Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories

Jason’s hauntingly spare graphic novel, collected here by Fantagraphics, follows a young man’s obsessive, doomed pursuit of a lost love through a noir-tinged European landscape. With clean, animal-headed characters and silent panels, the story unfolds with the quiet melancholy of a French film, while Kim Thompson’s translation preserves the original’s stark emotional weight. This single-issue volume, first released in 2008, showcases the Norwegian cartoonist’s signature blend of deadpan humor and profound loneliness, cementing its place as a quietly essential work of modern graphic storytelling.