The question that is asked by many readers of Jason’s novels and specifically this one, is what happens at the end? It is not easily identifiable wrapped up ending. He is forty years old and in a holding pattern and in a lot of ways part of him died with his friend. What came after is the rapid growth into a character that never really moved on afterwards. The protagonist’s “Hey wait…” was not heeded, and his friend died. Stop and pause before making your next choice. “Hey wait…” watch out for those open wires. “Hey wait…” Words that are so simple, but sometimes if they are not heeded, disaster can strike. Over the course of the story, it makes it difficult to differentiate between the different characters. Same goes for the anthropomorphic animals, another one of his archetypes. This simplicity in drawing and layout is great for a few pages, but over the course of the novel, it can be confusing and dulling. Much of the time his simplicity is successful and can be read as poignant instead of contrived. In a typical Scandinavian style, Jason’s work can be both morose and hopeful in the span of a single page. He pieces together complexity through simple forms which have become his most well-known style. Jason(single name only) is the nom de plume of one of Norway’s most famous comic authors. It will rip your heart out and leave you feeling melancholic and reminiscing about your personal actions long past. This is a tale of childhood friendship, loss, guilt, and the affects of a single choice over the course of a lifetime. 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.” 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. 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. Edition of International Material, for I Killed Adolf Hitlerįrom the Publisher, “One of Europe’s most exciting young cartoonists makes his American debut. Edition of International Material, for The Left Bank Gang

2005: Brage Prize, Open Class for La meg vise deg noe….2002: Harvey Award, Best New Talent, for Hey, Wait….2000: Urhunden Prize for the best translated graphic novel, for Vänta lite….2000: Sproing Award, for Mjau Mjau 10: Si meg en ting.1995: Sproing Award, for Lomma full av regn.Published October 17th, 2001 by Fantagraphics (first published January 1st, 2000).

I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason