An illustration of a small house on a yellow background. The building is unfolding like a cardboard box, with its walls and roof peeling away to reveal the interior rooms.

Perfect three-panel stories from apparent genius Jasper Rietman

Words: Liv Siddall
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Date: 18 June 2012; Work
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“Some radioactive fish, a dinosaur burger and a loaf of house, please.” Certainly. Jasper Rietman where have you been all my life?! Totally comfortable with inventing whole stories and then explaining them succinctly in just three panels of a comic strip, often with no text, Jasper is a humble hero of the comic world. Look at the strip with the grizzly blue fish swimming through a black sea, watch him crawl out of the murky water and destroy all human civilisation in three panels, Amazing. Move on to one of Jasper’s other stories which will no doubt be completely far-removed with regards to the storyline, but nonetheless absolutely genius.

A three-panel illustration. The first shows a crumbling black stone structure with pipes; the second shows two people in hard hats speaking in different, illegible languages; the third shows a completed, towering circular building. — Above
Jasper Rietman

An illustration in three panels. The top panel shows a lone factory and a distant hilltop town, both emitting plumes of smoke into a beige sky. The bottom-left panel looks through a window at a factory interior where blue bottles move along a conveyor belt. The final panel is a close-up of a blue bottle with a label showing a person coughing inside a prohibited sign. — Above
Jasper Rietman

A three-panel illustration. In the first, two people in red uniforms stand by a large cannon aimed at a red sun. In the second, the cannon fires a yellow beam that hits the sun. The final panel is black, showing only a thin orange ring. — Above
Jasper Rietman

A three-panel comic strip. In the first two panels, a person in a red tunic and black hat watches another person tied to a wall. The final panel shows two police officers in blue uniforms holding guns. — Above
Jasper Rietman

A three-panel illustration of a person opening a heavy vault door. In the final panel, the door swings open to reveal a bright, yellow-green landscape. — Above
Jasper Rietman

A three-panel illustration of a large, bright blue fish with pink outlines. It swims through a black void, crawls onto a sandy shore, and then looms over a cluster of beige buildings. — Above
Jasper Rietman

A three-panel comic strip. In the first, a red and yellow car drives under a sign that reads “DINO WORLD”. The second shows two people in the car as a dinosaur looks through the window. In the third, the two people eat burgers in a cafe with a menu listing “STEGOSTEAK+FRIES” and “T-REX T-BONESTEAK”. — Above
Jasper Rietman

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www.jasperrietman.com
www.flickr.com/jasperrrrietman

About the Author

Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

Perfect three-panel stories from apparent genius Jasper Rietman

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