Jason Lutes was born on December 7,1967 and is an American comics creator.
12 Facts About Jason Lutes
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Jason Lutes's work is mainly historical fiction, but he works in traditional fiction.
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Jason Lutes is best-known for his Berlin series, which he wrote and drew over 22 years.
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Jason Lutes has written a handful of other graphic novels, as well as many short pieces for anthologies and compilations.
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Jason Lutes now teaches comics at the Center for Cartoon Studies.
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Jason Lutes went to college at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1991.
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Jason Lutes 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.
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In 1993 Jason Lutes began serializing a strip for The Stranger, which was collected in 1996 in the critically acclaimed graphic novel Jar of Fools.
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Jason Lutes subsequently moved to Asheville, North Carolina, in October 2002; this move forms the subject of his autobiographical Rules to Live By, collected in AutobioGraphix by Dark Horse Comics.
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In 2007, Hyperion published the graphic novel Houdini: The Handcuff King, written by Jason Lutes and illustrated by Nick Bertozzi.
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Jason Lutes has two sons, Clem was born on 2006 and and Max, with his partner Becka Warren.
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Jason Lutes has done some game work, such as unit portraits for the open-source video game Battle for Wesnoth, a map for Dominions 3: The Awakening, and website illustration for City of Heroes.