Hey, Wait...

by Jason, Kim Thompson (Translator)

One of Europe's most exciting young cartoonists makes his American debut.

This superbly evocative graphic novella by the award-winning Norwegian cartoonist Jason (his first appearance in the English language) starts off as a melancholy childhood memoir and then, with a shocking twist midway through, becomes the summary of lives lived, wasted, and lost. Like Art Spiegelman did with Maus, Jason utilizes 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 sparse dialogue, dark wit, and supremely bold use of "jump-cuts" from one scene to the next (sometimes spanning a number of years) make Hey, Wait... one of the most surprising and engaging debuts of the year.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction, Comix, Comic Book, Bande Dessinée

68 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

John Arne Sæterøy, better known by the pen name Jason, is an internationally acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist. Jason's comics are known for their distinctive, stone-faced anthropomorphic characters as well as their pace reminiscent of classic films.
Jason was born in 1965 and debuted in the early 80's, when still a teenager, in the Norwegian comics magazine 'KonK'. His first graphic novel Pocket Full of Rain (1995) won the Sproing Award, one of the main national awards for cartoonist.
In 2001 Jason started a fruitful collaboration with the American publisher Fantagraphics, which helped him gain international notoriety. Besides Norway and the U.S., his comics have appeared in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil.
Jason's stories feature a peculiar mix of dry humour, surrealism and tropes from a variety of pulp genres, such as noir novels and monster movies. His most celebrated works include: Hey, Wait... (2001), a tale of childhood and trauma; You Can't Get There from Here (2004), a re-telling of the myth of Frankenstein; The Left Bank Gang (2007), featuring fictional versions of Hemingway and other writers living in Paris in the 1920s; I Killed Adolf Hitler (2008), a story that mixes romance and time travel; The Last Musketeer (2009), a love letter to old sci-fi imaginary featuring king's musketeer Athos; Low Moon (2010), one of his many collections of short stories; Werewolves of Montpellier (2010); Isle of 100,000 Graves (2011), a pirate story co-written with French cartoonist Fabien Vehlmann; Lost Cat (2013), a thriller with a surreal spin.
Jason won a Harvey Award for best new talent in 2002 and Eisner Awards in the category 'Best U.S. Edition of International Material' for three consecutive years (2007-2009).
He has lived in Denmark, Belgium, the U.S., eventually setting for Montpellier, France in 2007.

Reviews

[Marpapad · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a quite emotionally gripping graphic novel. I am glad that I read it.

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hey, Wait, though an early Jason story, is one of the best of his work, powerful and sad. It is also collected as one of three short volumes in What I Did, too. The story is one of childhood tragedy, guilt and regret. Two childhood friends are experiencing the magic of childhood (soccer, gummi bears, climbing trees, “ding dong ditch,” comics, Batman club) and they make decisions about the future: “Never working in a factory.” “Nope, wanna be a comics artist.”

And then something happens that changes their lives forever.

The second half of the book depicts the now completely alone Jon (also the real life name of Jason) as an adult, working in that factory, drinking his evenings away. He does play tennis with a friend, complains about his job with him. Later in the story he meets a girl (now with another guy) he had a crush on that same summer. This has the effect of punctuating the lifelong sentence he is living. The implication is that some people—Jon, in particular—never fully recover from childhood tragedies.

Powerful, minimalist work, many panels, even pages, wordless, creating an emotionally gripping effect. Comics as allusive and subtle poetry. Heartbreaking. But an example of the best work from one of the greatest comics artists ever.

[Archit · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's always a story behind the books I read.

At midnight, my wife calls me up over the phone and tells me about this book. I postpone and take it to another day.

We had other books scheduled for the day. After 5 books down, I opened it.

And I sat and wept.

Not many books do that. This one did, just without words.
The pictures are so evocative that they take you in a stance. Stupefied.

The story of two friends plodding around on the look-out for fun. Etched out a plan as simple as that. The Batman Fan Club. Entries restricted to the worthy ones.

Poignantly, one made it to the club and the other one didn't.

The mental trauma that the 'survivor' survives is far worse than the arms of death.

Haunted and remorse with guilt, he finally hops on the ride that unites him with his friend.

