Jason Shiga

No matter how hard he tries, Jimmy Yee cannot die. A noose around his neck, a razor across his wrist, and even a bullet to his head all yield the same results:he awakes from each suicide attempt, miraculously unharmed, in his shabby room at the Sunbeam Motel. Has he gone mad? Or has he truly died and found himself in hell? Jimmy is willing to tear the world down around him to get at the truth. Highly analytical and utterly unscrupulous, he is uniquely suited to unraveling this bizarre mystery. From the brilliant and profane mind of Jason Shiga, known for his high-concept graphic novels, comes Demon: a four-volume magnum opus about the unspeakable chaos that one indestructible man can unleash on the world—and the astronomical body count he leaves behind.

Demon

In this choose-your-own adventure graphic novel, a boy stumbles on the laboratory of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, and a doomsday machine.

Meanwhile

The year is 1973. A priceless book has been stolen from the Oakland Public Library. A crack team of Bookhunters (aka. library police) have less than three days to recover the stolen item. It's a race against the clock as our heroes use every tool in their arsenal of library equipment to find the book and the mastermind who stole it.

Bookhunter

div Jimmy is a stereotypical geek who works at the library in Oakland, California, and is trapped in his own torpidity. Sara is his best friend, but she wants to get a life (translation: an apartment in Brooklyn and a publishing internship). When Sara moves to New York City, Jimmy is rattled. Then lonely. Then desperate. He screws up his courage, writes Sara a letter about his true feelings, and asks her to meet him at the top of the Empire State Building (a nod to their ongoing debate about Sleepless in Seattle). Jimmy's cross-country bus trip to Manhattan is as hapless and funny as Jimmy himself. When he arrives in the city he's thought of as "a festering hellhole," he's surprised by how exciting he finds New York, and how heartbreaking—he discovers Sara has a boyfriend! Jason Shiga's bold visual storytelling, sly pokes at popular culture, and subtle text work together seamlessly in Empire State, creating a quirky graphic novel comedy about the vagaries of love and friendship. Praise for Empire State: "He [Shiga] displays a wicked sense of comic timing." -Publishers Weekly "Empire State: A Love Story (Or Not) is funny, sweet, geeky and affecting, and definitely worth a read." -Wired.com "Shiga's illustrations . . . are unique and endearing, and his images of NYC are instantly recognizable." -am New York "If Woody Allen grew up in Oakland rather than Manhattan, he'd most likely see the world, and especially New York City, as Jason Shiga does in Empire State." -Big Think.com /DIV

A Love Story (or Not)

Empire State

Volume 1 was an Eisner Award winner and LA Times Book Prize finalist! The OSS is after Jimmy, and they're planning on using his daughter to catch him. But Jimmy will tear the world apart to keep his daughter safe. Literally. This morally bankrupt immortal freak of nature has absolutely no concern for the wellbeing of any human being besides himself and his Sweetpea. It'd be adorable if it weren't so scary. From the brilliant and profane mind of Jason Shiga, known for his high-concept comics work on the web and in print, comes a magnum opus, Demon: a four-volume mystery adventure about the shocking chaos (and astronomical body count) one highly rational and utterly sociopathic man can create in the world, given a single simple supernatural power.

Demon, Volume 2

Immortal actuary Jimmy makes a startling discovery: Agent Hunter, his long-dead adversary, is actually alive and a demon himself! Hunter has spent the last century concocting a deadly trap for his nemesis, and he has the perfect bait: Jimmy's daughter, Sweet Pea. In the epic showdown to to end all epic showdowns, we finally reach the thrilling conclusion to this madcap series.

Fleep

Tom was always made to feel different and weird, being the only Chinese in a white suburb of Boston. When he moves to San Francisco to stay with a distant cousin, what he discovers is a world beyond his wildest dreams; a "new" Chinatown filled with rich young hipsters, fast mopeds and flashy clothes. But behind the glimmer lies a world far more sinister. What is the secret of new Chinatown? And will Tom be sucked into its mysterious undeworld?

Double Happiness

Leviathan

the Beyond

Adventuregame Comics

Hello World

Demon #1

Oeuvre hors norme, défiant nos habitudes de lecture, Vanille ou Chocolat ? pousse à l'extrême l'idée du " livre dont vous êtes le héros ". Le lecteur suit les pas - et les choix - du petit Jimmy, confronté à un banal dilemme initial : quel parfum choisir pour sa glace, vanille ou chocolat ? Cette décision précipite un ensemble de conséquences des plus inattendues, qui peuvent aller jusqu'à la pure et simple fin du monde. Jimmy va rencontrer un savant fou, créateur de trois inventions diversement diaboliques - une machine à remonter le temps, un casque permettant de lire dans la mémoire récente de celui qui le porte, un " Killitron " enfin, engin d'anéantissement apocalyptique. Inventions qui permettent de décupler les potentialités narratives en jouant sur les paradoxes temporels, les répétitions, les allers-retours. Au final, Vanille ou Chocolat ? présente 3856 possibilités d'histoires - un record absolu. L'objet est constitué de 80 pages dotées de un à trois onglets, à travers lesquelles on circule en suivant un réseau de " tubes " colorés reliant les cases entre elles : le dispositif interdit tout parcours linéaire. Des codes secrets viennent encore corser l'affaire... Au final, Vanille ou Chocolat ? propose une expérience de lecture pleine de surprises, terriblement excitante, et véritablement plaisante, grâce à l'humour si particulier de Jason Shiga.

Vanille ou chocolat ?

Volume 1 was an Eisner Award winner and LA Times Book Prize finalist! Immortal actuary Jimmy makes a startling discovery: Agent Hunter, his long-dead adversary, is actually alive and a demon himself! Hunter has spent the last century concocting a deadly trap for his nemesis, and he has the perfect bait: Jimmy's daughter, Sweet Pea. In the epic showdown to to end all epic showdowns, we finally reach the thrilling conclusion to this madcap series. From the brilliant and profane mind of Jason Shiga, known for his high-concept comics work on the web and in print, comes a magnum opus: a four-volume mystery adventure about the shocking chaos (and astronomical body count) one highly rational and utterly sociopathic man can create in the world, given one simple supernatural power.

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