Le perroquet de Frida Kahlo

by Jason

De Magritte à Kahlo, de Laughton à Santo en passant par Nostramus et Bardot, Jason nous promène en toute liberté, de nouvelles en nouvelles, filant les métaphores et les références littéraires, pulps et cinéma ; un véritable jeu de pistes dans l'imaginaire de l'auteur. Dix histoires, où l'on croise pêle-mêle un trompettiste, deux égarés qui ne se sont pas remis de leur précédente aventure, un catcheur masqué, tous les seconds rôles de la Hammer et, bien évidemment, un perroquet. Au gré des pages, on plonge dans les grands yeux blancs de ces longues silhouettes au profil animal, et à chaque fois, on est surpris par l'intensité des émotions qui s'y reflètent. Elles nous emportent et nous font chavirer. Jason continue d'être l'un des plus grands conteurs actuels.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Short Stories, Graphic Novels Comics, Fantasy, Comic Book

206 pages, Hardcover

First published May 27, 2015

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

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re-read 5/21:

Compared to other shorts collections from Jason, this isn’t necessarily better, but it is top-notch cartooning, and the coloring from Hubert makes for a crisper, cleaner look.

If You Steal: 5/5 A postmodern noir story where it is easy to get confused. A Comics story is told through the juxtaposition of images, and the “leaps” between images or panels here are admittedly sometimes great, but these gaps make for an interesting story. But as with most postmodernist work, the form is the point, the formal play.

Karma Chameleon: 4/5 A story of finding love in the event of a scientific expedition into the discovery of a 50-meter killer chameleon

Waiting for Bardot: 4/5 The basic point is in the pun, here, but it’s funny, okay? Jason’s not just a formal master, he’s a silly guy who references a bleak Beckett play and the love of a famous sixties French film actress. Oh, the two guys waiting express some ignorance about women as they wait, but that’s also funny, I think.

Lorena Vellasquez: 3/5 A wordless sci-fi/fantasy comic with aliens and zombies, and a simple rescue attempt of a damsel with a reversal in it, as the damsel ends up rescuing the guy.

New Face: ⅘ Again, a postmodern spin on a noir story of a guy who escapes prison and with the help of a woman who watched every day of his trial and thinks he is innocent, gets plastic surgery. But the written narrative differs drastically from the visuals. In the writing, he wants revenge on the plastic surgeon and kills him. The visuals tell a different story of the advent of love. Which story is true??!!
Moondance:⅗ If you know this Van Morrison album, this is a funny take on it through individual “song cover” artworks for key hits, the songs all seen as Horror (the mppon, howl, get it?). Just a quick aside.

Night of the Vampire Hunter:3/5 Vampire story, stakes, two kids as vampires, one with her heart hidden in her doll (?!)

Polly Wants a Cracker:5/5 Complex and silly tale of parrot-loving Frida Kahlo as contract killer who, in a rough patch, gets help from Polly.

The Thrill is Gone: 4/5 A simple story of Chet Baker and heroin.

Ask Not:5/5 I just read Stephen King’s 11/22/63 about the Kennedy assassination, an alt history. Here is another one, extending back to Stonehenge, involving Nostradamus, Abraham Lincoln, JFK’s Dad, where JFK outlives Marilyn Monroe.

Nothing:6/5 One of the best things Jason has done! Posits a woman with Alzheimers who is having her possessions taken from her by two crows, item by item. Deeply moving.

Original 2015 review: I am reading a few books right now and liking them all, but when this book came in, I dropped everything to read it, and read it through in one sitting. Jason is one of my all time favorite comics writers, and this is just out, yay! I read it again, a bit more slowly, and am glad to have it around to read again, as I often do with his books. Is this really awesome, in comparison to his other books? I think so, but I pretty much knew I would like this even more just because I had waited a while for one of his new books. And that fan thing. But I do think this work is "better" than some of his other work, so I'll get to that.

The hardcover version of this collection of new comics stories by Jason is gorgeous. It's also colored by Hubert, of Miss Don't Touch Me fame, so it has a brighter, crisper feel. The drawing is always A+, meticulous, visually interesting. Jason, born in Norway and now living in France, has a deadpan sense of humor and a love of movies and noir and a serious and playful interest in narrative. I know many writers do, but Jason experiments with comics narrative in interesting, postmodern ways. He uses, as always, anthropomorphic animals to tell his stories.

