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„Hier auf dem Weg ist es einfach, man muss nur fragen: 'Woher kommst du?' und schon geht das Gespräch los.“ Der Jakobsweg ist eine 800 km lange alte christliche Pilgerroute nach Santiago de Compostela. Zu seinem fünfzigsten Geburtstag beschließt auch der norwegische Zeichner Jason, den Weg zu gehen. Leitmotiv von Jasons Erzählung ist die Schwierigkeit, allem vielbeschworenen Gemeinschaftsgefühl zum Trotz mit anderen Reisenden in Kontakt zu treten. Seine Begegnungen enden regelmäßig in Oberflächlichkeit, alle sympatisch wirkenden Menschen haben am Ende des Tages an ihrem Tisch leider keinen Platz mehr frei… In seinen gnadenlosen Reflexionen über das Trendthema Wandern, seine Mitreisenden und sich selbst, erweist sich Jason einmal mehr als Meister des trockenen Humors.

Wyobraź sobie nigdy nie nakręcone filmy Alfreda Hitchcocka, Bustera Keatona czy odkryte powieści Aleksandra Dumasa, zaadaptowane i sfilmowane przez współczesnego minimalistę, takiego jak Jim Jarmusch czy Wes Anderson a będziesz mieć pojęcie o wyjątkowym smaku komiksów Jasona. Dodaj do tego prostotę kreski i zwierzęce postacie. Jason, jeden z najbardziej ekscytujących współczesnych twórców komiksu nie boi się mieszać gatunków i wykorzystywać elementów fantastycznych. Dziwne, nieszablonowe opowieści ze zgryźliwymi dialogami i ponurym humorem. Tom zawiera trzy opowieści. Alex pogrążony w depresji po zerwaniu z dziewczyną, zostaje wciągnięty w najgorszy koszmar paranoika po tym, jak jego przyjaciel zostaje zamordowany, a wina spada na niego. Atos, ostatni muszkieter włóczy się bezcelowo. Wszystko się zmienia, gdy Marsjanie atakują Ziemię. Roboty, źli obcy, piękne księżniczki, promienie kontra szpady, zdrada i sekretne korytarze. Sven lubi nocne naloty na domy przebrany za wilkołaka. Sądzi, że kostium da mu dodatkową przewagę nad zaskoczonym właścicielem, jeśli sprawy przybiorą zły obrót ale nie wziął pod uwagę, że jego kamuflaż ktoś weźmie na serio.

In this absolutely bonkers comics collection, Norwegian cartoonist Jason follows his most oddball impulses, presenting to readers an intergalactic assortment of his weirdest, wildest short stories yet.

Blogger Jason Y. Ng has a knack for making the familiar both fascinating and funny. This collection of 36 essays examines some of the pressing social issues facing Hong Kong. It takes us from the gravity-defying property market to the plunging depths of old age poverty, from urban streets to beckoning islands, from the culture-shocked expat to the misunderstood Mainland Chinese and the disenfranchised domestic worker. The result is thought-provoking, touching and immensely entertaining.

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.

Jason has caught the hiking bug and decides to walk the Wicklow Way, where he encounters more sheep than he had bargained for. Leonard Cohen's storied life has been well archived, but never with so many Jason-esque liberties taken. (Did you know he beat Fidel Castro in chess? Learned the Heimlich from Frederico Garcia Lorca?) Two detectives are on a mysterious stakeout, but as secrets and motives are revealed their snooping becomes fatal. And, finally, the remarkable rollercoaster love story of Napoleon and Josephine Baker.

A matching volume to 2009'’s Almost Silent, What I Did collects three of Jason’s acclaimed 1990s graphic novels into a handsome, definitive omnibus format."Hey, Wait...," which was the first of Jason's books to be translated to English, tells the story of two childhood friends. A dreadful event midway through the story changes their lives forever, and the story becomes the summary of lives lived, wasted, and lost. Jason's sparse dialogue, dark wit, and supremely bold use of "jump-cuts" from one scene to the next make "Hey, Wait..." a surprising and engaging debut."Sshhhh!" is one of Jason’s virtuoso silent performances, the cradle-to-grave life of one of his bird-headed characters. A sharp suite of short tales, ranging from funny to terrifying to surreal to touching, all told entirely in pantomime. Jason's clean, deadpan art style hides a wealth of emotion and human complexity, leavened with a wicked wit.And the one Jason fans have been waiting for is the long-out-of-print "The Iron Wagon," an ingenious, atypically (for Jason) talky murder mystery set in early-20th-century Norway, adapted from a classic Norwegian novel by Stein Riverton — albeit starring Jason’s patented blank-eyed animal-headed characters and told in moody two-color panels.

Almost Silent packages four original Jason graphic novels, three of them out of print since mid-2008 into one compact, hardcover omnibus collection. (As the title indicates, this volume favors Jason's pantomime works.) You Can't Get There From Here, the longest story of the book (and the only one to be printed in color well, a color), tells the tale of a love triangle involving Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster, and The Monster's Bride: Jason cleverly alternates between totally silent sequences involving the three characters and scenes in which Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant discusses the day s events with a fellow hunchbacked assistant to another mad scientist. (You didn't know they had a union?) Tell Me Something is a brisk (271 panels), near-totally-silent (just a few intertitles) graphic novelette about love lost and found again, told with a tricky mixture of forward- and back-flashing narrative. Meow, Baby is a collection of Jason's short stories and gags, and finally, The Living and the Dead is a hilariously deadpan (and gory) take on the traditional Romero-style zombie thriller. All of these yarns star Jason's patented cast of tight-lipped (or -beaked) bird-, dog-, cat- and wolf-people, and show off his compassion and wry wit. Almost Silent is a perfect starting point for a new reader wanting to know what the fuss is all about, and a handsome, handy, inexpensive collection for the committed Jason fan.

The Camino de Santiago is a 500 mile, historic pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. It is walked by thousands every year, both Christians and non-believers. To mark his 50th birthday, the brilliant Norwegian cartoonist Jason decided that walking the length of the Camino was what he needed to do. On the Camino is Jason’s memoir of that trek — 32 days and 500 miles from St. Jean Pied de Port to Finisterre, observing with the eye of an artist, chronicling both the good (people, conversations) and the bad (blisters, bedbugs). Full of quiet incidents, odd encounters, small triumphs, and the occasional setback, On the Camino is the latest graphic novel by a master cartoonist.

Jason'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'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.