Only if he could have said "Hey, Wait..." earlier. And in the end, even death looked at me, crestfallen.





Things would have been different....

Dark.
Fantastic.

With Graphics so vivid that they may make the hardest of the hardest weep.



A must read watch !

[Greta G · Rating 3 out of 5]

A story of despair, with an ambiguous ending.
Guilt can eat you up inside and you'll create punishment for yourself.

[Sam Quixote · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of Jason's earliest graphic novels and could arguably be his best. It starts with two friends who go through the usual childhood antics of playing football, playing computer games, slowly noticing girls, and being bored in school. Then a tragedy occurs with one of the friends being killed. The surviving friend is haunted by this event and Part 2 opens with him grown up, divorced, working a job he hates, and increasingly becoming dependent on alcohol.

It's a portrait of trauma painted subtly, touchingly, and imaginatively. The quirky devices Jason employs are here. Instead of cars everyone goes about on stilts. All the characters are of course animal faced. But the imaginative devices he uses like at the end of Part 1 to show how childhood ends for the friend who survives is brilliant and original. Time lapse in Part 2 is again dealt with well so the reader is jarred by the sudden span of years. Despite Jason's usual lack of expressions on his characters' faces, in "Hey, Wait..." he alters them so you see real pain, frustration, and regret in their faces. Also, coming out of an alcoholic bender is done remarkably well for the comics medium.

The ending is ambiguous but memorable and again blurs reality and fantasy. Is it a happy ending or a sad one? I promise you, even if you're not a comics fan once you've read this you'll be thinking about this book for years. An amazing work of art.

[Adam McPhee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh Christ, this was devastating. Perfectly captures the endless boring summer days of childhood, and a sort of regret(?) melancholy(?) that catches up with you in adulthood.

[Nandakishore Mridula · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow. I never knew graphic novels could be so powerful.

This the tale of a silly childhood act escalating into unspeakable tragedy. We may have come across many such cases (an eerily similar case happened during my childhood) but unless we are the person affected, we rarely look beyond the immediate repercussions. It is not the dead who matter, but the living - or those who are condemned to live with memories.

Using anthropomorphic characters, minimalist dialogues, creative temporal jump between panels and whiteout/ blackout techniques, Jason has created a hauntingly sad tale that will remain with the reader, long after the book has been closed.

[Bahar Hf · Rating 4 out of 5]

"هی فلانی! زندگی شاید همین باشد..."

کمیک "هی وایسا، یا "هی صبر کن..." همونطور که از اسمش میشه برداشت کرد، داستانیه برای دعوت به تامل، دیدن، توجه کردن و همینطور داستان آرزومندی برای متوقف کردن زمان، یا برگردوندن و متوقف کردن هر آن چیزی که در گذشته وجود داشته...
داستان، داستان از دست دادن هاست، از دست دادن کوچکترین دلخوشیهای زندگی، داستان پایان انتظار برای آینده...داستان توقف رویا... داستان توقف زمان...
شاید یادآور کوئنتین جوان رمان خشم و هیاهو...

بخش اول کتاب، روایت روزمره های یه پسر بچه و دوستشه که ظاهرا تمام وقتش رو باهاش میگذرونه. زاویه دید نویسنده متمرکز به  توجه به کوچکترین رخدادهاییه که شاید شیرین، شاید تلخ و شاید با بی حوصلگی و اجبار همراهند، اما همگی، داستان زندگی زیست شده ای اند که هرگز برنگشت:
بادبادکی که ساختیم و هوا کردیم اما پرنده ای به آنی نابودش کرد، ما تماشاکردیم، چندان ارزش نداشت، فراموش کردیم، رها کردیم و به دنبال سرگرمی دیگه ای رفتیم...
کلاس درسی که کسل کننده بود و ما به جای گوش کردن به معلم، سرمونو با نقاشی کشیدن گرم می کردیم...
درس می خوندیم و حین درس خوندن حواسمون پرت میشد، از عشقی حرف میزدیم یا راجع به نویسنده و کتاب محبوممون...
خوراکی می خریدیم و با فکر اینکه حوصله داریم چی بازی کنیم یه گوشه چنبره می زدیم...
میوه می چیدیم و از آرزوهای بزرگمون حرف میزدیم، مشق می نوشتیم و همزمان باید حواسمون به غرغرهای مامان و اطرافمون هم می بود...

