Jayson: A New Collection - Softcover

Krell, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965632318 ISBN 13: 9780965632317

Publisher: Ignite Entertainment, 1997

Synopsis

Funny slices of gay life. This collection follows Jayson's rise from the "Philadelphia Gay News" to "Gay Comix," "Meatmen," and beyond. Contains all the stories that inspired the off-Broadway musical.

About this title

About the Author

Jeff Krell created the groundbreaking comic strip "Jayson," which debuted in the "Philadelphia Gay News" in 1983. By 1985 "Jayson" had achieved national prominence in "Gay Comix," where the strip was named Most Popular Feature. "Jayson" has since become a staple in Leyland Publications' "Meatmen" series of gay comics anthologies, now comprising more than twenty volumes. "Jayson" has also appeared in New American Library's "Gay Comics" anthology, in "Strip AIDS USA," and in syndication. A complete retrospective of Krell's "Jayson" cartoons entitled "Jayson: A New Collection" is in bookstores now.

In 1995 Krell began collaborating with singer/songwriters Ron Romanovsky and Paul Phillips on a "Jayson" stage musical. Two wildly successful readings held at The Actors' Playhouse in New York City paved the way for "Jayson"'s off-Broadway debut on July 10, 1998 at The 45th Street Theatre, which the venerable "New York Times" praised for its "tart, keenly observed humor."

Krell is the founder of Ignite! Entertainment, a company dedicated to developing gay-positive entertainment for mainstream consumption. Ignite! is the producer of the "Jayson" musical and the publisher of "Jayson: A New Collection." Ignite! recently acquired the right to translate and publish English versions of five works by famed German gay cartoonist Ralf Knig; the first, "Maybe...Maybe Not," the basis for Germany's highest grossing movie ever, was published in early 1998, with Krell providing the translation. The sequel, "Maybe...Maybe Not Again!," followed in 1999.

From the Back Cover

Since 1982, Jayson Callowhill has been searching for happiness in the contemporary gay ghetto. Along the way he's met a card-carrying fag-hag named Arena Stage, a cross-dressing pornographer named Robyn Ricketts, and a succession of men who've broken his heart-but not his spirit. This new collection follows Jayson's rise from six-panel featurette in the "Philadelphia Gay News" to national prominence in "Gay Comix," "Meatmen," and beyond. Here you'll find all the stories that inspired the sensational new Jayson musical-and then some! Like Superhero Jayson...Spaceman Jayson...even Straight-boy Jayson! Plus never-before-seen "lost" episodes from Arena's spinoff strip! The cartoon once dismissed as "retrograde" is now the hippest strip in town. Could it be that the world has finally caught up with Jayson?

Edition details

• Publisher: Ignite Entertainment
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965632318
• ISBN 13: 9780965632317
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176