Cartoonist: Jay Stephens
Publisher: Black Eye Books, Toronto, Canada
Format: 5.75" x 8.25" / Full Colour / 256 pages / Perfectbound softcover
Cover price: 24.99 USD / $28.99 CAD ISBN: 978-1-9991635-5-6
Publication date: Nov. 2021
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About the Book:
Jetcat & Friends is the definitive, full-colour collection of every one of Jetcat's comic book adventures, combining the long out of print stories from Jetcat Clubhouse, Nickelodeon Magazine, and the multiple Eisner-Award-nominated Land Of Nod Rockabye Book into one, ultimate, 248 page explosion of colour!
And if one ’90s TV cartoon star wasn’t enough, & Friends also includes the original Tutenstein comics, as well as Space Ape Number Eight, Oddette, Bug Patrol, and more!
248 pages, full colour, 5.75" x 8.25" trade paperback on high quality uncoated paper with a matte laminated cover. All ages with some cartoon violence.
Praise for Jay Stephens’ work in Jetcat and The Land of Nod Rockabye Book
Alan Moore called Jetcat “a fluorescent milkshake of a comic book, Jay Stephens’ Jetcat is Saturday morning forever, a timely reminder of what comics are there for, and of how good they can actually be.”
The Comics Journal wrote “If Hanna-Barbera delt with existential angst and deconstructionalism, the end result would probably resemble the Land of Nod, the new comic from Jay Stephens. I sincerely doubt, however, that they would do anywhere near as good a job as he has. Make no mistake, this book is quite an achievement.”
Cartoonist Paul Pope said these comics have “an exuberant joie de vivre and a sense of the absurd, which makes even mundanity delightful”
About Jay Stephens:
Jay Stephens is a Canadian cartoonist and illustrator currently living in Guelph, Ontario. He is best known as the creator of Discovery Kids’s animated television series Tutenstein,Cartoon Network’s The Secret Saturdays, and the Jetcat animated shorts for Nickelodeon's anthology series, KaBlam!. Aside from his work in animation, Jay is recognized for several comic book projects, including SIN, The Land of Nod, Atomic City Tales, and Jetcat Clubhouse, and has written and drawn for licensed properties such as Alien, Star Wars, Felix the Cat, and Teen Titans. Jay is the creator of the comic strips, Oddville!, Chick & Dee (in Chickadee magazine), Xtra-curricular and Arrowhead (in OWL magazine), and (with writer Bob Weber Jr.) the daily newspaper strip Oh, Brother!. Jay’s most recent collection is Dejects (2019) featuring nearly thirty years worth of hitherto uncollected works. His most recent project, the ongoing anthology horror series Dwellings, launched in 2020.
About Black Eye Books:
From 1993–1998, Black Eye Books published such notable cartoonists as Jay Stephens (Dwellings, The Land of Nod, Atomic City Tales), Nick Craine (Dance Me Outside), Jason Lutes (Jar of Fools, Berlin), Tom Hart (The Sands), Jeremy Eaton (World of Trouble), Matt Madden (Black Candy), James Kochalka (Quit Your Job), Ed Brubaker (Lowlife), Brian Biggs (Dear Julia), and New Zealand's Dylan Horrocks (Pickle, Hicksville).
Relaunched in 2019 by publisher Michel Vrana, Black Eye Books continues its pursuit of publishing eclectic and engaging stories told in the form of words and pictures.
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