داستان ستایش زندگی در برهه ای از زمانیه که هرگز متوجه زیسته شدنش نشدیم... داستان از دست دادن جریان سیال زندگی روزمره...

کاراکتر اصلی داستان، بعد از مرگ دوست نزدیکش که خودش رو مقصر مرگش میدونه، دچار یک رخوت طولانی مدت میشه، و دقیقا بعد از خاکسپاری دوستش در یک روز بارونی  وارد "بزرگسالی" و روزمرگی بعد از اون میشه... صحنه ای که منو یاد اسکار طبل حلبی بعد از خاکسپاری پدرش می انداخت و ماجرایی که مشابه سوگ داستان کوتاه "نفر هفتم" موراکامیه( به ریویوی من درباره مجموعه داستان بعد از زلزله مراجعه کنید)

ازین پس، تو بخش دوم، روزمرگی کسالت بار و سنگینی روزهای این شخص رو میشه مقایسه کرد با سبکی و روشنی روزمرگی های کودکیش... پنجره ای که تو خونه پدری رو به فضایی وسیع و سرسبز باز می شد، حالا به پنجره ی  آپارتمان های بلند و بی روح شهری باز میشه...
دویدنهای آزادانه کودکی در جنگل و دشت تبدیل میشه به سکون و تنهایی تو یک شهر پر ازدحام ... تمرکز نویسنده بر تنهایی کاراکتر در جمع و حتی "جمع تنها" است، توی مترو یا شهر شلوغ...
آرزوهای روزهای کودکی، سفر به دور دنیا، نویسنده و روزنامه نگار شدن، نفرت از کار تو کارخونه تبدیل میشه به اجبار به اشتغال کسالت بار تو همون کارخانه ی منفور زیر نظر کسی که احتمالا هوشمندتر از تو و بقیه ای که تحت نظرش هستن، نیست.
نرسیدن به عشق کودکی، به دلیل ترس از دست دادن در همون دوران و بعد، ترک شدن توسط یک زن در سنین بزرگسالی... و در آخر، رسیدن به نهایت زندگی بی معنا، رسیدن به فکر مرگ و مواجه شدن با همون مرگی که یکبار در سنین کودکی قبل از مرگ دوست صمیمی اش ، در حال دوچرخه سواری براش دست تکون داده بود...
انتهای داستان ملاقات با مرگ و ملاقات با پسربچه ایه که روزگاری "بود"...
صحنه های آخر بخش دوم، منو یاد حرفی که پدرم میزد انداخت، آدم وقتی به آخرای عمرش نزدیک میشه تموم روزهای خوش و تلخ زندگیش مثل یه قطاری که بدنه اش صحنه ی سینمای زندگیته از جلوی چشمات میگذرن، اونم در کسری از ثانیه... 
سوار شدن به اتوبوسی که راننده اش مرگه، و نشستن کنار انجمنی از مردگان به سوی مقصدی که معلوم نیست به کجا میره...
پایان، تلخ و شاید بازه... مخاطب مختاره که انتخاب کنه ایا کاراکتر داستان، مرگ واقعی رو انتخاب کرده و با انجمن مردگان واقعی همراه شده یا این انجمن مردگانی که باهاشون همسفر شده، صرفا زندگی در همون جمع تنهای مرده است... اینکه رودررویی با مرگ، واقعی یا نمادینه به وضوح مشخص نیست ولی در عین حال نقطه قوت کتابه.

این روایت، جابه جا منو یاد شعر تولد دیگر فروغ می انداخت:

