Jason Overby is an American artist and critic associated with the art comicsBadman, Derik "Art Comics, Indie Comics"], madinkbeard.com, February 19, 2010. and abstract comics movements. His work has appeared in online"Car by Jason Overby", actionyes.org, March 22, 2011."Binaree by Jason Overby", gazebooks.com, July 16, 2010."'Slapstick' by Jason Overby", arthurmag.com, August 5, 2009. and print media."Western Mandala by Jason Overby", Lumpen, issue 116, Winter 2010. He is best known for his comic Jessica,Badman, Derik "Jessica by Jason Overby", madinkbeard.com, November 9, 2008.Randall, Bill "Analytic Drawing: Jason Overby", billrandall.net, December 18, 2008. 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.,Gaiman, Neil; Madden, Matt; Abel, Jessica (editors). The Best American Comics 2010. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. and his strip, Apophenia which appeared in Abstract Comics: the Anthology published by Fantagraphics Books.Molotiu, Andrei (editor). Abstract Comics: the anthology. Fantagraphics, 2009.Bilsborough, Michael "Silent Pictures" , ceblog.sva.edu, September 18, 2008.
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.Czap, Kevin "Relief", comixcube.com, April 13, 2011.
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External links Official Site 20 Questions with Cartoonists