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Meow, Baby! | 
 enlarge | Author: Jason
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 338089
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 1560976950
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781560976950
ASIN: 1560976950
Publication Date: February 1, 2006
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Product Description
A collection of short stories from Norway's greatest cartoonist.
After seven books that have ranged from tragedy (Hey, Wait…) to drama (Sshhhh!) to thriller melodrama (The Iron Wagon, Why Are You Doing This?), Jason unleashes his inner Scandinavian goofball with this big collection of hilarious shorter pieces. God, the Devil, mummies, vampires, zombies, werewolves, reanimated skeletons, space invaders, Death, cavemen, Godzilla and Elvis populate these most often wordless blackout gags, side by side with Jason's usual Little-Orphan-Annie-eyed, rabbit-and-bird-head protagonists-a "lighter side" of one of the best cartoonists of the new millennium.
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 Versatile anthropomorphic fun August 2, 2006
Tom Knapp (Lancaster, PA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The twisted mind of Scandinavian writer and artist Jason is difficult to fathom. My first exposure to his work was the haunting "Hey, Wait...," a tragic story of a single moment that changed everything. Next was "Why Are You Doing This," in which a pivotal moment in one person's life had disastrous results.
Bear in mind that Jason's characters are mostly anthropomorphic animals that, in another setting, would be cute and comical. In these books, however, they are just average people caught during a dark turn of the wheel.
"Meow, Baby!" evinces Jason's more light-hearted and comical frames. The book collects a series of short vignettes -- ranging from a few panels to a few pages -- in which a variety of characters (skeletons, zombies, mummies and vampires, Van Helsing, Elvis, aliens, cavemen, Godzilla, the Terminator and more -- all, of course, drawn in cuddly anthropomorphic style) live out their lives.
This book doesn't induce belly-busting laughter. It evokes smiles, chuckles and the occasional wince -- not just for the humor, but often for the sheer unexpectedness of the directions Jason takes his characters. After the wrenching sadness of his earlier books, "Meow, Baby!" is a refreshing demonstration of Jason's versatility. I already knew he had depth; it's nice to know he has breadth as well.
by Tom Knapp, Rambles.NET editor
 Jason Comics March 19, 2007
Jason Oak Ritchie
I'll have to say that this artist has a way with the graphic art form that I feel few others have demontrated thus far in the genre. The sincerity conveyed through simplicity in order to portray a wonderful series of elements that characterise the human condition is refreshing...not to mention that zombies, mummies and monsters in general NEED to be in our lives!
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