Nationality American Name Jason Shiga | Area(s) Cartoonist | |
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Awards Xeric Award, 1999Eisner Award, 2004Ignatz Award, 2004Stumptown Comics Award, 2007 Education University of California, Berkeley Books Fleep, Bookhunter, Empire State: A Love Story (or Not) | ||
Notable works "Meanwhile", "Fleep" | ||
Cag 95 puzzling out your comic s destiny with jason shiga
Jason Shiga is an Asian American cartoonist who incorporates puzzles, mysteries and unconventional narrative techniques into his work.
Contents
- Cag 95 puzzling out your comic s destiny with jason shiga
- Jason shiga ape 2009
- Early life
- Career
- Techniques and materials
- Won
- Nominated
- References
Jason shiga ape 2009
Early life
Jason Shiga is from Oakland, California. His father, Seiji Shiga, was an animator who worked on the 1964 Rankin-Bass production Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Shiga was a pure mathematics major at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he graduated in 1998.
Career
Shiga is credited as the "Maze Specialist" for Issue #18 (Winter 2005/2006) of the literary journal McSweeney's Quarterly, which features a solved maze on the front cover and a (slightly different) unsolved maze on the back. The title page of each story in the journal is headed by a maze segment labeled with numbers leading to the first pages of other stories.
Shiga has also drawn and written several comics and illustrated features for Nickelodeon Magazine, some of which feature his original creations, and some starring Nickelodeon characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants and the Fairly OddParents.
Shiga makes a cameo appearance in the Derek Kirk Kim comic, Ungrateful Appreciation as a Rubik's Cube-solving nerd.
Techniques and materials
According to the rear credits page of Empire State: A Love Story, Shiga, who was inspired by an actual Greyhound Bus trip from Oakland to New York to create that story, pencilled it with a yellow No. 2 pencil on copy paper. He then inked it with a lightbox and a 222 size Winsor & Newton brush, and lettered it with a Micron 08 felt-tip pen. The colors were applied digitally by John Pham.