Upside Down

By Jason. Published by Fantagraphics. 

Hardcover, 256 pages, B&W, 2022. 

In this absolutely bonkers comics collection, Norwegian cartoonist Jason follows his most oddball impulses, presenting to readers an intergalactic assortment of his weirdest, wildest short stories yet.

A dinner date devolves into a Dadaist farce. Death decides his victim's fate over a high-stakes game of chess. Kafka is ensnared in a confounding bureaucracy of his own imagination. Spock beams down to 1920s Paris to live a double life as an avant-garde painter. Hitchcockian thrillers, literary adaptations, and homages to classic EC comics abound. Dinosaurs! David Bowie! Vampires! Elvis! Welcome to the cosmic gumbo of Upside Dawn.

"Jason continues to be one of the best cartoonists working anywhere." — Publishers Weekly

"Any new work from Norwegian cartoonist Jason is worthy of a comics fan's full attention." — The A.V. Club