Here's a special blog post from our fearless co-captain, Kim Thompson… Kim, take it away…
A shoutout to our buddy Jason, who returned to France last week after a whirlwind tour of the U.S. (New York/Portland/Seattle) to promote his new book LOW MOON and to visit his old haunts (he's lived in all three cities). He manfully signed and sketched for many fans in all three locales despite a persistent miserable cold – a true cartooning hero!
This seems like a good time to answer the "what's next" question from Jason fans…
Jason and I were so enamored of the LOW MOON format that we have decided to repackage all of his black-and-white and two-color books (except POCKETFUL OF RAIN) as two LOW MOON format books — in the process bringing back into print the out of print YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE, TELL ME SOMETHING, MEOW, BABY! (currently fetching $40 or more on Amazon), and THE IRON WAGON (up to $68!).
The first book, ALMOST SILENT, will collect the first three above, plus THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, and will be released toward the beginning of next year. (For a sneak peek at the new cover, see above.) The second book, tentatively titled WHAT I DID, will collect that hard-to-find IRON WAGON as well as SSHHHH! and HEY, WAIT, about a year later.
In the interim, that is to say next Summer, we'll be publishing a brand new Jason color album in the HITLER/LEFT BANK format, WEREWOLVES OF MONTPELLIER — his first graphic novel in the (by then) two and a half years since THE LAST MUSKETEER.