زندگی شاید
یک خیابان درازست که هر روز زنی با زنبیلی از آن میگذرد
زندگی شاید
ریسمانیست که مردی با آن خود را از شاخه می آویزد
زندگی شاید طفلیست که از مدرسه بر میگردد
زندگی شاید افروختن سیگاری باشد، در فاصلهٔ رخوتناک دو همآغوشی
یا نگاه گیج رهگذری باشد
که کلاه از سر بر میدارد
و به یک رهگذر دیگر با لبخندی بی‌معنی میگوید «صبح بخیر»
زندگی شاید آن لحظهٔ مسدودیست
که نگاه من، در نی‌نی چشمان تو خود را ویران میسازد
و در این حسی است
که من آنرا با ادراک ماه و با دریافت ظلمت خواهم آمیخت
در ات��قی که به اندازهٔ یک تنهائیست
دل من
که به اندازهٔ یک عشقست
به بهانه‌های سادهٔ خوشبختی خود مینگرد
به زوال زیبای گل‌ها در گلدان
به نهالی که تو در باغچهٔ خانه‌مان کاشته‌ای
و به آواز قناری‌ها
که به اندازهٔ یک پنجره میخوانند
آه...
سهم من اینست
سهم من اینست
سهم من،
آسمانیست که آویختن پرده‌ای آنرا از من میگیرد
سهم من پائین رفتن از یک پلهٔ متروکست
و به چیزی در پوسیدگی و غربت واصل گشتن
سهم من گردش حزن آلودی در باغ خاطره‌هاست...

[Annelies · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes pictures become poems. This is.

[Tamoghna Biswas · Rating 3 out of 5]

"That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what hey say about the past. I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws it's way out."
--Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

I guess that says all. I'm not a big fan of graphic novels, probably because I've had never really tried reading them sincerely. This one is short: 64 pages took me...what? 15 minutes? The story is pint-sized and predictable, yet sweet and melancholic. I guess the nostalgic tale will be relatable to many, indirectly whatsoever. Because something can happen in a moment's choice; and even just a scratch becomes a hard pain to endure: scars always don't fade, just sits in there, smirking at you to remind the consequences of 'that thing' you can't entirely claim your fault.

I don't think my blabbering made perfect sense; but end of the day, it's definitely worth a read. 3 stars because it didn't bring tears, which it promised to me.

[Urbon Adamsson · Rating 4 out of 5]

"You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life."

We’re all broken souls, gathering the shattered pieces of ourselves, trying to make sense of it all, trying to make the most of what we have.

This is a story about how tragedy strikes, and the way we cope with the aftermath—the resilience, the pain, and the strength it takes to rise again.

[Fuchsia Groan · Rating 5 out of 5]

De todas las obras de Jason que he leído, esta Espera... es sin duda la historia más dura. Es maravillosa y brutal.

Las formas son perfectas, con esas seis viñetas que cuentan un momento en cada página, esos diálogos y dibujos tan simples e inexpresivos, pero que inexplicablemente expresan muchísimo, llegan al fondo.

Destaca también el contraste entre las dos mitades de la historia: esa primera parte sobre la infancia, despreocupada y alegre, llena de sensaciones y pequeños-grandes momentos, con ese final que lo cambia todo, seguido ya en la segunda parte narrando la vida adulta, tan pesimista, triste y solitaria, tan diferente de lo que nos prometíamos, monótona, casi una prisión.

Siempre tan melancólico.

[Jan Philipzig · Rating 5 out of 5]

Norwegian cartoonist Jason is the undisputed master of melancholia, and his uncanny ability to develop mood or illuminate a character's inner life by putting the spotlight on a few seemingly insignificant moments reaches the pinnacle of its potential here. The result is a story that captures feelings of regret and sorrow to absolutely devastating effect. Pure magic!

[matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Is it wrong to not want to recommend a book just because it is so sad? I really loved the powerful expression achieved with such simple drawings, but I kinda never want to look at it again.....

[I.Shayan · Rating 5 out of 5]

