Jason Shiga

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Jason Shiga (born 1976) is an American cartoonist who incorporates puzzles, mysteries and unconventional narrative techniques into his work.^[1]

Early life

Jason Shiga is from Oakland, California.^[2][3] His father, Seiji Shiga, was an animator who worked on the 1964 Rankin-Bass production Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Jason Shiga was a pure mathematics major at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he graduated in 1998.^[2]

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

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

• 2019 Gran Guinigi winner: Best Series, Demon.
• 2017
  Eisner Comic Industry Award winner: Best Graphic Album-Reprint, Demon^[4]
• 2014
  Ignatz Award
  winner: Outstanding Series, Demon.
• 2007 Stumptown Comics Award winner: Best Writing, Bookhunter.
• 2003
  Ignatz Award
  winner: Outstanding Story, Fleep.
• 2003
  Eisner Comic Industry Award
  winner: Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.
• 1999
  Xeric Award
  winner: Double Happiness.

Nominated

• 2018 Angouleme Festival Sélection Officielle, Demon.
• 2018 Angouleme Festival Prix du Public, Demon.
• 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee: Graphic Novel/Comics, Demon.
• 2016
  Ignatz Award
  nominee: Outstanding Series, Demon.
• 2014
  Ignatz Award
  nominee: Outstanding Webcomic, Demon.
• 2012 Harvey Award nominee: Best Letterer, Best Inker, Best Writer, Best Artist, Empire State.
• 2011 Harvey Award nominee: Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers, Meanwhile.
• 2007 Eisner Comic Industry Award nominee: Best Graphic Album, Bookhunter.
• 2007
  Ignatz Award
  nominee: Outstanding Graphic Novel, Bookhunter.
• 2004 Eisner Comic Industry Award nominee: Best Single Issue or One-Shot, Fleep.

Bibliography

Books

• Double Happiness, 2000 Shigabooks
• Fleep, 2002 Sparkplug Comics
• Bookhunter, 2007 Sparkplug Comics (French translation, éditions Cambourakis, 2008)
• Meanwhile, 2010 Amulet Books (French translation as Vanille ou chocolat, éditions Cambourakis, 2012)
• Empire State - A Love Story (or Not), 2011 Abrams
• Demon, Volume 1, 2016 First Second
• Demon, Volume 2, 2017 First Second
• Demon, Volume 3, 2017 First Second
• Demon, Volume 4, 2017 First Second
• Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan, 2022 Amulet Books (French translation as Leviathan, éditions Cambourakis, 2022), ISBN 978-1-4197-5779-2

Self-published minicomics

• Phillip's Head, 1997
• The Adventures of Doorknob Bob, 1997
• Mortimer Mouse, 1997
• The Family Circus (parody), 1997
• The Last Supper, 1997
• Grave of the Crickets, 1998
• The Bum's Rush, 1998
• The Date, 1999
• Meanwhile..., 2001
• Hello World, 2003
• Bus Stop, 2004
• Knock Knock, 2006

References