#jake olson

[photo-dujenoir]

Jake Olson

[vertigoartgore]

2001's Thor Vol.2 #38 (LGY : #540) by artist Barry Windsor-Smith. Source

[dabiconcordia]

Consolation

How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How much better to cruise these local, familiar streets, fully grasping the meaning of every roadsign and billboard and all the sudden hand gestures of my compatriots.

There are no abbeys here, no crumbling frescoes or famous domes and there is no need to memorize a succession of kings or tour the dripping corners of a dungeon. No need to stand around a sarcophagus, see Napoleon’s little bed on Elba, or view the bones of a saint under glass. How much better to command the simple precinct of home than be dwarfed by pillar, arch, and basilica. Why hide my head in phrase books and wrinkled maps? Why feed scenery into a hungry, one-eyed camera eager to eat the world one monument at a time? Instead of slouching in a café ignorant of the word for ice, I will head down to the coffee shop and the waitress known as Dot. I will slide into the flow of the morning paper, all language barriers down, rivers of idiom running freely, eggs over easy on the way.

And after breakfast, I will not have to find someone willing to photograph me with my arm around the owner. I will not puzzle over the bill or record in a journal what I had to eat and how the sun came in the window. It is enough to climb back into the car

as if it were the great car of English itself and sounding my loud vernacular horn, speed off down a road that will never lead to Rome, not even Bologna. by Billy Collins

[henk-heijmans]

Aging storm, 2013 - by Jake Olson, American

[evilhorse]

Refusing an award from Cap is unamerican!

[i-r-readcomics]

Thor

Volume: 2 #1

Variant Cover: John Romita, Jr.

[lospaziobianco]

Interviste - "E un giorno uccidemmo Superman": intervista a Dan Jurgens

Alla Leipziger Buchmesse abbiamo incontrato Dan Jurgens, autore statunitense famoso per il suo impegno su Superman e per la leggendaria saga "La Morte di Superman". Abbiamo parlato della sua carriera, delle sue esperienze in Marvel e DC e dei suoi prossimi lavori.

[marvelnyc]

Thor #3 (September 1998). Dan Jurgens (Writer), John Romita Jr. (Penciler), Klaus Janson (Inker), Richard Starkings’ Comicraft/WA (Words & Visuals), Gregory Wright (Colors), Tom Breevort (Editor), Bob Harras (Editor-In-Chief). Thor may be surprised to learn that his new human alter ego, paramedic Jake Olson, is engaged, but he might also be shocked that he’s due to get married to someone who thinks a New Yorker is going to be pumped about “special deep-dish pizza” in a city with a million amazing not-deep-dish pizza places.