Jason returns with more tales of love and loss among the dog- and cat-headed. 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 Wouldnt Virginia Woolf, a mash-up of The Brain That Wouldnt Die and Whos 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. 200 pages of full-color comics

by Jason; [colored by Hubert; translated by Kim Thompson]

Fantagraphics ; Turnaround [distributor

Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books

United States, United States of America

Seattle, Wash., London, 2012

Illustrated, PS, 2012

Six New Stories Of Love, Crime, Alcohol, And Severed Heads--p. [4] Of Cover. The Smiling Horse -- A Cat From Heaven -- The Brain That Wouldn't Virginia Woolf -- Tom Waits On The Moon -- So Long, Mary Anne -- Athos In America. By Jason ; [colored By Hubert].

196 p. : 23 cm
"Six new stories of love, crime, alcohol, and severed heads"--P. [4] of cover

2023-06-28