Jason

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The second book from one of Europe's most acclaimed young artists. Entirely told in pantomime, this suite of short tales veers from the funny to the terrifying to the surreal to the touching. Like Chris Ware's, Jason's clean, deadpan style (featuring animal-headed characters with mask-like faces) hides a wealth of emotion and human complexity, leavened with a wicked wit. Jason's work has also drawn comparisons to Art Spiegelman for the similar ways both artists utilize anthropomorphic stylizations to reach deeper, more general truths, and to create elegantly minimalist panels whose emotional depth-charge comes as an even greater shock. His dark wit and supremely bold use of "jump-cuts" from one scene to the next are endlessly surprising and exhilarating. Jason's previous book, the graphic novella Hey, Wait..., was released in English to great acclaim in September of 2001. This second book is very much in the same graphic and narrative style. Author Biography: Part of a new wave of Scandinavian cartoonists that began flourishing in the 1990s, the Norwegian Jason has been publishing his own comic, Mjau Mjau, since 1998. He lives in Oslo, Norway.