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Beijing 100028 Preston White 42 McDougall Street Tel (86) 10 5130 1051 Milton, Queensland 4064 Fax (86) 10 5130 1052 Tel (61) 7 3859 9755 Mobile (86) 13 6830 18054 Fax (61) 7 3859 9715 email: [email protected] Printed in Canada email: [email protected] MONTHMAY I HAVE A BEER NEXT TO ON THE CAMINO SOME BRiTS… SO, ARE by Jason YOU ALSO FROM ST. WALKiNG THE YES. JEAN? YES. ON THE CAMiNO? CAMINO JASON’S FIRST LONG-FORM WORK SINCE 2013’S LOST CAT by JASON The Camino de Santiago is a 500 mile, historic pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. It is walked by thousands every year, both Christians and non-believers. To mark his 50th birthday, the brilliant Norwegian cartoonist Jason decided that walking the length of the Camino was what he needed to do. On the Camino is Jason’s memoir of that trek — 32 days and 500 WELL, I TRiED. miles from St. Jean Pied de Port to Finisterre, observing with the eye of an artist, chronicling both the good (people, conversations) and the bad (blisters, bedbugs). Full of quiet incidents, odd encounters, small triumphs, and the occasional setback, On the Camino is the latest graphic novel by a master cartoonist. JASON lives in Montpellier, France. “One gets the sense that Jason, like poets writing sestinas, is testing his powers, letting the fierce constraints of the form reveal new possibilities, and it’s a wonderful thing to observe.” iN LOS ARCOS, I CHOOSE A HOSTEL $24.99 Hardcover — The Guardian AND THEN TAKE A WALK… Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary “Jason’s work is poetry. Beautiful and frightening. Redemptive and hopeless. He is the Kafka and Keats HELLO! 192 pages, black and white, 5 ½” x 8” Hi THERE. of the comic world.” — Sherman Alexie HOW’S iT Territory: E • CQ: 32 GOiNG? ISBN 978-1-68396-021-8 “Any new work from Norwegian cartoonist Jason is worthy of a comics fan’s full attention.” — The AV Club would YOU like • Review attention SOME “One of the medium’s finest storytellers.” — Publishers Weekly OCTOPUS SURE. • Author events PAELLA? WHY NOT? • Digital ARC For more books by Jason, see the following page. • Age range: 15+ iNiTiALLY, I WAS WiTH I GUESS THAT’S YES, THE HOW PEOPLE YOU OTHER KOREANS, ALL MEN. WHAT THE DiD YOU MEET ON BUT THEY WALKED TOO CAMiNO iS ALL MEET? T H E R O A D. FAST AND WOULDN’T WAiT ABOUT. FOR ME. THEN I MET VESNA, AND SHE SAiD, “COME WiTH ME!” 1 MONTHMAY COMING THIS SEASON! NEW EDITIONS OF TWO JASON CLASSICS! I KILLED ADOLF HITLER This 2008 Eisner and Harvey Award-winning classic, unavailable since 2014, is back in print in a newly designed edition! In this full-color graphic novel, Jason posits a strange, violent world in which contract killers can be hired to rub out pests — be they dysfunctional relatives, abusive co-workers, loud neighbors, or just annoyances in general — and as you might imagine, their services are in heavy demand. One such killer is given the unique job of traveling back in time to kill Adolf Hitler in 1939... but things go spectacularly wrong. LOST CAT Unavailable since 2014, Fantagraphics is proud to re-present Jason’s first long-form graphic novel (after years of critically acclaimed and best-selling graphic novellas) in a newly designed edition. A detective is walking down the street. It is raining. He sees a “Lost Cat” poster. A moment later he sees the cat from the photo and calls the number. $16.99 Hardcover A woman answers. They talk and hit it off. When she disappears soon thereafter, the $19.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary expected, ensuing “mystery” takes decidedly unexpected and unconventional turns. Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary 48 pages, full color, 7” x 10” Lost Cat is both a playful take on the classic detective story, and a story about how 160 pages, black and white, 5 ½” x 8” Territory: E • CQ: 48 difficult it is to find a kindred spirit, someone you feel a real connection to — and what Territory: E • CQ: 38 ISBN 978-1-68396-008-9 you do if you lose that person. ISBN 978-1-68396-009-6 ALSO AVAILABLE BY JASON Since 2001, Norwegian-born Jason has been entertaining American readers with “The graphic novel’s cinematic qualities have rarely been so well wielded as they are by the artist known only as Jason.” —- Bookslut his beautifully sparse style, dry wit, and often-silent stories. The 2002 Harvey Award winner for “Best New Talent” has gone on to win multiple Eisner and “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 Ignatz Awards and become one of the medium’s most beloved creators. Whitman.”— Sherman Alexie Hey, Wait... Sshhhh! Why Are You Doing This? The Left Bank Gang Athos in America If You Steal $12.95 Paperback, $16.99 Paperback, $12.95 Paperback, $12.95 Paperback, $24.99 Hardcover, $29.99 Hardcover 2ISBN 978-1-56097-463-5 ISBN 978-1-56097-497-0 ISBN 978-1-56097-655-4 ISBN 978-1-56097-742-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-478-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-854-0 MONTHMAY SONGY OF PARADISE by Gary Panter THE FOUNDER OF PUNK ART REINVENTS MILTON Fantagraphics is proud to present a major, all-new book by Gary Panter. Songy of Paradise is an inspired interpretation of John Milton’s retelling of the story of Jesus being tempted by Satan after being baptized by John the Baptist and fasting for forty days and nights in the Judaean Desert. Panter’s version doesn’t rely on Milton’s words, but faithfully follows the structure of Milton’s Paradise Regained, with one notable exception: Jesus has been replaced by a hillbilly, Songy, who is on a vision quest before being tempted by a chimeric Satan figure. Gary Panter is one of America’s preeminent artists, designers, and cartoonists, whose work defined the L.A. punk scene and the vibrant work of the television show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Songy of Paradise presents Panter’s singular vision in an ornate, hardcover format that does justice to Panter’s densely packed pages, with a stunning two-color stamping on cloth covers. It $34.99 Hardcover will be an art object, a brilliant literary experiment, and the most eye-popping Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary graphic novel of 2017.