Strange Tales #1

Strange Tales #1 Marvel Comics (w) Various (a) Various FC 48 pgs w/ ads $4.99 US / Higher in Canada After Marvel had declared bankruptcy back in the late ’90s – they started to restructure the company and they also started experimenting with more than just the usual superhero comic. Peter Milligan and Michael Allred [...]

Hey, Wait…

For me, age 10 was one of the hardest years of my life, and the remainder of childhood didn’t get much easier. It was fun, but not easy. We forget that kids can be dark, nasty, manipulative creatures. Refuge from that and the world of shitty parents, crazy puberty trips and general confusion comes from one’s best friend. Heather and I strung together our own world then stayed there until grade nine. Then something happened, high school probably, and we lost our connection. Hey, Wait…, by Norwegian cartoonist Jason, is one of the most moving novels, graphic or otherwise, I’ve read in recent memory. It deals with the bond between kids, and what happens when we lose that bond. And although childhood probably isn’t as great as we remember it, its loss is mourned, and it’s this sense of mourning that Jason brilliantly captures.

Low Moon

The latest offering from the brilliant Norwegian cartoonist Jason is this hardcover book that contains his Low Moon story that was serialized in the New York Times Sunday Magazine “Funny Pages” section. It also contains four other short stories, each as entertaining as the last.