Jason, Author . Fantagraphics $24.99 (214p) ISBN 978-1-60699-155-8
The longest American book to date (and first hardcover) from Norwegian comics master Jason, Low Moon
is actually a collection of five marvelously deadpan short stories. The expressionless anthropomorphic animals who populate his comics milk...
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Jason, Fantagraphics, $12.99 paper (48p) ISBN 978-1-60699-359-0
Deadpan dialogue, drawings that move from panel to panel with the strange and deliberate force of kung fu performance art, and a subtle interweaving of humor and angst come together to make this a brief knockout of a book. Jason's cast of sober-faced
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Jason. Fantagraphics, $24.99 (196p) ISBN 978-1-60699-478-8
Norwegian cartoonist Jason has returned with more full-color stories populated by lonely, and at times sociopathic, anthropomorphic characters. Cats, dogs, and ducks steal, fight, murder, and drink themselves into oblivion. Although brimming with...
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Jason. Fantagraphics, $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-60699-642-3
A humorous PI story populated by animals takes a turn toward the absurd in the newest—and longest yet—graphic novel by Jason (Athos in America). Dan, a dog detective who evokes Humphrey Bogart’s down-on-their-luck antiheroes, is consumed by a chance
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Jason. Fantagraphics, $29.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-6069-9854-0
This collection of shorts by Ignatz Award–winning Norwegian cartoonist Jason (The Left Bank Gang) explores the existential ennui of theft and betrayal; alternate histories and conspiracies of the JFK assassination; and the ultimate masked Mexican...
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Jason and Fabien Vehlmann. Fantagraphics, $14.99 trade paper (56p) ISBN 978-1-60699-442-9
Jason and Vehlmann's story of a young girl seeking the help of pirates to track down her lost father mixes elements of grim family drama with light and dark comedy to create an engrossing story that keeps readers surprised with sudden twists in both
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Jason, Author, Hubert, Illustrator . Fantagraphics $12.95 (46p) ISBN 978-1-56097-742-1
Using only a few pages, Jason manages to craft two different stories that happen to star the same characters. The characters are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and other literary giants as they live their legendary bohemian...
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Jason, Author, Hubert, Illustrator . Fantagraphics $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-56097-889-3
Having already plundered Hitchcockian wrong-man scenarios (Why Are You Doing This?
), zombie flicks (The Living and the Dead
) and alternate history paradoxes (I Killed Adolf Hitler
) for his own sardonic purposes, Jason goes this time for a...
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Jason, Author . Fantagraphics $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-56097-828-2
Between the opening note of perverse sexuality and the touching tribute to the permanence of true love at the end, murder, time travel and alternate futures fill in the second act of this astonishing graphic novel. Such a tale could only be penned...
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Jason, Author Fantagraphics Books $9.95 (44p) ISBN 978-1-56097-794-0
With the plethora of zombie comics and films out there, the idea of one more hardly sounds appetizing. But no matter what genre Norwegian cartoonist Jason touches, he owns it. His style is too inventive and distinctive to be overpowered by any of...
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Jason. Fantagraphics, $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-6839-6021-8
Upon turning 50, esteemed Norwegian cartoonist Jason (I Killed Adolf Hitler) walked the Camino de Santiago (or St. James’s Way), a 500-mile pilgrimage route to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. The result is his first...
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Jason. Fantagraphics, $22.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-68396-210-6
In his trademark spare style, Norwegian cartoonist Jason tells four short stories of romance, wanderlust, and human foibles. “The Wicklow Way” recalls a long hike along the titular Irish trail; “L. Cohen: A Life” turns Leonard Cohen into a comic...
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Dan & Jason. First Second, $12.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-250-25555-6
A friendly beach excursion turns into a fantastical adventure in this action-filled early reader graphic novel debut reminiscent of Nickelodeon cartoons. Within a three-story tree house reside three neighbors and best buds: Blue, a periwinkle worm...
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Jason. Fantagraphics, $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-68396-461-2
The legend of Ernest Hemingway is given a laconic, witty spin in this quirky three-part biography with fantastical elements from Eisner Award–winning Norwegian cartoonist Jason (I Killed Adolf Hitler). Tracking the arc of the novelist’s career, it...
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Jason. Fantagraphics, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-68396-652-4
This clever collection of absurdist shorts by Norwegian cartoonist Jason (The Left Bank Gang) features some of the Eisner Award winner’s zaniest conceits to date. Fueled by his usual preoccupations with modern literature, film noir, and EC Comics,...
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