The peculiar and delightful Edward Gorey has made it clear in some places that he despises narrative (though he most often uses it, of course, in his dozens of books), but his despising leads to subverting narrative expectations sometimes, for the delight or frustration of his readers. Check out The Willowdale Handcar to read a non-narrative text by Gorey.

I don't think Jason despises narrative at all. I think he loves it, and in almost genre. So in this collection there are "literary" jokes such as "Waiting for Bardot," (don't you just love this?! It's a Beckett gag, reducing the dialogue between two guys to talking about women they are waiting for), there are all manner of monster stories, there are crime stories, some are sort of one-off gags, and some are actually deeply moving, but in most of them he uses comics juxtaposition of panels to force you to make connections between disparate things. I think this is a kind of playful and provocative subversion of narrative expectations. He's playfully non-linear, he's funny. He's way smart and insightful, too, about how comics make meaning.

Mostly this is Jason engaging his light and playful side, not taking himself too seriously, though. It's comics, dudes, it's supposed to be fun. And it is. Mashups, pastiches, jokes. Frida Kahlo as a hired killer. A story of Santo, the Mexican wrestling film star. A story of jazz legend Chet Baker. Night of the Vampire Hunter. Kennedy-Marilyn Monroe speculations. A non-linear heist story that includes images from Magritte. A big bug story based on 1950s black-and-white films. And a series of Van Morrison’s Moondance album song cover art posters. . . if Moondance were a horror comic! Some are silent. "Nothing" is about a grandmother with Alzheimer's.

All of it is great. If you decide to buy or get copies of Jason's work from your library, get multiple books so you can live in his work awhile. It's a good place to be. I expect many readers would give this 4 stars compared to other books by Jason, but screw it, I love it, five stars, so there.

[Marpapad · Rating 3 out of 5]

if you steal:4/5
karma chameleon:3/5
waiting for Bardot:2/5
Lorena Vellasquez:4/5
new face:2/5
moondance:2/5
night of the vampire hunter:3/5
Polly wants a cracker:3/5
the thrill is gone:2/5
ask not:3/5
nothing:3/5
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Average:2.8

[Sam Quixote · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jason, one of the finest cartoonists working today, is back with another collection of inspired stories featuring his familiar cast of animal-headed mopers, If You Steal.

I never knew I wanted to read a story about Frida Kahlo as a hitman until Polly Wants a Cracker but I loved it! Dark and thrilling, the title’s the only words spoken in the story giving it this arthouse/experimental vibe to it.

Karma Chameleon is a hilarious sci-fi b-movie-type short about a giant chameleon who’s abducting people in the desert - a bonkers professor and his daughter go to investigate. The weird visual of the chameleon, who pops up in the backgrounds unnoticed, is funny enough but the professor is inappropriately brilliant, repeatedly asking people about their masturbation habits!

Nothing is the most touching story, about an old lady with Alzheimer’s. Jason represents the disease as invisible eyeless vultures who cover up people’s faces and move things around to make it seem like she’s forgetting - utterly exceptional.

My favourite short was the insane rambling JFK conspiracy story starting in 2583 BC at Stonehenge and ending in an alternate future. Crazy and superb, Jason takes us through the centuries showing just enough in a single panel to get us to the next, often set years ahead - really masterful cartooning.

The ones mentioned above are the standout stories for me. There are six others included (along with one which is a series of amusing Jason-ified horror comics covers) which are good as well though not as great. The Thrill Is Gone is a short that felt like Jason going a little too abstract, undermining the story; Night of the Vampire Hunter was an unimpressive generic vampire hunting story; and Waiting for Bardot was just about the silly joke ending.

If You Steal isn’t my favourite Jason book but it’s still full of inventive stories from a remarkable artist whose comics show that he continues to grow and surprise his audience with each new volume. He’s truly a giant in the medium and so vital. This is an effortlessly compelling and stylish collection of comics that fans will need no encouragement to pick up and any comics fan who hasn’t read his work before will find to be a delightful introduction to this unique talent.

