Jason Overby
Encyclopedia
Jason Overby is an American
artist
and critic associated with the art comics and abstract comics
movements. His work has appeared in online and print media. He is best known for his comic Jessica, 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., and his strip, Apophenia
which appeared in Abstract Comics: the Anthology published by Fantagraphics Books
.
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 the meantime, through the efforts of Caroline Bren and Jesse McManus, he found a land that was serene, without cynicism, but not without effort and good faith. He will be missed and anticipated in equal measure, amen. He also has crazy skills at coffee construction which should not be doubted and is known as one of the Most Generous Men (M.G.M.) within the Portland Cartooning Elite, despite his reluctance to attend social functions due to the rigor of child-birthing. But he is loved, oh yes. If there is anything that should not be done within his presence, it is any degree of doubting when it comes to his prescience. He will implode you.
In 2011 he began serializing the webcomic 2101.'"
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artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and critic associated with the art comics and abstract comics
Abstract comics
Abstract comics are comics that combine concepts of visual abstraction with the traditional continuity of the comic strip. They can also be called abstract sequential art....
movements. His work has appeared in online and print media. He is best known for his comic Jessica, a fusion of art comics and autobiographical comics
Autobiographical comics
Autobiographical comics are autobiography in the form of comic books or comic strips. The form first became popular in the underground comics movement and has since become more widespread...
, his graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...
Exploding Head Man (an existential supervillain
Supervillain
A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the villain character type, commonly found in comic books, action movies and science fiction in various media.They are sometimes used as foils to superheroes and other fictional heroes...
story reminiscent of Gary Panter
Gary Panter
Gary Panter is an illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter's work is representative of the post-underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of Arcade: The Comics Revue and the initiation of RAW, one of the second generation in American underground comix...
) which was listed as a notable selection of the year in the 2010 edition of The Best American Comics., and his strip, Apophenia
Apophenia
Apophenia is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness", but it has come to...
which appeared in Abstract Comics: the Anthology published by Fantagraphics Books
Fantagraphics Books
Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint...
.
Co-mix, which he started with Blaise Larmee
Blaise Larmee
Blaise Larmee is an American cartoonist, critic, and publisher, best known for his graphic novella Young Lions.His work has appeared in online and print media....
in 2009 and closed in 2011, was a comics criticism blog that explored and collapsed distinctions between critic and creator. In the meantime, through the efforts of Caroline Bren and Jesse McManus, he found a land that was serene, without cynicism, but not without effort and good faith. He will be missed and anticipated in equal measure, amen. He also has crazy skills at coffee construction which should not be doubted and is known as one of the Most Generous Men (M.G.M.) within the Portland Cartooning Elite, despite his reluctance to attend social functions due to the rigor of child-birthing. But he is loved, oh yes. If there is anything that should not be done within his presence, it is any degree of doubting when it comes to his prescience. He will implode you.
In 2011 he began serializing the webcomic 2101.'"