'Keeping Two' è apparentemente una storia sulla perdita, ma anche un viaggio in cui si trova qualcosa lungo la strada, qualcosa che era sembrato irredimibile fino a quel momento. È, In questo senso, è anche un libro profondamente romantico. Una giovane coppia è bloccata nel traffico e legge un libro ad alta voce per passare il tempo. La relazione è già tesa, ma tra la rabbia del sentirsi intrappolati nell'abitacolo, il frastuono dei clacson e un romanzo che tocca corde troppo intime, la tensione sale alle stelle. Quando, raggiunto l'appartamento, uno di loro esce per comprare la cena e noleggiare un film per la serata, ognuno dei due giovani innamorati è costretto a confrontarsi, in assenza dell'altro, con il vuoto e l'insicurezza, in modi inattesi e scioccanti. Jordan Crane costruisce con abilità hitchcockiana una narrazione, costata vent'anni di lavoro, che intreccia su diverse linee temporali le vite ordinarie dei suoi protagonisti e i loro pensieri, ricordi E paure, fino a creare una vertigine crescente, di terrore e paranoia. È questa tensione a 'tenere insieme' i pezzi ciò che rende 'Keeping Two' una delle graphic novel più emozionanti del panorama contemporaneo, un brillante dramma per adulti che mostra una profonda empatia e compassione per i suoi personaggi.

In this 80-page volume, Jordan Crane draws us in with two gripping and wrenching stories, one of the mundane, and the other of the fantastic. First, there is “Keeping Two.” William’s girlfriend goes missing during a trip to the supermarket, and he must look down the long dark narrow tunnel that his life will become without her. He is reading a book, but the book doesn’t help, and indeed feeds his anxieties, rendering his loss in starkly contrasting lines. The second story, “Discovering the Dark,” is 26 pages and drawn with two colors. Akihiro Akaike is employed as a repairman aboard an asteroid mining ship in the year 2033. In his spare time, he is an amateur astrophysicist, and a discovery he makes drives him steal supplies and a company ship in order to make a clandestine 7-month voyage. However, when the mining operation discovers his plans, he is forced into a rapidly deteriorating set of probabilities.

A heartbreaking novella from the author of The Clouds Above.

From the editor of the acclaimed comics anthology NON comes this beautiful, emotive 'Picto-Novella.' Largely wordless and cunningly rendered, this little book is sure to touch most folks. In The Last Lonely Saturday, an older man sits at his kitchen table, filled with melancholy. Dishes are piled up in the sink, a full pot of coffee burns on the counter; it's a quiet scene of existential despair. It quickly becomes clear that the man is a widower, and today is the day to visit his departed wife's gravesite. Little does he know that what the day holds for him will result in this being his last lonely Saturday.

Both sweet and bitter, realistic and fantastic, The Last Lonely Saturday is an evocative, romantic novella, told in a beautiful two-color, red and yellow palette. His economical images waste not a line, and his narrative flows effortlessly from panel to panel in this heartwarming story of love and love lost.

This gorgeously packaged (yet affordable) children's fantasy has become an instant classic since its original hardcover release in 2005, as well as a perennial bestseller for Fantagraphics in three hardcover printings. This paperback edition includes five new pages not included previously.

The Clouds Above is a rip-roaring adventure about a kid named Simon, who skips school one day with his cat, Jack. They climb a magic staircase leading skyward, encounter a sad cloud named Perch and get mixed up in a conflict involving him, some nasty storm clouds and an irritable flock of birds. Will they make back home safely in time for school tomorrow?

This brilliant, full-color graphic novel doubles as a wondrous children's book, recalling such classics as Where the Wild Things Are, The Wizard of Oz and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, with its depiction of a fantastic world that lurks just around the corner from reality and that only children know exists.

This flexi-journal features the unique artwork of acclaimed silkscreen artist Jordan Crane.