[Mir · Rating 4 out of 5]

At first I was interested but confused -- there is a man involved in a crime, he doesn't really want to be but has to, his wife/girlfriend gets beaten up, flash backs to museums and especially Magritte?

Then people are disappearing. A desert. I read on and realized that 1) this is a collection of short stories, not a continuous narrative, and each 2) is a homage to a certain type of film. The first is just a sort of film I haven't watched much myself. [cough] Probably French or something.

Anyway, it's overall very good! Even though the last story made me quite sad.

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can I say about Jason (J)? I have friends who love him and friends who hate him! To elicit such strong feelings (with no middle ground) tells you that something unique is being attempted by the artist. I am the first to admit that I don't understand all of J works; but there is something very interesting going on - like a car accident you can't help looking at!

[Ill D · Rating 2 out of 5]

The greatest problem (as much as a strength) with Jason's work is his minimalist approach. Since there is little in the way of detail nor eye candy, stories can (as they should be) read quickly. However this means, little is to be gained from any more thoughtful/careful approach let alone a (potential) re-reading. A solid story is the proverbial maker or breaker for Jason's work in all of his offerings.

This failing is the corroded cornerstone of this work of straw built upon a foundation of sand. Instead of a strong story, If You Steal is more of a compendium of (micro-) one shots. Featuring ten mini-comic book flavored novellas and a single chapter collection of faux-movie posters (collected under the title of Moondance) there is little to be said of cohesion in this sorry excuse for a comic book.

Paltry applications of tragedy and comedy strangely enmesh themselves with equally odd themes of conspiracy and mental illness among other ill begot ones. A further serving of fictional history involving a reduplication of Frida Khalo as a fabricated hit(wo)man makes this stew of weirdness even more unpalatable. If that ingredient wasn't bizarre enough, the penultimate story Ask Not is a horrid mashup of the Kennedy Assassination, 9/11, Reptilians and a plethora of other weird illustrated gunk.

If You Steal reduces, sadly enough, to a poorly produced hip-hop album in the visual form. In Hip-Hop, the job of the DJ is to produce cohesion through in-cohesion. By taking already established awesomeness (such as the hit track, Atomic Dog) and sewing it together with drums an assorted samples to breathe fire into the past, reduplicating the past in an accessible and enjoyable format for a modern audience. In contradistinction, If You Steal is an poorly applied mashup of awfulness. Since Jason is an integrated artist, fusing the illustrating and the writing all under one (personal) roof, all the blame falls squarely upon a single set of shoulders.

Two sorely disappointed thumbs down.

[Drew Canole · Rating 4 out of 5]

A mixed bag of stories. Its nice to see Jason trying so many new things. I'll definitely be re-reading this one soon. A couple of the stories were hard to follow. Definitely pick up if you're a fan of his work.


Update:
Finally got around to reading this book again. And damn... it's a lot better than I remember. It's certainly not a "mixed bag". There's not any weak stories here. Each one is unique and interesting in its own way. A couple of the stories had a strange Mignola influence with Hellboy like beat-em up action sequences.

If I have one complaint its that some of the stories with a larger cast of characters it can be difficult to keep track of who's who because Jason draws each 'dog' character very similarly.

I thought the book had a perfect blend of seriousness and absurdity. I probably disliked it at first, but I enjoy how he ended a few of the stories in silly ways.

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you read nothing else by Jason,
If you read nothing else in this book,
Read the last story, "Nothing".
Some metaphors are clever; some are powerful; the main visual metaphor in "Nothing" is both and it packs a helluva punch. It will only require a few minutes to read, even if you (appropriately) savor it and then go back.

Frankly, the first 2 stories baffled me with their bizarro concluding panels and had me wondering if i'd lost my taste for Jason's brand of comics. (i have revisited them and now ... not so bad)

Ah, but then "Lorena Vazquez" provided sweet and silly redemption, in the form of the endearing saga of luchador El Santo "rescuing" the title character.

And "New Face" peaked behind the mask of mental illness. And "Moondance" provided a 6-page smilefest: Van Morrison album covers envisioned as horror comix*.

