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Høsten 2015 fylte John Arne Sæterøy alias Jason 50 år. I den anledning ga han seg selv den personlige utfordringen om å gå den 800 km lange pilegrimsveien til Santiago de Compostela i Spania. Denne boka skildrer inntrykk og opplevelser fra de 32 dagene turen varte. Det ble givende møter og samtaler med andre vandrere, men også verkende føtter, veggedyr og snorking på sovesaler.

An illustrated alternate-world tale in which graphic novels are a dominant form of fiction traces the careers of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce, who meet in a Parisian bar to discuss the particulars of their work, the achievements of graphic giants Dostoevsky and Faulkner, and the recommendations of such contemporaries as Gertrude Stein. Original.

A detective is walking down the street. It is raining. He sees a "Lost Cat" poster. A minute later he sees the cat from the photo. He picks it up and goes back to the poster. He calls the number. A woman answers. He turns up at her place and gives her the cat. She invites him in from the rain for a cup of coffee. They talk and find out they have a lot in common: both are divorced and living alone. Some days later he invites her out for a dinner. She accepts. He shows up at the agreed time. She doesn't. He calls her home and knocks on her door. No answer. He asks the neighbors. They haven't seen her. She has disappeared. He makes some phone calls and investigates, but can't find her. He gets a new client and has to start working on a new case. In his head he continues their conversation. Lost Cat, the new graphic novel by Jason (after years of "graphic novellas" of less than 50 pages, arguably his first genuine graphic NOVEL) is both a playful take on the classic detective story, and a story about how difficult it is to find a sister spirit, someone you feel a real connection to--and what do you do if you lose that person?

Jason (TM)s latest collection of full color comics indulges in his light and playful side, consisting of eleven wildly off-kilter stories that mix incongruous elements of pop culture and a variety of genres, pastiches and mash-ups in a delightful soupcon of graphic storytelling. Frida Kahlo is a hired killer. Santo, the Mexican wrestling film star, faces his ultimate challenge. The rise and fall of Chet Baker "told in six pages. Night of the Vampire Hunter. The last word on the JFK assassination conspiracies. A non-linear heist story that also somehow includes images by Magritte. A big bug story based on 1950s black-and-white films. And what would Van Morrison (TM)s Moondance album look like if it was a horror comic? All as foretold by Nostradamus, of course. And all told by Jason, whose sly and elusive meanings are hidden beneath a beguilingly deadpan style.

In this graphic novel, a hitman travels back in time to kill Adolf Hitler in 1939... but things go spectacularly wrong.

Northwestern Spain, observed with the eye of an artist, chronicling both the good (people, conversations) and the bad (blisters, bedbugs) he encountered on his journey. Full of quiet incidents, odd encounters, small triumphs, and the occasional setback, On the Camino is the first implicitly autobiographical long-form work by a master cartoonist.

Ernest Hemingway stars in three interconnecting short stories in this graphic novel. Paris, 1925. Our story begins when Hemingway meets Athos, the last Musketeer, who, together with several more friends of Hemingway, travel to Spain's Pamplona for the fiesta. Festivities and complications ensue. Paris, 1944. The second story starts the day after the liberation of Paris when Hemingway, now a war correspondent, decides enough is enough, and takes action to end the war for good. With a group of adventurers and resistance fighters, he parachutes into Germany to do just that. Cuba, late 1950s. Our literary lion is in his twilight years, writing his memoirs, remembering his first and second meeting with the seemingly immortal Athos. Mixing fact and fiction, Jason has imaginatively recreated one of America's greatest and most controversial writers of the 20th century.

Denne boka inneholder tre separate fortellinger: Magritte-banden – et surrealistisk mysterium der kunstmalere plutselig forsvinner. Døden i Trieste – en dadaistisk krim med blant annet Rasputin, Marlene Dietrich og David Bowie på rollelisten. Sweet Dreams – en apokalyptisk science fiction-historie der 80-talls musikkhelter prøver å redde verden.

I den franske byen Montpellier bor juveltyven Sven. Når han går på tyvetokt om natten, kler han seg ut som varulv for å skremme dem som eventuelt tar han på fersk gjerning. Det går bra helt til han blir oppdaget av ekte varulver. De er svært misfornøyde med at en konkurrent har beveget seg inn på deres jaktmarker, og prøver å sette ham ut av spill. I dette albumet leker Jason i kjent stil med referanser fra film og annen populærkultur. Samtidig forener han spenning, surrealisme, humor og romantikk i en og samme fortelling.

"Athos i Amerika" er en samling av seks nye historier i en bok på tilsammen 200 sider. Jason viser igjen sin karakteristiske, filmatiske fortellerevne der tegninger og dialoger er svært forenklet, men likevel innholdsrike og med et gripende uttrykk. Historiene rommer flere narrative lag, der de menneskelige relasjonene hele tiden har en fremtredende plass. Her er alt fra rabiate gangstere og avkutta hoder, til sexy damer og trofast kjærlighet - og ikke minst en serietegner med hissig temperament. Selv om alvoret er tydelig tilstede, preges historiene også av en raus porsjon humor, ironi og humanisme.

Fire fortellinger i én bok: «The Wicklow Way» -En serieskaper på vandring i et vakkert irsk landskap med mange sauer og få mennesker. «L. Cohen: Et liv» - En fantasifull og høyst uoffisiell biografi om Leonard Cohen. «Diamantene» - To detektiver som blir innhentet av sine egne private problemer. «Å, Josephine!» - Den liden.skapelige kjærligheten mellom Napoleon Bonaparte og Josephine Baker som overvinner tid og rom, men som ender i tragedie.

Pamplona 1925: Hemingway begeistres av tyrefekting og fiestaens magi. Paris 1944: Hemingway leder et kommandoraid for å ta Hitler og avslutte krigen. Cuba 1959: Hemingway minnes da han møtte Athos, den siste musketer. "God natt, Hem" består av tre historier der fiksjon og fakta veves sammen til en underholdende, original og tankevekkenede fortelling om Ernest Hemingway.

Kafka møter The Prisoner. Spock møter Kiki fra Montparnasse. Athos møter Van Gogh, og David Bowie. Vampyrer og dinosaurer, James Joyce og Dostojevskij. I denne samlingen av korte historier sjonglerer Jason med et stort og mangfoldig persongalleri.

The acclaimed graphic novelist Jason returns with his most eagerly awaited book yet, thanks to the inclusion of the title story, the world's first (and likely last) chess western, originally serialized in 2008 in the New York Times Sunday Magazine "Funny Pages" section. This 216-page hardcover book features five yarns--all brand new with the exception of the aforementioned "Low Moon," which is collected into book form for the first time. The new stories lead off with "Emily Says Hello," a typically deadpan Jason tale of murder, revenge and sexual domination. Then, the wordless "&" tells two tales at once: one about a skinny guy trying to steal enough money to save his ill mother, and the other about a fat guy murderously trying to woo his true love. The reason we follow these two parallel stories becomes obvious only on the very last page, in Jason's inimitable genre-mashing style. "Early Film Noir" can best be described as The Postman Always Rings Twice meets Groundhog Day. But starring cavemen. And finally, "You Are Here" features alien kidnappings, space travel, and the pain and confusion of family ties, culminating in an enigmatic finale that rivals Jason's greatest twists. Funny, poignant, and wry, Low Moon shows one of the world's most acclaimed graphic novelists at the absolute peak of his powers.