<![CDATA[The Left Bank Gang]]>

false <![CDATA[The Left Bank Gang]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172052443m/135037.jpg 135037 2 1920s Paris: Birthplace of the graphic novel?! F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel. Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank Gang is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of these four literary figures as not only typical Jason anthropomorphics, but... graphic novelists! Yes, in Jason's warped world, cartooning is the dominant form of fiction, and not only do these four literary giants 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. Add in a hilarious sequence where Hemingway is lectured by an overbearing Gertrude Stein ("What kind of pencil are you using? You should be using a blue pencil, that way you don't have to erase, all right? Avoid captions. Don't ever write 'A little later.' You don't need that. The reader will figure it out."), guest appearances by Zelda Fitzgerald and Jean-Paul Sartre, and a few remarkable twists and turns along the way, and you've got one of the funniest and most playful graphic novels of the year. Like Jason's acclaimed Why Are You Doing This?, The Left Bank Gang is rendered in full spectacular color. This is Jason's eighth graphic novel in six years for Fantagraphics, and his audience continues to grow with every acclaimed release. 130123 30 3 2006 The Left Bank Gang total:208|5:58|4:94|3:44|2:11|1:1| 208 821 261 32 4 1 false false Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 28 00:39:55 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 14 15:16:33 -0700 2008
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But this book is about old-timer writers (Hemingway, F Scott, et...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 13:25:52 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 13:28:39 -0700 2008 The "alternate history" version of Paris, in which Fitzgerald, Hemingway and others are cartoonists instead of writers...and in t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 29 16:49:13 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 07:14:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 27 14:42:47 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 14:42:47 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 14 07:39:15 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 30 20:27:04 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 23 13:42:44 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 13:44:25 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 08:50:44 -0700 2007 Sun May 20 12:38:03 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 03 21:54:52 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 21:58:21 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=135037