Jason Latour

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    David Jason Latour (born August 29, 1977) is an American comic-book and comic-strip artist and writer known for his work for Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics on titles such as Wolverine, Winter Soldier, Southern Bastards and Spider-Gwen, co-creating Spider-Woman / Gwen Stacy (Earth-65) in the latter, later adapted to the Spider-Verse film franchise.

    Early life

    Jason Latour was born in

    Charlotte, NC and graduated from West Mecklenburg High School. He received a Bachelor's degree in 1999 from East Carolina University where he had minored in art and served as the head illustrator and cartoonist for The East Carolinian, the student newspaper.[citation needed
    ]

    Career

    Latour sketching at Heroes Con 2010.

    While Latour was a student at East Carolina University, he began his first foray into the comics field with his creator-owned humor comic strip 4 Seats Left.

    Most recently, Latour served a Production Consultant on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Both films featured Spider-Woman, the motion-picture name of the character Latour co-created Spider-Gwen (see below).

    In late 2004, Latour and writer

    ISBN 1-4012-3062-8), which was published in 2011, and has since worked as an artist on comic-book titles such as the 2010 Marvel Comics miniseries Daredevil: Black & White,[1] Wolverine (2010)[2] and the critically acclaimed crime series Scalped (Vertigo 2010).[3] In 2011, his creator-owned long-form writing debut Loose Ends (with artist Chris Brunner) was published by Image Comics in conjunction with independent publisher 12-Gauge Comics.[citation needed
    ]

    Spider-Gwen

    Further information: Spider-Gwen

    In September 2014, Latour co-created Spider-Gwen, an alternate-universe version of Gwen Stacy that debuted in Edge of Spider-Verse #2. The character's popularity quickly warranted an ongoing Spider-Gwen comic-book series published by Marvel Comics that began in February 2015. The series explored a universe where Gwen Stacy was bitten by a radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker, leading her to a career as the Spider-Woman of her world. The first volume ended after the fifth issue with the character carrying over into the second volume of "Spider-Verse" as part of the "Secret Wars" story line. Latour wrapped up his Spider-Gwen run in 2019 to focus on creator-owned material. On Latour's retirement in August 2020, Marvel Comics stated they had no current projects planned with him.[4]

    Southern Bastards

    Further information: Southern Bastards

    Also in 2014, Latour and writer

    Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series
    . Latour primarily illustrated the series, but also wrote two issues of the title to date.

    In August 2020, the series paused after Latour took a leave of absence in light of misconduct allegations,[4] before Latour returned to publishing creator-owned work in January 2022.[5], including in Image 30th Anniversary Anthology #12 (April 2023).

    Bibliography

    As artist

    As writer

    Notes

    1. ^ Phillips, Dan. "Daredevil: Black and White #1 The Man of Fear gets the Black and White treatment." IGN. August 4, 2010
    2. ^ Melrose, Kevin. "Chain Reactions: Wolverine #1". Comic Book Resources. September 4, 2010
    3. ^ Hargro, Carlton. "Comic Review: Scalped No. 43" Archived 2011-06-16 at the Wayback Machine. Creative Loafing Charlotte. November 30, 2010
    4. ^ a b https://www.cbr.com/report-marvel-comics-no-future-plans-jason-latour
    5. ^ https://substack.com/profile/3434815-jason-latour

    References

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