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''Jaka's Story'' is the fourth major storyline in Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's ''Cerebus'' comics series. There is danger in the air, as the fascist matriarchal Cirinists have conquered the city of Iest. Cerebus hides from them halfway between the Upper and Lower cities in the mountainside home of Jaka, the woman he's in love with, and her husband, Rick. Jaka works illegally as an exotic dancer in a tavern with no clients while Pud, the tavern owner, secretly lusts for her, revealed using interior monologue. A caricature of Oscar Wilde is their neighbour and friend of Rick, much to the chagrin of Jaka and Pud, who dislike him. Cerebus himself stays largely in the background, and is almost entirely absent from the second half of the book, as the story focuses mainly on development of the characters Jaka, Rick, Pud and Oscar. The book flashes back and forth between Jaka's lonely, aristocratic childhood up to her twelfth birthday, and the "present" time of the main ''Cerebus'' storyline. The "present" sections are told in comics form while the "past" portions are told in flowery prose sections, which the reader finds out later are written by Oscar (and are in Sim's imitation of Wilde's writing style), unknown to Jaka and based on what Oscar has heard from Rick. While one part of the larger ''Cerebus'' story, this novel is considered complete in itself and a good introduction to the ''Cerebus'' storyline. It was collected as the fifth paperback "phonebook" collection in the series in October 1990. ==Overview== The story alternates between "the present" in regular comics pages (mostly done in a six-panel grid) and "the past" in illustrated text passages.〔 Cerebus' character remains mostly in the background, and doesn't even appear in most of the second half of the book.〔 The overblown prose of the text passages, the reader discovers later, were written by Jaka and Rick's artistic neighbour Oscar (a caricature of Oscar Wilde).〔 It tells the tale of Jaka's childhood and aristocratic origins〔 as she is brought up in her uncle Lord Julius' household with an overbearing Nurse, as interpreted by Oscar from stories he has heard from Rick. Nurse's face is never seenoften it is replaced with the face of Jaka's doll, Missy).〔 The story is told with a limited number of people and locations, creating a confined, claustrophobic feeling.〔 Much of the novel is spent developing the characters, and Cerebus himself takes a back-seat rôle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jaka's Story (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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