یک گرافیک ناول به سبک کامیک استریپ، در حالی که در نیمه اول داستان به‌نظر میرسه کتاب درحال بیان یه سری داستان اپیزودیکه، کم کم متوجه میشیم هدف از انتخاب این قالب داستانی بیان روزمرگی، تکرار و اتفاقات ساده‌ایه که در طی یک تابستان برای دوتا نوجوان میفته اتفاقاتی که پیوسته نیستند اما جزو زندگی‌اند ادامه هم دیگن در حالی که حتما لازم نیست پشت هم دیگه بیان شن.
نیمه اول کتاب بیانگر تمام اون بی‌هدفی آزادی سر به هوایی و آسودگی که در دوران نوجوانی همه ما گذروندیم دنیای ساده که توی تفریحات کوچیک و نه چندان هیجان انگیز تابستونی جمع شده، داستان بسیار زیبا و دوست داشتنی ولی از نیمه دوم داستان تغییر میکنه داستان میره به وقتی که شخصیت اصلی داستان ما بزرگ شده نکته جالب اینه که هر وقت نیمه دوم داستان میخونیم متوجه می‌شویم که چقدر نیمه اول داستان مهم بوده و چقدر تک تک افکار و اتفاقات روی یون (شخصیت اصلی داستان)
تاثیر گذار بوده، چقدر تک تک این پنل هایی که توی نیمه اول داستان کشیده شدند در حال تاثیر گذاشتن روی نیمه دوم بودن، دقیقا مثل زندگی.
این کتاب از نظر سادگی، واقع‌گرایی و سورئالیسم من رو یاد آثار مدرن سینما میندازه، از بخش های که انگار فیلم boyhood اون هارو ازش کش رفته تا داستان بازمانده‌ای که حالا نمیدونه چطور زندگیش رو ادامه بده که برای من یادآور فیلم Manchester by the sea بود

[Larnacouer de SH · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bjorn ve Jon dünyanın en masum ve kesinlikle en şapşal ikilisi olabilir!

Geçen gün yine böyle kısa bir graphic novel okumuştum, ismi Robot Dreams'ti. Lakin gel gelelim içinde yeterince robot bile barındırmıyordu, resmen click bait gibi. Kitap bitince insanın canını sıkan, "Ne okudum ben ya?" diye düşündüren cinsten.
Bu kitabında öyle olabileceğini düşünüp, büyük bi' ön yargıyla başlamıştım. Neyse ki öyle olmadı.

Yaa insan yeri gelince yanıldığı için bile seviniyormuş şu hayattakfjaskfashjh OF!

YANİ ÖZETLE: "Hey, Wait..." mevzusu çok iyiydi. Kısa ve öz bayıldım.

[Titus · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my first taste of Jason's work, and I can instantly see why he's so beloved. The first thing that stands out is his wonderfully subtle, understated approach to storytelling, which reminds me of Chester Brown (especially his comic I Never Liked You). The narrative is built through a series of short, low-key vignettes, mostly depicting mundane moments of the protagonist's everyday life. Dialogue is minimal, and there's no narration or exposition. Facial expressions are muted, only occasionally revealing emotions. The effect of this approach is a feeling of eminent honesty – a sense that, despite some surreal/supernatural elements, the story is fundamentally real and true.

The comic beautifully captures the innocence, joy and optimism of childhood, while also hinting at the ennui and social anxieties that come with the onset of adolescence. Thanks to the restrained storytelling style, the comic’s childhood sections are never saccharine or cloying, but they are certainly nostalgic, and they’re consistently pleasant to read, emparting a real warmth. This comic doesn't just dwell on nostalgia, though; it also powerfully contrasts this childhood with a bleak portrayal of an unfulfilling adulthood. Thus, it explores the effects that guilt and regret can have on a person, as well as looking more broadly at how a life can go off the rails and descend into loneliness and monotony. These adult parts are certainly dark (hints of Chris Ware or Seth), but Jason maintains a mercifully light touch that prevents them from becoming outright depressing.

[Pierre · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the epitome of the graphic novel as a literary work of art.
Jason shows amazing skill as he tells a deeply moving and touching story without a single word and with characters whose facial expressions are also very limited.
He exploits the language of the drawing and the panels masterfully to convey deep feelings and emotions.
Remarkable in all ways!!

[Ill D · Rating 4 out of 5]

Charming. Cute.

[Karen O · Rating 5 out of 5]

wow

[Neşet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Arkadaşlık, hayaller, sonsuz matem hakkında kısa ama dokunaklı bir kitap. Jason'ın ilk eseriymiş. Kendine ait yaratıcı bir dünyası olduğu daha ilk kitabından anlaşılıyor. Ömür boyu insanın içini kemiren suçluluk duygusu hakkında okuduğum en güzel yapıtlardan biri olabilir.

- What time is it?
- Summertime.

[Jemppu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gah... this really crept up on you. Touching, and beautifully surrealistic.

