Jason Lutes

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Jason Lutes
Xeric Award
, 1993

Jason Lutes (born December 7, 1967)

Berlin series, which he wrote and drew over 22 years. He has also written a handful of other graphic novels, as well as many short pieces for anthologies and compilations. He now teaches comics at the Center for Cartoon Studies
.

Biography

Lutes was born in New Jersey, but his family soon relocated to Missoula, Montana. In his early years, Lutes liked superhero comics, but a trip to France exposed him to European comics like The Adventures of Tintin and Asterix, which he says greatly affected his style of drawing.[2]

Lutes went to college at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1991. He moved to Seattle after graduation, where he found work for the alternative comics publisher Fantagraphics, and eventually became art director of the alternative weekly The Stranger.[3]

During this period, Lutes began writing and self-publishing his own comic work with

Berlin, an ongoing 22-chapter story set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. When Berlin's original publisher Black Eye Productions closed in 1998, Drawn & Quarterly
took over the series.

Lutes subsequently moved to Asheville, North Carolina, in October 2002;[4][5] this move forms the subject of his autobiographical Rules to Live By, collected in AutobioGraphix by Dark Horse Comics.[6]

In 2007,

Hyperion published the graphic novel Houdini: The Handcuff King, written by Lutes and illustrated by Nick Bertozzi
.

Starting in the spring of 2008, he became part of the faculty of the Center for Cartoon Studies; he is now an adjunct professor there.[7]

Personal life

Lutes has two sons,[7] Clem (born 2006) and Max, with his partner Becka Warren.[8]

Bibliography

Lutes has published work in a variety of forms.[9]

Series

Children's series

Graphic novels

Short work

Illustrations

Troubled by the Fire, by Laura Veirs

Occasional illustrations:[11]

Unpublished work

Unpublished work includes:[14]

  • 1-page biography of J. R. R. Tolkien for The Stranger (1997)
  • "Which Witch is Witch?", 3-page story for "Sam Shade" in Nickelodeon Magazine, written by Paul Karasik (2003)
  • short Charles Atlas parody for The Stranger (2004)

Other work

Lutes has done some game work,

Battle for Wesnoth (2006), a map for Dominions 3: The Awakening (2006), and website illustration for City of Heroes
(2005).

References

  1. ^ "Jason Lutes" at Comic Creator
  2. ^ Jason Lutes profile at Read Yourself RAW
  3. ^ Jason Lutes biography at his publisher, Drawn & Quarterly
  4. ^ Hulk vs. the Universe, by Jason Lutes
  5. ^ Lutes at Forefront of Graphic Literature, Asheville, NC Citizen-Times, Feb. 21 2003
  6. ^ a b Morrow, Julina. "15 Questions," Archived 2013-06-03 at the Wayback Machine Sequential Highway (Nov. 8, 2012).
  7. ^ Lutes, Jason. "Spring in Vermont," Official blog (Apr. 22, 2008).
  8. ^ Coyote vs. Wolf (Lutes's blog), Bibliography
  9. ^ Coyote vs. Wolf (Lutes's blog), Illustration
  10. ^ Arise!, October 16, 2009 by Jason Lutes
  11. ^ How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, September 2, 2009
  12. ^ Coyote vs. Wolf (Lutes's blog), Comics Work
  13. ^ Coyote vs. Wolf (Lutes's blog), Game Work

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