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Birkeland, a native Norwegian, spent a year on a remote Finnish mountain tracking the magnetic fields of the Earth and their relationship to the auroras, the so-called northern lights. At the end of the nineteenth century, the setting of Jago’s account, the northern lights were still a mystery—heralded by some as messages from the gods and by others as signals from the dead. Jago manages to successfully transport the reader to Birkeland’s world, where adventurers still dreamed not of faraway planets, stars and moons, but of uncharted mountains, desolate frozen...
...wait...," can be an attention grabber, a warning, and a curse. It becomes all three of these over the course of the singularly-named Jason's new comix novella, "Hey, Wait..." (Fantagraphics Books; 64pp; $9.95), beginning with the come-on of the title. Originally in Norwegian, Jason's work has only just begun to appear in English. "Hey, Wait..." marks his first solo book in the States. A story about tragedy and regret told in a sweetly simple way, it stands out as one of the most beautifully sad comix in recent memory...
...pair of panties over his head to rob a post office, but the drunken Norwegian foiled his brilliant plan by writing his demand note on a piece of paper that had his wife’s name on it. Oslo police captured him in two days...
...ZEALAND A Refuge at Last As the Australian Parliament passed a package of measures designed to stem the flow of asylum seekers, neighboring New Zealand received 140 Afghan refugees. The Afghans, mainly women and children, were among the 433 rescued by the Norwegian freighter Tampa more than a month...
...devised a plan to send some 460 asylum seekers to other countries. New Zealand agreed to accept 150 of the migrants, while Australia will foot the bill for the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru to take the rest temporarily. The refugees had been in watery limbo ever since a Norwegian cargo ship, the Tampa, rescued them from a foundering wooden ferry off the Indonesian coast. They demanded that the skipper take them to the Australian territory of Christmas Island or to "any Western country." But Australia refused permission to land and sent troops aboard to ensure that...