2002 Harvey Award Winner, Best New Talent: this superbly evocative story by the award-winning Norwegian cartoonist is a tale of childhood friendship and tragedy, and the terrible lingering aftereffects thereof.
One of Europe's most exciting young cartoonists makes his American debut. 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. 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. 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. Black-and-white comics throughoutBook Description
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“[I]t stands out as one of the most beautifully sad comix in recent memory.” (Andrew Arnold - Time )
“Now this is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Don't walk, run to your nearest bookstore and check it out.” (Rob Neyer - ESPN.com )
“I was just as excited and devastated as the first time I read the poems of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Jason's work is poetry. Beautiful and frightening. Redemptive and hopeless. He is the Kafka and Keats of the comic world.” (Sherman Alexie )
“[A] touching ode to childhood but it's a very disturbing one as well.” (Arnold T. Blumberg - Cinescape Comics )
“What starts out as a series of cute and fun moments of the protagonist’s childhood turns into one of the most memorable comic book moments I can think of…. This should be on everyone’s to-read list.” (Cosmic Treadmill )
“Will insinuate itself into your consciousness and make you appreciate much more the remaining moments of your life.” (Alan David Doane - Comics Book Galaxy )
“A remarkable first graphic novel that's hauntingly evocative.” (S. A. Bennett - Comics Buyers Guide )
“Depressing, technically accomplished, and full of little touches and images that linger in the memory—yes, it's a typical Fantagraphics book.” (Phil Mateer - Comics Buyers Guide )
“If you read this book, you'll be thinking about it for weeks.” (Comics International )
“I still think of Hey, Wait as [Jason's] best work, the most nuanced, the most beguiling. Even rereading it before writing this, there are so many things I feel like I only half-understand, images that hint at something I can never grasp all the way.... If you haven’t read Hey, Wait yet, mm-mm, you’ve got some good reading ahead of you.” (Dustin Harbin - The HeroesOnline Blog )
“Careful—think twice before you read this book. It's is very, very beautiful, but it will utterly break your heart.” (Dylan Horrocks, author of Hicksville )
“Now this is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Don't walk, run to your nearest bookstore and check it out.” (Rob Neyer - ESPN.com )
“I was just as excited and devastated as the first time I read the poems of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Jason's work is poetry. Beautiful and frightening. Redemptive and hopeless. He is the Kafka and Keats of the comic world.” (Sherman Alexie )
“[A] touching ode to childhood but it's a very disturbing one as well.” (Arnold T. Blumberg - Cinescape Comics )
“What starts out as a series of cute and fun moments of the protagonist’s childhood turns into one of the most memorable comic book moments I can think of…. This should be on everyone’s to-read list.” (Cosmic Treadmill )
“Will insinuate itself into your consciousness and make you appreciate much more the remaining moments of your life.” (Alan David Doane - Comics Book Galaxy )
“A remarkable first graphic novel that's hauntingly evocative.” (S. A. Bennett - Comics Buyers Guide )
“Depressing, technically accomplished, and full of little touches and images that linger in the memory—yes, it's a typical Fantagraphics book.” (Phil Mateer - Comics Buyers Guide )
“If you read this book, you'll be thinking about it for weeks.” (Comics International )
“I still think of Hey, Wait as [Jason's] best work, the most nuanced, the most beguiling. Even rereading it before writing this, there are so many things I feel like I only half-understand, images that hint at something I can never grasp all the way.... If you haven’t read Hey, Wait yet, mm-mm, you’ve got some good reading ahead of you.” (Dustin Harbin - The HeroesOnline Blog )
“Careful—think twice before you read this book. It's is very, very beautiful, but it will utterly break your heart.” (Dylan Horrocks, author of Hicksville )
About the Author
Jason hails from Oslo, Norway, but currently resides in the south of France. The Harvey and Eisner Award-winner continues to create new books at a breakneck pace—his books include Werewolves of Montpellier; Low Moon; Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories; Hey, Wait...; Sshhhh!; The Iron Wagon; What I Did (collecting the previous three volumes); I Killed Adolf Hitler; The Last Musketeer; The Left Bank Gang; Why Are You Doing This?; The Living and the Dead; Meow, Baby!; You Can't Get There from Here; Tell Me Something; and Almost Silent (collecting the previous four volumes) and (with Fabien Vehlmann) Isle of 100,000 Graves.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Sad, funny, gripping tale in two parts,
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I bought this book a few months ago, and have read it 5 times since. "I have absorbed its contents", would be more fitting, as the bulk of story in this book is told more through the artists complex while seemingly simplistic visuals. It's the story of two childhood friends, a tragic event that separates them, and finally how one of the friends grows up and how the events of his childhood still affect him. It's an amazing story, and I'd highly recommend it for people who like to think when they read comics. I find Jason's art to have many layers. There is so much that is being said in almost every panel. You have to look at it and think about it for a bit, though, or you'll miss what Jason is representing in these panels and throughout the book. A great book. :)
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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The title says it all... you'll see.,
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This book is incredible. A masterpiece in graphic literature. The art is superb and is perfect for this story which I found hauntingly familiar. The perfectly drawn facial expressions bring the characters alive. The story will grip you and stay with you for eternity. The editorial review that says, "this story is beautiful but will utterly break your heart" is SO right on. Everyone needs this. I wish I knew if this artist had any other graphic novels out? I'd like to thank the first Amazon reviewer as his (or her) review convinced me to buy it. Now it's your turn. I assure you that it will be one of the best ten bucks you ever spent.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent.,
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Jason, Hey, Wait... (Fantagraphics, 2001)
Graphic novel artist Jason made a huge splash with this slim volume when it first came out a few years back. It's pretty easy to see why; with a minimum of dialogue and a ot of abstraction, Jason paints a deeply affecting pastiche. The story concerns two childhood friends who decide to start a fan club. While they're planning out the initiation, something goes horribly wrong, and the rest of the book deals with one friend's lifelong reaction to a life-changing event. Hey, Wait... is unflinching. If you haven't yet come to the world of graphic novels, this is a great place to start; even the toughest critics of graphic novels, I should think, would be hard-pressed to deny the emotional power of this little tale (and it certainly puts to bed the idea that all comics are for kids). **** ½
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