The Norwegian cartoonist known as Jason has a new book to come out this September.
You can read the full description below, but in simple terms, it is essentially a collection of three short comic stories, tied together by one absurd thread running. This new book marks Jason’s first new work since Upside Dawn in 2022. This is another collection that has been nominated for the Ignuts Award.
And today, The Beat is honored to have 11 pages of excerpts from a new book courtesy of publisher Fantagraphics. Following the official text for death at Trieste, you can find the following pages: In this snippet, the characters work early in the morning, spilling coffee, and Rene Magritte is associated with a nervous breakdown.
If not, the book is poised to feature the same dry humor, minimalist cartoons and niche cultural references that made Jason one of our true essential cartoonists. You can find both the explanations and excerpts below. Death at Trieste is scheduled to be released on September 16th… Enjoy!
The title story “Death in Trieste” sets the scene in Berlin in the 1920s. This is a bustling cultural hotspot in the shadow of upcoming Nazism. Here, many unlikely characters, including time travelling David Bowie, Rasputin, Nosferatu, and Marlene Dietrich, are all connected by a group of Dadaists who play the art of rationality through insanity. In “The Magritte Case,” a pair of wise detectives must crack cases that include the forgery of art, the masked man, and the mysterious loss of failure. Finally, in “Sweet Dreams,” Jason rethinks the 1980s new wave artist as an X-Men-esque superhero. This supergroup easily dispatches supernatural threats such as living mummies, animated armor, and rampaging golems, but they soon face the biggest challenge as giant met stones strain towards the Earth.
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