Turtle Soup and Rabbit Stew'! A must-have for adventure lovers of all ages!

Scalawag GN

by Steve Lafler Dennis the new piano player in Bughouse is by all accounts a very funky musician and a genial chap. But before long the real Dennis reveals himself as a gambling lying cheating two-timing drunken thief and all around Scalawag! Only when he encounters his doppelganger 'Dennnis' does Dennis reach his epiphany: that the real force at the center of his life is love. Following the premise of Lafler's earlier title Bughouse the action is set in an indigo toned 'insect noir' Manhattan of the 50s where all the characters are bug-headed hipster bop musicians.

Sshhhh GN (new Printing)

By Jason SC, 7 1/2 x 10, 120 pages, BW, $16.99 ISBN 978-1-56097-497-0 Finally back in print, by popular demand! Jason's first full-length work is an intriguing suite of silent short stories starring one of his trademark bird characters that ends up chronicling a life well lived. Sshhhh! was published before Jason created the distinctive 'Jason' format of his later books, and Sshhhh! has now been redesigned to match them, with a brand new cover done just for this edition.

Mice Templar TPB Vol. 02.1 Destiny Pt 1 TPB

Karic might be the Chosen One...but what does such a title even mean for the young mouse who desires only to save his family from a monstrous fate. Under the training of exile Cassius, Karic learns what it truly is to be a Templar knight and warrior. While One-Arm Leito rallies his fellow prisoners, struggling to become a leader against impossible odds. Both mice find themselves on a collision course with destiny. FOREWORD BY GAIL SIMONE!

When We Fall GN

Petit Lapin travels through time to collect a spaceship filled with cookie crumbs of broken relationships. Never running out of tragic missions, actions, romance and violence, Lapin's space travel finds himself tumbling through human misconnections. When We Fall envelopes these autobiographical fictions in an empty swimming pool of love where unattainability is abundant.

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