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09/18/11(Sun)17:25 No.2088035>>2088027 1920s
Paris: is the birthplace of the graphic novel! Set in 1920s Paris, this
very original and hilarious graphic novel is a deliciously inventive
reimagining of four literary giants (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest
Hemingway, Ezra Pound and James Joyce) as not only typical Jason
anthropomorphics, but graphic novelists! In Jason's warped world,
cartooning is the dominant form of fiction, and not only do these four
literary figures work in the comics medium but they get together to
discuss pen vs. brush, chat about the latest graphic novels from
Dostoevsky ("I can't tell any of his characters apart!") to Faulkner
("Hasn't he heard of white space? His panels are too crowded!") and
bemoan their erratic careers. A hilarious sequence where Hemingway is
lectured by an overbearing Gertrude Stein, guest appearances by Zelda
Fitzgerald and Jean-Paul Sartre plus a few remarkable twists and turns
along the way make for one of the funniest and most playful graphic
novels of the year. |