[Iva · Rating 4 out of 5]

На сайті є розгорнутий огляд.

Добре не скільки через душевність та драму, та в силу прекрасного скетчевого формату і доволі нестандартного підходу. Сюжетно, правда, обірвано, але разом із тим і якось дуже похмуро-життєво. Треба ще щось із Джейсона читнути.

[Verba Non Res · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Hey, wait…”

How many life-changing moments could be summed up in that sentence.

Nothing more than a well-placed pause, a few more seconds to think, would have been enough to avert catastrophe.

The distance between what was and what could have been is so tiny that we can't help but obsess over it. It seems easy to get around, not something unalterable, monolithic like the rest of our past.

If we only had a few more seconds to insert the saving phrase, and avoid the calamity and everything, including the present, that came after it.

“Hey, wait…”

If Jason is an artist, it is because he can say all this using only a few mostly silent vignettes populated by expressionless, anthropomorphic animals.

Of all the stories I've read by this author, "Hey, Wait..." seemed to me the most realistic, and also the most heartbreaking. When I speak of realism I am, of course, referring to the realness of the emotions, because from time to time the surreal components of Jason's stories flash through.

The protagonist of “Hey, Wait…”, in the adult version of him, tortures us with silence. He lacks the interlocutor, which he had as a child. However, we know, although we do not see it, that his perpetual interlocutor is his guilt. The distance between what was and what could have been, in this case, is reiterated in each blank space between vignette and vignette.

Blessed be those who have nothing to repent of, who have no way of identifying with this pseudo-dog.

[Skip · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not for me. Too maudlin, and I thought the artwork was very ordinary (although I suspect that was exactly the point.) Seemed like a book of regrets to me; hard to follow the non-linear plot. Lots of other people liked it though.

[Nate]

One of the advantages of getting into comics later in life is that fans have already pointed towards loads of good stuff, including creators who would otherwise fly under my radar. Such is the case with Norwegian cartoonist Jason. I’ve been seeing this guy’s name more and more frequently, always accompanied with strikingly simple covers of animal-type characters. This is my first proper brush with his work, and from what I understand it’s one of his first comics. What a thought-provoking read. I’m usually not one for slice-of-life stories, let alone ones about childhood, but I can’t deny how well-executed this is. I love Jason’s minimalist style. Each page has six panels and many panels are silent, often with not much going on in them. But every panel speaks volumes. The story has an effective structure, too, with an abrupt turning point in the middle that changes everything for the protagonist. It’s a story about childhood regret, with themes of guilt and loneliness seamlessly woven in. Y’know, things everyone can relate to!

This will not be the only Jason book I read.

[Graham Faught · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super fast read and yet it was something I thought and thought about for hours and even days after. You wouldn't think a graphic novel could bring to mind one's desire to do something more than just breeze through life and yet this one did for me. You'll finish it in no time and yet it sticks to the back of your mind. It definitely still has for me and for that I would suggest giving it a read through in hopes that it does the same for you.

[Tawfek · Rating 5 out of 5]

well this made me really sad but nonetheless it deserves 10 stars five isnt enuff :(

[César · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hacía tiempo que no leía a Jason. "Espera!" es su primer cómic, un notable debut en el que están presentes las señas de identidad que lo han convertido en un autor de culto. Personajes apagados, distancia emocional entre autor e historia, laconismo expresivo y, al tiempo, una extraordinaria capacidad para narrar con imágenes en un estilo marcado por el minimalismo y la condensación. Una economía afinada de recursos con los que crea una densa y emocionante historia.

El paso abrupto de la niñez a la adultez a raíz de un suceso traumático es el tema central de la obra, así como las consecuencias de dicho suceso y su dolorosa incidencia en la vida futura del protagonista. Una historia triste y depresiva como pocas, en la que late un pulso de verdad estremecedor. Resulta sorprendente la diferencia entre el tiempo invertido en su lectura y el poso que deja la misma.

[Tony Vacation · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jason's debut graphic novel. A short and bittersweet rumination on childhood and loss, and then the awfulness of growing old, having a shit job, and being forever alone. Add a peppering of visual tricks and a slight salting of (uncharacteristic)surreal storytelling, and you've got a pretty good first book.