I had to read this interview with Jason to appreciate "Night of the Vampire Hunter", which initially struck me as almost completely pointless.

Many people really liked the premise of "Polly Wants a Cracker", presumably because who wouldn't enjoy a story about Frida Kahlo, Assassin? I don't mind the setup or the conclusion but

The same interview helped me with "The Thrill Is Gone" because i don't know Chet Baker's music or his life story at all. Before reading the interview i'd inferred that his name on the back cover blurb must relate to that story so i should've searched the Interwebs for his name + the title to see if i could learn more that way. (This kind of "forced research" is one of the things i like about reading: it points you in directions you'd never have thought to travel. Maybe i won't much relate to a heroin-addicted musician, but to find out something about him enriches my experience of life a tiny bit if only to give me a conversation starter with a Baker fan.)

I've never reveled in conspiracy theories, which might be why i think Jason's reach exceeded his grasp in "Ask Not", a historic sprawl from Stonehenge to post-9/11. I'll need to pay closer attention or reread it multiple times or i'll have to do some "forced research" because i didn't get much more from it than a few tickles, most notably from the panel depicting a Jackie Kennedy phonecall.

Still, i love the look and will continue to seek out Jason's work.


*Anal retentive quibble about "Moondance"
Each comic has an issue number; the first five are 7, 11, 53, 13, & 23; the last is 8. I can't think of any significance to the first five being prime numbers but i still want the sixth to be prime also, e.g., No 2 (that way not all of them are odd).
It's a meaningless change request, intended only to appease the little minds of people who, like me, want foolish consistencies.

[Michael Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found the graphic novel to be equal parts interesting, entertaining, and confusing.

[Alli · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think there were a whole bunch of references I wasn't getting.
Art was great, story was hard to follow.

[Liam O'Leary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jason's weakest collection: too inconsistent to be as good as 'Almost Silent', clearly worse than 'Low Moon', and far from the brilliance of 'What I Did'.

In comparison to his individually published stories, this is about as good as 'Athos in America' and 'The Last Musketeer', but far worse than others like 'Why Are You Doing This', 'Hey Wait', and 'The Left Bank Gang'...

The general weakness is that many of these stories are jokes based on references to modern history and pop culture that are underdeveloped, which he clearly knows how to do well given how good 'I Killed Adolf Hitler' is.

Here's a run down:
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If You Steal - 4/5
Best, as with more work this could have been a good single issue story. Too complex to be so condensed!

Karma Chameleon - 4/5
One of the funniest Jason comics I can remember.

Waiting for Bardot - 2/5
Missing the tension between those waiting as in Waiting for Godot, and the joke was too hurried.

Lorena Valazquez - 3/5
Funny message, but did we need that much fighting?!

New Face - 3/5
This absolutely feels like a B-side of If You Steal, taking an alternative approach to unreliable narration. It fails to connect emotionally though.

Moondance - n/a
Covers for graphic novels, serves as an intermission.

Night of the Vampire Hunter - 2/5
Having the heart in a doll is probably a reference I didn't get, but other than that nothing to see here.

Polly Wants A Cracker - 3/5
Adding a monobrow and making the bird a parrot didn't make Polly Wants a Cracker a meaningful or obvious reference to Frida Kahlo. The story was good anyway!

The Thrill is Gone - 2/5
Implying that this Chet Baker song is about when he got beaten up for heroin is interesting, but making him play the trumpet after it when in reality he couldn't play the trumpet any more didn't make sense. The story made no sense without the reference.

Ask Not - 2/5
Making the assassination of JFK by time travelling lizard people may have been interesting had it not been so long and relying so much on readers knowing events and people.

Nothing - 4/5
Third best in the collection, a harrowing simulation of late stage dementia, definitely should have been used for a bigger story!
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[Stewart Tame · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a collection of shorter stories by Jason. The appeal of his work is difficult to articulate. He draws skinny anthropomorphic animal characters who all tend to react in a deadpan fashion. They seem to drift through stories at a dreamlike pace. Streets are rarely crowded, and stories usually take place at night. He enjoys playing with genre conventions, employing mystery, SF, adventure, and horror tropes to good effect. While there is much humor in his work, "funny" is not the first adjective that comes to mind; "surreal", maybe. Speaking of "surreal," the title story--a bit oblique even by Jason standards--seems to be an homage to Rene Magritte, rife as it is with images from various paintings. My favorite in this book was probably the Samuel Beckett parody, "Waiting For Bardot". While I enjoy any book by Jason, I think I like him better at greater length. Too many of the stories in this volume feel cramped, and are over before they've begun. It will still satisfy your Jason addiction, but will leave you hungry for more.

