The Yellow Jar
Subtitle: 2 Tales from Japanese Tradition (Songs of Our Ancestors;)
Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781561633319
Subjects: Graphic novels; Myth & legend told as fiction; Graphic Novels - General; Folklore; Art & Art Instruction; Fiction; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Classics; General; Techniques - Painting; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
First sentence: A few years ago, fellow cartoonist Brian Apthorp sent me a package containing drawing samples of a young student of his.
Description: Introducing the delightfully precise and beautifully designed art of Patrick Atangan in a new series of adaptations of traditional Asian tales. This book, presents "The Yellow Jar" which centers around a simple fisherman and a beautiful maiden he takes as wife, after finding her in a magic jar. However, she is abducted by a demon warrior considerably more powerful than the simple fisherman. But the fisherman's resolve, even after many unsuccessful attempts to rescue her, does not flinch... In "Two Chrysanthemum Maidens", a monk is faced with two rather strange wild flowers in his carefully tended garden. They are wild and have planted themselves there at will. They are weeds but they are lovely like women.