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Jason Martin

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Website

http://www.driftwoodcity.com/

Genre

Comics, Memoir, Fiction

Influences

Lorrie Moore, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Virginia Woolf, Soseki ...more

Member Since

June 2010

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/laterborn

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Jason lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has been self-publishing his comics since 2004 in zines like Laterborn and Black Tea, and in the book Driftwood City . In 2011, he wrote all the comics for the final issue of Papercutter (Tugboat Press), which earned an Ignatz Nomination and a Notable Comic in Best American Comics 2013. His work has also appeared in I Saw You (Three Rivers Press), Illustrated PEN, Zine Yearbook 9 (Microcosm), and Not My Small Diary. ...more

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Average rating: 3.53 · 1,323 ratings · 182 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections by Julia Wertz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), MariNaomi (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Gabrielle Bell (Contributor) 3.51 avg rating — 1,301 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zine Yearbook 9 by Joe Biel, Jason Martin (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Driftwood City 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Lines 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

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