[Bogdan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I saw around a lot of books by this artist, Jason, but this is the first one to read. If I where to listen to some others opinion the long length books are way better than this.

Don`t get me wrong, some of the stories I did enjoyed, some I didn`t.

I generally love the anthropomorphic animal characters and I love the drawings made by Jason.

Only that some of the stories had some another dimension to the whole setting and you have to be really careful to get to the heart of the story or you have to know very good the factors involved in the historical event depicted there.

Jason enjoys a lot to use the parody, to laugh on certain subjects and events, to put his characters in sureal situations, and in the end the book left me a good impression.

Definitelly I will try further some of his bigger works.

[Scarlet Cameo · Rating 3 out of 5]

No nse que pensar. Todo es muy minimalista, a veces el texto no sigue las imagenes (es al propósito) y es algo que no funciona en todos los casos, y necesita algo de punch para llegar a transmitir.
Tal vez Jason no es mi estilo.

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[Rachyl · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really didn't get a couple of these, though I found a some to be mildly amusing and I did like the last story, "Nothing", especially.

[Nikola Novaković · Rating 5 out of 5]

The emotional impact that Jason can achieve in just ten pages or even in a single panel, often without any words, is beyond belief. Definitely recommended, just like everything else by this crazy Norwegian.

[Kyle · Rating 3 out of 5]

A graphic novel collection of several short stories, each one more sardonic than the last. If you are a fan of Jason, then you know what you’re getting into.

3/5

[Kyle Wright · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mishmash of brilliance and mediocrity, If You Steal contains some stories that left me completely confused, while others were among his best, particularly his last story, Nothing, which alone made this book worth owning and recalls the emotional impact I first felt reading the superb "Hey, Wait...". I really wish I liked this collection more, but a few of the stories were so random that I wasn't sure what was happening or what they were about. I know that Jason was experimenting a bit more with story structure in some of these, but I can't say that they worked for me. Besides the aforementioned Nothing, I also really enjoyed the stories Lorena Valazquez and Karma Chameleon.

[Przemysław Skoczyński · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kryminał, który musisz sobie sam poskładać ze strzępków, a dodatkowo wyraźne nawiązanie do sztuki Rene Magritte. Reinterpretacja "Czekając na Godota", w której bohaterowie czekają na Brigitte Bardot. Jednokadrowe interpretacje poszczególnych kawałków z "Moondance" - Vana Morrisona. Frida Kahlo w roli płatnej morderczyni. Skrótowa historia Cheta Bakera. Alternatywna wersja opowieści o Kennedym, sięgająca wstecz aż to czasów rytuałów w Stonehenge. Do tego absolutna perełka pt. "Nothing" - rzecz o chorobie Alzheimera - jedno z najlepszych opowiadań Jasona. To oczywiście nie wszystko, doskonały zbiór

[Janina · Rating 3 out of 5]

My Norwegian anthropomorphic cartoonist strikes again.

With 11 stories in all there is always a possibility that this book's quality may not be consistent throughout. Some of the stories are amusingly weird and a few left me scratching my head a little. The Ask Not story tells of a prophesized section of US history. As I'm only familiar with only the important facts and not with everything that transpired, this one I put under the "didn't give a f*ck" category.

His art, however, remains one of his strongest points.

[Berna Labourdette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Soy una gran fan del trabajo de Jason. Todos sus cómics hasta ahora resultan ser una clase de cómo manejar los silencios en el cómic, usar saltos temporales como si nada, hacer expresivas situaciones donde los personajes tienen los mismos gestos (o se parecen mucho) y lograr que situaciones absurdas usando personajes reales (en este caso Chet Baker o el Santo) sean emotivas.

