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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 mash-up 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.

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One of the medium s finest storytellers. The graphic novel 's cinematic qualities have rarely been so well wielded as they are by the artist known only as Jason. One of the medium 's finest storytellers. Although Jason 's art is attractive... it 's his grasp of sociopathy that stays with you. Jason is a master of frisson. One of the medium s finest storytellers. ...[T]his new volume presents some of Jason's most experimental comics yet.... One thing that hasn't changed is the ways in which Jason conjures up a kind of understated humor from his somber protagonists. . . [Athos in America] shows that one of the more unique cartoonists today is continuing to evolve. --Phil Guie Athos in America is a tour de force that showcases Jason s immense talents as both an artist and a storyteller. These haunting stories will stick with you long after you ve turned the last page. Rating: 10 out of 10 --Edward Kaye Has Jason become more embittered and misanthropic as he s aged [?]. . . Athos in America is up to his usual standards, full of stories that build slowly, with plenty of subtle detail in its stone-faced panels.... The execution, as it always is with both Jason and Fantagraphics, is stellar. --Hillary Brown Any new work from Norwegian cartoonist Jason is worthy of a comics fan s full attention, but the new, all-original short story collection Athos in America is one of the best books of Jason s career, which automatically makes it one of the best books of this year. --Noel Murray If you have not read any of Jason, I can not think of a better way to start than with Athos. Most likely not be the last work of this author that passes through your hands. --Hector G. Olarte Visually exciting, at times hilarious and at times devastating, Athos in America will only add to Jason s well-deserved reputation as a star of the graphic novel world. It's a beautiful book. This is definitely Jason's best book yet. . . --Nick Gazin [Athos in America] is chock-full of examples of Jason s inspired appropriation of classic trash pop culture, and his repurposing of it in formally experimental (or is playful a better word?) explorations of the human experiment... the specific magic he works is so difficult to describe in words, and so easy to communicate by simply pointing to a random volume of his work and saying, 'Hey, check this out.' --J. Caleb Mozzocco The 'autobio' strip in [Athos in America] is my hands-down full-stop favorite thing Jason has ever done. . . The rest of the book is totally satisfying, but I can t pretend I didn t read all of it with my brain obsessing over all the little beats in 'A Cat From Heaven.' --Tucker Stone Fans will find much here to laugh at, applaud and be surprised by. If you've yet to sample the delights of Jason, there isn't a better place to start than here. . . All together a wonderful compendium of Jasonia. --Peter Wild All six of the stories in this latest volume from Europe's eminent purveyor of deadpan, blank-eyed, funny animals are quite good ... [Jason's] pushing himself to do new things and communicate through his art, and it's wonderful to watch. --Matthew J. Brady What s 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, Jason s following his muse down the wormiest of rabbit holes these days, but you wouldn t want him any less weird.--Ian Chipman The graphic novel s cinematic qualities have rarely been so well wielded as they are by the artist known only as Jason. Besides 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.--David Berry One of the medium s finest storytellers. Although Jason s art is attractive... it s his grasp of sociopathy that stays with you. Jason is a master of frisson. One of the medium's finest storytellers. What's 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, Jason's following his muse down the wormiest of rabbit holes these days, but you wouldn't want him any less weird.--Ian Chipman Although Jason's art is attractive... it's his grasp of sociopathy that stays with 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 he's just getting warmed up.--Rob Clough The graphic novel's cinematic qualities have rarely been so well wielded as they are by the artist known only as 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 Athos in America is a tour de force that showcases Jason's immense talents as both an artist and a storyteller. These haunting stories will stick with you long after you've turned the last page. Rating: 10 out of 10 --Edward Kaye

Although Jason s art is attractive... it s his grasp of sociopathy that stays with you. Jason is a master of frisson.

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

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Jason hails from Oslo, Norway, but currently resides in Montpellier, France. He's won multiple Eisners, a Harvey, and an Inkpot award.

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