Bjørn Ousland

    Jason

    Tor Ærlig

    Trond Ivar
    Hansen

    Ronny
    Haugeland

    Sven Tveit &
    Jarle Grinde

    Roy Soebstad

    Jens K Styve

    Rune Borvik

    Jason

 






Read this untitled comic from Meow Meow#5.

Jason was born in 1965 in the northwestern part of Norway, but has lived in Oslo for the last ten years. He is one of the leading Norwegian comicbook creators. His album "Lomma full av regn" ("Pocket full of rain") was in the magasine TEGN chosen to the best Norwegian comic ever, and it also won the "Sproing-award" (Norwegian Comics Associations award for best comic). In TEGN he was picked as the second best Norwegian comic book creator ever as well. In 1997 he won a major comic-strip competition arranged by one of the biggest Norwegian newspapers, Dagbladet. Jason was picked among some 250 Norwegian artists.

The last years he has been working as an illustrator, and has also published seven issues of his own comic book, "Mjau Mjau" ("Meow Meow"). The seventh is fresh from February 2000. The two first issues are collections of short stories, all of them in a characteristic poetic and melancholy style. Issue three and four includes his longest story so far "Vent litt..." (Wait a minute..."). This story is a rather dark biographic story about the main character's childhood and growth in to an adult.

In issues five, six and seven Jason explores a pantomime style with no dialogue. These stories are also lighter and more humoristic than his previous.

Even though his style is distinct, he covers a wide range of themes from autobiographic to surrealistic stories. He can be very dark, but also ironic and funny. Jason is in constant development as an artist, and he is maybe at his best when he explore entirely new fields in comic stories; when he finds the moods and impressions you didn't think you could find in a comic.

In the latest issues he has been working in a much clearer graphic style than earlier, with lot of open spaces. Most of his recent stories include animals as their main characters, but he has certainly not turned into an ordinary funny animal creator. He has kept his unique moody style.

Want to know more about Jason? He was also presented as Artist of the Month for February 99.


 
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