Jason Overby

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Jason Overby
Overby at the 2010 Stumptown Comics Fest
BornMarch 4, 1975
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
NationalityAmerican
Known forComics, drawing, collage
Notable workJessica, Exploding Head Man

Jason Overby (born March 4, 1975) is an American artist and critic associated with the art comics[1] and abstract comics movements. His work has appeared in online[2][3][4] and print media.[5] He is best known for his comic Jessica,[6][7] a fusion of art comics and autobiographical comics, his graphic novel Exploding Head Man (an existential supervillain story reminiscent of Gary Panter) which was listed as a notable selection of the year in the 2010 edition of The Best American Comics.,[8] and his strip, Apophenia which appeared in Abstract Comics: the Anthology published by Fantagraphics Books.[9][10]

Co-mix, which he started with Blaise Larmee in 2009 and closed in 2011, was a comics criticism blog that explored and collapsed distinctions between critic and creator.

In 2011 he began serializing the webcomic 2101.'"[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Badman, Derik [1] Archived May 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine "Art Comics, Indie Comics"], madinkbeard.com, February 19, 2010.
  2. ^ "Car by Jason Overby", actionyes.org, March 22, 2011.
  3. ^ "Binaree by Jason Overby", gazebooks.com, July 16, 2010.
  4. ^ "'Slapstick' by Jason Overby", arthurmag.com, August 5, 2009.
  5. ^ "Western Mandala by Jason Overby", Lumpen, issue 116, Winter 2010.
  6. ^ Badman, Derik "Jessica by Jason Overby", madinkbeard.com, November 9, 2008.
  7. ^ Randall, Bill "Analytic Drawing: Jason Overby", billrandall.net, December 18, 2008.
  8. ^ Gaiman, Neil; Madden, Matt; Abel, Jessica (editors). The Best American Comics 2010. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
  9. ^ Molotiu, Andrei (editor). Abstract Comics: the anthology. Fantagraphics, 2009.
  10. ^ Bilsborough, Michael "Silent Pictures", ceblog.sva.edu, September 18, 2008.
  11. ^ Czap, Kevin "Relief", comixcube.com, April 13, 2011.

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