Jason Thompson (Author)

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Jason Thompson at Daigacon 2009

Jason Thompson (born 1974 in San Francisco , California ) is an American editor , journalist and cartoonist .

Life

As a journalist and author, he is primarily concerned with mangas , writing for the magazines Animerica , Otaku USA and The Comics Journal , among others . For the book Manga - The Complete Guide , which was created together with other authors until 2007 , he was nominated for the Eisner Award in 2008. On Anime News Network , he presents the House of 1000 Manga column , in which he introduces lesser-known series. As an editor he worked for the publishing house Viz Media and was responsible for the American edition of Shōnen Jump , which appeared from 2002 to 2012.

As a comic book author, he initially created a few series in the 1990s that were self-published. A webcomic followed in 2001 with The Stiff . In 2010 and 2011 he published the two-volume comic Kings of RPGs through Del Rey . Also in 2011 he brought out a crowdfunded comic book.

bibliography

Non-fiction
  • Manga - The Complete Guide (2007, editor and co-author)
comics
  • The Stiff (webcomic, since 2001)
  • Kings of RPGs (2 parts, 2010/2011)
  • The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Other Stories (self-published via crowdfunding, 2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2008 Eisner Award Nominees announced! April 13, 2008, accessed December 26, 2014 .
  2. ↑ The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and Other Stories. Kickstarter, September 12, 2011, accessed December 26, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Thompson, Jason
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American editor, journalist and comic book artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California