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Algunos de los mejores relatos de Jason, sin lugar a duda.

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of the worst Jason collections in my opinion. It's still good, but it has a lot more stories that are surreal or have niche references I don't understand. There's some good stuff, though! The penultimate story, Ask Not, is a great riff on the JFK assassination with weird cults and conspiracy theories and some dark humour that ends up being heartwarming by the end. And the final story, Nothing, is one of my favourite Jason stories I've read, where Alzheimer's is represented as these vulture men stealing objects from an old woman's room and with them stealing her memory of the objects and what they mean to her. It's incredible and uses the medium in cool new ways to visualize the disease.

The most interesting part of this collection is the page turn. Most of the stories centre around the juxtaposition of panels on two pages, and how each page is a new twist in the story. The mechanics of the page turn aren't something unique to this collection, of course the page turn is an important tool and foundational aspect of comics. But this more than any other Jason collection revolves around the weird scene changes, or the flip illustrating a pun or punchline.

[Devin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a mixed bag. While reading the majority of it I felt disappointed. The first half has stories I didn’t enjoy. The last two stories are my favorite.

Ask Not starts in Stonehenge showing an evil group, then continues to time jump to the Kennedy assassination, first moon landing, 9/11, etc. this was a very interesting take on the conspiracies.

Nothing is about an elderly woman with alzheimer's. Very short, but shows her perspective on aging and losing grip on reality.

I’m conflicted on this book. The majority of it I didn’t like, however there are some gems within.

Recommended for Jason fans.

For non Jason fans I’d start with Almost Silent, Hey, Wait, I Killed Adolf Hitler, instead for a solid baseline into exploring this creator’s work.

[trestitia ⵊⵊⵊ deamorski · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall it was ok. More like 2.5 stars.

Stories or pictures includes Magritte, Godot, Reptilians, Nostradamus, Castro, Kennedy and Monroe... I couldn't realize the hitman was Frida Kahlo but this story reminded me Nirvana's song (so at the end I couldn't understand tf point). (There are other people and elements I'm not familiar with.) This is what I liked most about the book. The idea of telling in your own POV of pop culture, conspiracy theories is good, but still something is missing, stories was hard to fathom. They are too short to judge, maybe, but this shortness is the reason of not making sense.

[Jake Nap · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another short story collection, this time featuring a ton of stories about 20 pages or shorter. A real good mix of Jason’s comedy, abstract and serious stories. Solid collection.

[Chet · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Jason book before bed keeps one right in the head.

[Komuniststar · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ca god bila poanta, prošla je pored mene bez da sam je zapazio. Bez toga, uz jasonov minimalistički crtež ne ostaje puno.

[aLejandRø · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ultimo de los Hardcover editados por Fantagrphics sobre Jason, esta vez presentando 11 historias cortas.
Conan, Drácula, Chet Baker, Kennedy, Nostradamus, Lincoln y Frida Kahlo entre otros protagonizan estos relatos donde como siempre son constantes las referencias a la cultura pop, cine, arte y literatura.
“Lorena Velásquez” es muy divertida y “Nothing” me resulto estremecedora pero sin dudas “Ask not” me parece lo mejor del libro, una especie de historia conspirativa mundial alternativa desde el 2583 AC hasta 2003 DC, brillante, vale por el resto.

[مصطفي سليمان]

جاسون الغريب
حقيقي والله ما عارف أنا برجع اقرأ ليه تاني؟
واحد من أغرب كاتبي القصص المصورة علي الأطلاق متقدرش تخمن اي شئ ولا تتوقع اي شئ ولا تقدر تقول اه دا كان قصده كذا مفيش الكلام دا كل بانل مفاجاة وتقعد تفكر ايه اللي قريته دا؟
لكن النتيجة النهائية بتبقي كدا فالأخر
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

مجموعة قصص قصيرة غير مترابطة ولكن بتلاقي نفسك عامل تقرأ لسبب ما حقيقي والله مش قادر احدد ليه بعمل ف نفسي كدا
وكل مرة أقول آخر مرة اقرأ ليه الاقي نفسي ارجع تاني
دي مرض دا ولا ايه بقي؟