Jason Thompson
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Date of Birth: October 13, 1974 Hobbies: Reading, tabletop RPGs, walking, mask-making Favorite Life Forms: Plants, reptiles, fish Book Credits: Manga: The Complete Guide Comic Credits: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1997-1999), The Penny Dreadful Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area (2003, contributor), The Stiff (2003-ongoing), Hyperborea (2004), Sparky in Love (2006, contributor) Manga Editing Credits: Fullmetal Alchemist, Uzumaki, Gyo, Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Bastard!!, Hana-Kimi, The Drifting Classroom, and many others Favorite Manga: Riyoko Ikeda, Kazuo Umezu, Rumiko Takahashi, Fumi Yoshinaga, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/49531435 I was born in San Francisco. My earliest comics were rip-offs of DOCTOR WHO, newspaper strips and science fiction and horror movies. In college while studying Creative Writing, I discovered both anime/manga and American small-press comics. In 1996 I was hired as an editor at VIZ Media, where I edited numerous manga, including the first several issues of the American edition of SHONEN JUMP magazine, and contributed to magazines such as Pulp and Animerica. In my spare time I self-published several comics, including a 5-issue comic adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, and later contributed to the animated film adaptation by Guerilla Productions. In 2003 I began my still-running story webcomic The Stiff. In 2006 I left VIZ in order to work on Manga: The Complete Guide, the first encyclopedia of manga published in English. A full list of all my self-published comics is on this page. |
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