Лучшие книги Джейсона

ЧТО, ЕСЛИ БЫ мы жили в мире, где «наёмный убийца» — это законная и обычная профессия, как доктор или адвокат? ЧТО, ЕСЛИ БЫ учёный нанял такого убийцу на самое потрясающее задание в его карьере… отправиться назад во времени и убить Адольфа Гитлера до того, как он стал злым диктатором? А ЧТО, ЕСЛИ БЫ Гитлеру удалось пережить покушение, проникнуть в машину времени и попасть в XXI век… оставив будущего убийцу одного на 70 лет? Если вы думаете, что знаете ответы на эти вопросы… то ошибаетесь. И вы обязательно должны прочитать «Я убил Адольфа Гитлера», шедевр с серьёзной миной от Джейсона.

Джейсон (Йон Арне Сетерёй) - норвежский автор комиксов. Уже много лет он живёт во Франции и пишет на французском языке. Его произведения неоднократно получали различные премии, в том числе норвежскую литературную премию Браге и американскую премию Айснера в номинации "Лучший зарубежный комикс".
В 2005 году Джейсону исполнилось 50 лет и он отправился в путешествие по паломническому маршруту длиной 800 километров, который ведёт к испанскому городу Сантьяго-де-Компостела. Каждый год его посещают тысячи людей - как христиан, так и неверующих. В течение 32 дней Джейсон шагает по дорогам и тропам Северной Испании, пытаясь преодолеть склонность к бесконечному самоанализу и начать общаться с другими паломниками… И, конечно, на пути его ждут мозоли, клопы и храп в приютах.

The acclaimed graphic novelist Jason returns with his most eagerly awaited book yet, thanks to the inclusion of the title story, the world’s first (and likely last) chess western, originally serialized in 2008 in the New York Times Sunday Magazine “Funny Pages” section.

This 216-page hardcover book features five yarns—all brand new with the exception of the aforementioned “Low Moon,” which is collected into book form for the first time.

The new stories lead off with “Emily Says Hello,” a typically deadpan Jason tale of murder, revenge and sexual domination. Then, the wordless “” tells two tales at once: one about a skinny guy trying to steal enough money to save his ill mother, and the other about a fat guy murderously trying to woo his true love. The reason we follow these two parallel stories becomes obvious only on the very last page, in Jason’s inimitable genre-mashing style.

“Early Film Noir” can best be described as The Postman Always Rings Twice meets Groundhog Day. But starring cavemen. And finally, “You Are Here” features alien kidnappings, space travel, and the pain and confusion of family ties, culminating in an enigmatic finale that rivals Jason’s greatest twists.

Funny, poignant, and wry, Low Moon shows one of the world’s most acclaimed graphic novelists at the absolute peak of his powers.

After a couple of downright chatty full-color books (Why Are You Doing This? and The Left Bank Gang) the Norwegian cartoonist Jason returns, for his ninth Fantagraphics graphic novel, to his two-tone mute roots with The Living and the Dead, a George A. Romero-esque zombie comedy that he intends to be the middle installment of his "horror trilogy" begun with the Frankenstein monster love triangle of You Can't Get There From Here. Jason's elegant deadpan style somehow manages to make the gruesome gore and splatter effects almost... charming — and yes, it is a sweet love story at heart. If you read only one book in which a zombie devours a baby this year (even Romero never quite summoned up the nerve for that), read this one!

In his first English publication, the award-winning Norwegian cartoonist Jason offers this superbly evocative graphic novella, which 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 utilises anthropomorphic stylisations to reach deeper, more general truths, and to create elegantly minimalist panels whose emotional depth-charge comes as an even greater shock. An engaging debut. Illustrated in b/w throughout.

A full-color existential thriller from the creator of Hey, Wait... Imagine a long-forgotten, never-produced Alfred Hitchcock "wrong man" thriller screenplay discovered, adapted and filmed by a modern minimalist like Jim Jarmusch and

Exactly three quarters of a century ago, Agatha Christie stunned the mystery-novel world with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, an Hercule Poirot novel whose final twist was greeted as either a brilliant trick or an appalling cheat. (More recent films and novels such as The Usual Suspects, Angel Heart, and Fight Club have used variations, but none has bettered the original.) As it happens, a Norwegian mystery writer who signed his work Stein Riverton beat Dame Agatha Christie to the punch by about 20 years, using exactly the same trick in his 1908 novel The Iron Wagon. An evocative murder mystery set in the Norwegian countryside, it, like all good murder mysteries, is a stew of passion, buried past crimes, revelations, and sharply defined characters who remain ambiguous to the very end. This novel has never been translated into English. Now, using a striking two-color drawing style and re-casting the story with his iconic animal characters from his previous graphic novel Sshhhh!, the acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist Jason has adapted The Iron Wagon into an original graphic novel that will appeal not only to fans of his work but also to mystery fans who will finally have a chance to experience Riverton's clever story. Surprisingly, this turn-of-the-century mystery thriller dovetails neatly with the concerns and obsessions of Jason's other comics (including the landmark Hey, Wait..., called the second best comic of 2001 by Time.com), and becomes a case of two wildly disparate craftsmen separated by a century merging their sensibilities for a unique work.

Jason returns with a full-length, full-colour graphic novella - his first since his 2008 Eisner-Award winning The Last Musketeer. Sven, a semi-aimless Scandinavian artist, who has ended up in Montpellier, enjoys noctural raids in other people's homes - disguised as a werewolf. But he hasn't taken into account the existence of real Montpellier-based werewolves who do not take kindly to this new pretender. So while Sven wiles away his time, little does he realise that a genuine threat to his life and, for that matter, his humanity.

1920s Paris: Birthplace of the graphic novel?! F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel.

Le Chemin de Saint-Jacques est une ancienne route de pèlerinage de 800 km en direction de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle. Des milliers de personnes la parcourent chaque année, aussi bien chrétiens que non-croyants. Jason a eu cinquante ans l'année dernière et il a décidé de la parcourir durant trente-deux jours. Le livre oscille entre introspection et tentatives timides pour parler aux autres. L'humour scandinave fait mouche.