Jason Overby

{{Short description|American artist and art critic}}

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Jason Overby is an American artist and critic associated with the art comicsBadman, Derik [http://madinkbeard.com/archives/art-comics-indie-comics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513140013/http://madinkbeard.com/archives/art-comics-indie-comics |date=May 13, 2011 }} "Art Comics, Indie Comics"], madinkbeard.com, February 19, 2010. and abstract comics movements. His work has appeared in online[http://www.actionyes.org/issue15/overby/overby1.html "Car by Jason Overby"], actionyes.org, March 22, 2011.[http://gazebooks.com/jason-overby01.html "Binaree by Jason Overby"], gazebooks.com, July 16, 2010.[http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/08/05/slapstick-by-jason-overby/ "'Slapstick' by Jason Overby"], arthurmag.com, August 5, 2009. and print media.[http://www.lumpen.com/Lumpen116_FINAL1.pdf "Western Mandala by Jason Overby"], Lumpen, issue 116, Winter 2010. He is best known for his comic Jessica,Badman, Derik [http://madinkbeard.com/archives/jessica-by-jason-overby "Jessica by Jason Overby"], madinkbeard.com, November 9, 2008.Randall, Bill [http://billrandall.net/2008/analytic-drawing-jason-overby/ "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 [http://ceblog.sva.edu/tag/jason-overby/ "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 [http://comixcube.com/2011/04/13/relief/ "Relief"], comixcube.com, April 13, 2011.