The Left Bank Gang is one of many graphic Novels produced by Norweigian Artist Jason.
It is a story of F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway living in Paris and working as comic artists, who decide to commit a robbery. It has an ending that would make Quentin Tarantino proud.
Drawn in Jasons clear line style similar to Hergé, Jason uses cartoon animal depictions of the characters. For me this focuses the readers attention on the actual story, rather than the art (which is deceptively simple but show a masterful understanding of sequential art), similar to Maus by Art Spiegelman.
If I had to recommend just one Jason book to a non reader, this would be that one.
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