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Jason Patterson.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Jason Patterson: American co-creator (with Dan Abdo) of Blue, Barry & Pancakes — short, gentle action-comedy early graphic novels for ages 5–9.

Jason Patterson is an American author-illustrator who, with longtime creative partner Dan Abdo, co-creates the Blue, Barry & Pancakes early-graphic-novel series, short, joke-paced comics about three improbably good-natured friends having small chaotic adventures. The series is pitched at the earliest end of graphic-novel reading (ages 5–9), with very accessible panels, clean cartoon art and gentle action-comedy in the Narwhal and Jelly / Bumble and Snug tradition. Patterson and Abdo also work in animation and comics outside children's publishing. A reliable early-comics author for emerging readers.