Tell Me Something

By Jason

A blank-eyed, silent meditation on young love thwarted and re-kindled. If we can have graphic novels, we can surely have graphic novellas, and this latest book from the acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist Jason is a prime example of a tight, self-contained volume that tells one complete, satisfying story in a compact 48 pages. "Tell Me Something" picks up the stylized anthropomorphic characters of Jason's earlier works ("Hey, Wait..." and "The Iron Wagon"), as well as the challenge of all-pantomime (or almost) comics of "Sshhhh " to weave a yarn of young love thwarted and re-kindled. Switching smoothly between two time periods, alternating moments of tenderness and sadness with slapstick and irony, "Tell Me Something" is a virtuoso technical achievement as well as a funny and sad tale of romance and treachery. New readers will find themselves astonished at how deeply they come to identify with Jason's stylized, blank-eyed menagerie of characters, while those who shed a tear at "Hey, Wait..." will be somewhat prepared for the emotional wallops contained in this slender but perfect book in which every single line counts, and words are not needed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560975660
• ISBN13: 9781560975663
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.9" x 10.1"