If You Steal

Jason's latest collection of full color comics indulges in his light and playful side, consisting of eleven wildly off-kilter stories that mix incongruous elements of pop culture and a variety of genres, pastiches and mash-ups in a delightful soupcon of graphic storytelling. Frida Kahlo is a hired killer. Santo, the Mexican wrestling film star, faces his ultimate challenge. The rise and fall of Chet Baker--told in six pages. Night of the Vampire Hunter. The last word on the JFK assassination conspiracies. A non-linear heist story that also somehow includes images by Magritte. A big bug story based on 1950s black-and-white films. And what would Van Morrison's Moondance album look like if it was a horror comic? All as foretold by Nostradamus, of course. And all told by Jason, whose sly and elusive meanings are hidden beneath a beguilingly deadpan style.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 09/06/2015
ISBN: 9781606998540
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.50w x 0.90d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 10/16/2015 pg. 30
Publishers Weekly 10/26/2015