{"title":"Jordan Crane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJordan Crane\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts graphic novels that blend subtle emotional depth with striking visual storytelling. His work often explores the complexities of personal relationships and the quiet moments that shape our lives, inviting readers into intimate and thought-provoking narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles like \u003cem\u003eGoes Like This\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKeeping Two\u003c\/em\u003e, Crane’s stories balance humour and poignancy, making his graphic novels both relatable and visually engaging. Expect carefully rendered art that complements thoughtful, character-driven plots.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"goes-like-this-by-jordan-crane-9781683967729","title":"Goes Like This","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor almost three decades, master cartoonist Jordan Crane has put together a body of short stories that garnered him multiple Eisner and Ignatz Award nominations, via the pages of his comic book series \u003cem\u003eUptight\u003c\/em\u003e and the influential comics anthology, \u003cem\u003eNon\u003c\/em\u003e. Yet they have never been collected until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing over a dozen short stories (spanning multiple genres) published over the past 25 years, \u003cem\u003eGoes Like This\u003c\/em\u003e is a gorgeously packaged anthology (including varying paper stocks and exposed spine) of Crane's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Hand of Gold\" is a short but grim Weird Western, a morality play in which an accidental crime leads a criminal to a supernatural maximum security cell. \"Below the Shade of Night\" presents an anxiety that is rooted in the follies and ignorance of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. \"Vicissitude\" maps uncharted territory of graphic melancholia via a tale of infidelity. \"Trash Night\" depicts the troubled relationship of Dee and Leo, with mounting tension and mistrust that reaches a boiling point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"The Dark Nothing,\" a rare foray into science fiction, the three-person crew of prospecting ship Sagasu 17 attempt to harvest an asteroid, and things go horribly awry. \"The Middle Nowhere\" begins with a man waiting in a small shack. All around him is a black sand desert. The wind rises, the rain comes, and it just might be the end of everything he's known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso featuring additional prints and drawings from the author's archives, \u003cem\u003eGoes Like This\u003c\/em\u003e is a tantalising sampler of one of the most brilliant cartoonists working today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362605383916,"sku":"9781683967729","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15380563482787.jpg?v=1772896117"},{"product_id":"keeping-two-by-jordan-crane-9781683965183","title":"Keeping Two","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie, each of the young lovers is individually forced to confront loss, grief, fear, and insecurities in unexpected and shocking ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCrane's formal use of the comics medium—threading several timelines and the interior and exterior lives of its protagonists together to create an increasing, almost Hitchcockian sense of dread and paranoia—is masterful. But as the title hints, there are dualities at its core that make it one of the most exciting works of graphic literary fiction in recent memory, a brilliant adult drama that showcases a deep empathy and compassion for its characters as well as a visually arresting showcase of Crane's considerable talents. \u003cem\u003eKeeping Two\u003c\/em\u003e is ostensibly a story about loss, but by the end, it just might also be about finding something along the way—something that had seemed irredeemable up to that point. In that way, it's also a deeply romantic book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCartoonist Jordan Crane has been one of the most quietly influential comics-makers of the past quarter-century—in multiple senses of the word: as a cartoonist, a designer, an editor, a publisher, a printmaker, an advocate, an archivist, and more. But \u003cem\u003eKeeping Two\u003c\/em\u003e is his biggest project in close to two decades and will be one of the most anticipated graphic novels of 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596721832172,"sku":"9781683965183","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/51f46550c6a26caf774c20003238d55c.jpg?v=1777939164"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jordan-crane.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}