Get a Life

Get a life
Get a Life is a collection of the early Mr. Jean stories published by Drawn and Quarterly for the first time in one handsome volume.

We are introduced to the life of the titular character, a laconic, single Parisian male struggling through the usual calamities of life: bachelorhood in his twenties and early thirties and the impending responsibilities of marriage, kids, and deadlines for his publisher.

Mr. Jean is a typical everyman - a scholar who fancies himself a man of letters, a nostalgist whose memories carry a weight few can understand, a lover whose heart knows the greatest of burdens. Melancholic yet joyful reflections on past loves, favorite authors, marriage, and fatherhood are laid out in a breezy, comic style.

Recommended for all the comic readers that want someting refined and different.