This flexi-journal features the unique artwork of acclaimed silkscreen artist Jordan Crane.

Now Apart, But Together Soon Journal

CRANE, Jordan

Arts & Photography

Chronicle Books+

Existential and bittersweet, dark themes meet vibrant composition in these thirty postcards featuring Jordan Crane's distinctive screenprints and comics.

Uptight All Night: 30 Postcards

Reference

Simon and his cat Jack take a shortcut to school that leads them on a series of adventures in the clouds, where they discover a fantastical world that is both far away and right around the corner. Kids.

The Clouds Above

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Fantagraphics Books

by Jordan Crane An older man sits at his kitchen table, filled with melancholy. Dishes are piled up in the sink, a full pot of coffee burns on the counter; it's a quiet scene of existential despair. The man is a widower, and today is the day to visit his departed wife's gravesite. Little does he know that what the day holds for him will result in this being his last lonely Saturday. Both sweet and bitter, realistic and fantastic, The Last Lonely Saturday is an evocative, romantic novella told in a beautiful two-color, red and yellow palette. His economical images waste not a line, and his narrative flows effortlessly from panel to panel in this heartwarming story of love and love lost.

Last Lonely Saturday

On their way through the city to school, Simon and his cat Jack keep taking shortcuts that lead them through fantasy worlds of wooden monsters and insatiable appetites, just for starters. Will they make back home safely? This is undoubtedly one of the more handsome and unique packages in recent memory, with a brilliant graphic novel inside that justifies its elegant format. The Clouds Above calls to mind everything from Where the Wild Things Are to The Wizard of Oz to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, with its depiction of a fantastic world that lurks just around the corner from reality and that only children believe exists.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

With UPTIGHT #3 Jordan Crane continues to map uncharted territory of graphic melancholia with his masterpiece-work-in-progress Keeping Two.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jordan also continues to build upon his ghost story obsession with a moody tale following an undead man as he revisits his former life. Plus! Simon & Jack from The Clouds Above are back in their second all ages adventure!

Uptight #3

by Jordan Crane The second issue of this all-new, incredibly affordable quarterly series from the acclaimed Jordan Crane! Split evenly among three stories, Uptight #2 will feature: an all-new Simon & Jack story (last seen in the best-selling 2005 graphic novel, The Clouds Above); the second chapter of Keeping Two; and one other complete, all-new short story surprise. With nothing else like it available on the market (a quarterly alternative comic for only $2.50!), this uniquely formatted ongoing series is flying off the shelves. Featuring 20 pages-plus-covers by one of comics' most exciting voices, find out why Uptight is the series debut of 2006!

Uptight #2

In this 80-page volume, Jordan Crane draws us in with two gripping and wrenching stories, one of the mundane, and the other of the fantastic. First, there is “Keeping Two.” William’s girlfriend goes missing during a trip to the supermarket, and he must look down the long dark narrow tunnel that his life will become without her. He is reading a book, but the book doesn’t help, and indeed feeds his anxieties, rendering his loss in starkly contrasting lines. The second story, “Discovering the Dark,” is 26 pages and drawn with two colors. Akihiro Akaike is employed as a repairman aboard an asteroid mining ship in the year 2033. In his spare time, he is an amateur astrophysicist, and a discovery he makes drives him steal supplies and a company ship in order to make a clandestine 7-month voyage. However, when the mining operation discovers his plans, he is forced into a rapidly deteriorating set of probabilities.

Uptight

20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan Crane. A 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. 
Crane'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. Keeping Two 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. 
Cartoonist 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 Keeping Two is his biggest project in close to two decades and will be one of the most anticipated graphic novels of 2022. 
Full-color illustrations throughout

Keeping Two

Goes Like This

Fantagraphics

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Now Apart, But Together Soon Journal

Uptight All Night: 30 Postcards

The Clouds Above

Last Lonely Saturday

The Clouds Above

Uptight #3

Uptight #2

Uptight

Keeping Two

Goes Like This