Books by Jason
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review 1: I put off reading Jason for a long time because I was snobbish about reading stories about talking animals, but now that I've got over myself I'll definitely be reading more.This is only the second book of Jason's work that I've read (Athos in America was my first), but already I...
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review 1: Fantastic. 3 stories put beautifully bound together in a hardcover. The first (Hey, Wait...) I'd read before and thoroughly enjoyed reading again (sad, honest tale recalling a childhood tragedy). The second (Sshhhh!) is a wordless story that is captivating (depressing, but not sa...
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review 1: Jason! Remember when I kind of hated you? Sorry!You're like delicious Norwegian candy, and I am grateful. This book was good for a laugh and a sigh -- full of weird little sight gags like when the protagonist puts on a werewolf mask and it looks indiscernible from his own dog-fac...
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review 1: This is the first Jason book I have read that is not a single story, but rather a collection of stories. I have to say that this seems like a weaker effort then the previous works I have read. If feels like he had an idea for the beginning, and middle of a story, but when it came...
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review 1: The book starts off with a mummy escaping his sarcophagus and walking outside. A startled bicyclist wrecks his bike when he sees the mummy. The mummy tries to approach various strangers for a quarter so he can call an ambulance for the poor bicyclist. Everyone runs away, terrifie...
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review 1: A book with 5 short stories inside it, "Emily Says Hello" and "&" were by far my favorite stories. "Emily Says Hello" is a rather seedy piece that, only at the end, turns somewhat beautiful in its simplicity. Equally, "&" is a sentimental tale that doesn't seem to make much sen...
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review 1: Sven dresses up as a werewolf and breaks into peoples places, figuring that if he's caught, the owner will be so surprised or scared that it will give him time to get away. Though there are actual werewolves that go looking for him after someone photographs him and it's published...
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review 1: Sigh. It's not easy being a foreign, anthropomorphic jewel thief living a restless life in southern France, especially when the neighbor you seem genuinely content to spend all your time with is in a committed same-sex relationship with another woman, and even more especially whe...
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review 1: Norwegian cartoonist Jason (John Arne Sæterøy) may be the foreign equivalent to Craig Thompson. Not because of similar story telling or similar art styles, but because both men can effectively make you feel like 200-500 pages is too short. Athos in America, the artists 17th trans...
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review 1: Fuck yeah it's Jason. But I didn't really like these stories so that review intro probably isn't appropriate. I opened the book with my glum face straight out of a Jason comic hoping for some fuck yeah because I've pretty well dug the hell out of the guy in the past. I'm emotiona...