32 Facts About Jhonen Vasquez

Jhonen C Vasquez is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and director.

Jhonen Vasquez is best known for creating the Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comic book series and the Nickelodeon animated series Invader Zim.

Jhonen C Vasquez was born in San Jose, California, on September 1,1974.

Jhonen Vasquez grew up in East San Jose and attended Mt.

Jhonen Vasquez cited The Plague Dogs and Flight of Dragons as two of the most personally influential animated films he saw in childhood, while at the same time in live action, he found himself most influenced by Ridley Scott's Alien.

Jhonen Vasquez read his older brother's superhero comics as a child, but first became interested in exploring the medium through the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman.

Jhonen Vasquez earned no prizes; however, on the back of a preliminary drawing for the contest, he drew his first sketch of who would later become the title character of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and the student newspaper published a number of his comic strips featuring Johnny.

Jhonen Vasquez met Roman Dirge and Rosearik Rikki Simons at Alternative Press Expo in 1995; Dirge later became a writer on Vasquez's series Invader Zim, while Simons joined the show's coloring team and voiced Zim's erratic robot sidekick GIR.

In September 1996, Jhonen Vasquez announced in his introductory text to the sixth issue of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac that the comic book had been successful enough for him to quit his day job and focus on his art.

In 1995, Slave Labor Graphics began publishing a series of Johnny comics after Jhonen Vasquez submitted samples of his artwork to them.

Jhonen Vasquez stated that he did the book's art while he was in high school to discourage classmates from asking him to draw for them.

In 1997, Jhonen Vasquez gave Squee, a supporting character from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, his own four-issue series.

Jhonen Vasquez said at the 2007 New York Comic Con that the original Fillerbunny comics would be done in a single night and he would rush through and do whatever he could in a small amount of time.

At Comic-Con 2005, Jhonen Vasquez mentioned that his next comic was a love story.

In 2009, Jhonen Vasquez collaborated with other alternative artists in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales, issue 2 of 3, with a story about MODOK.

In 2012, DC Comics announced that Jhonen Vasquez joined the writing team for their digital comic Beyond the Fringe, based on the Fox TV series Fringe.

In May 2014, Jhonen Vasquez announced on his Tumblr page that he would be re-releasing his previous Fillerbunny comics into a new collection and additionally releasing his first new comic book in ten years.

At Nickelodeon, Jhonen Vasquez created the animated television series Invader Zim, which aired on the network and then later on Nicktoons.

Jhonen Vasquez provided the voices for Zim's computer, Old Kid, Minimoose, and various characters including himself as a background character.

Jhonen Vasquez later returned to Nickelodeon in 2016 to write Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, a TV movie based on Invader Zim.

Jhonen Vasquez did character designs for the Disney XD show Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, as well as wrote for an episode of the online series Bravest Warriors.

However, on September 30,2016, Jhonen Vasquez announced on his official blog that Very Important House was ultimately not picked up for a full series.

Jhonen Vasquez collaborated with Crab Scrambly to produce the storybook Everything Can Be Beaten, published by Slave Labor in 2002.

Jhonen Vasquez, credited as Chancre Scolex, wrote the story and Crab Scrambly illustrated it.

Jhonen Vasquez did the entire artwork for the deluxe edition of the Mindless Self Indulgence album If as well as the digital single "Mastermind".

Jhonen Vasquez directed the music videos for Mindless Self Indulgence's "Shut Me Up" and The Left Rights' "White".

Jhonen Vasquez made the cover art for the album Zero Day by MC Frontalot and indicated that he shows his artwork in galleries from time to time.

Jhonen Vasquez did an art rendition of BioShock 2 called "The Sisters".

Jhonen Vasquez was quoted saying the following about the rendition:.

Jhonen Vasquez worked on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles short called Don Vs Raph, where Donatello and Raphael compete to see who is better, but the two always end up tying.

Jhonen Vasquez's characters are often highly geometric and thin with heavy black outlines, almost to the point of resembling stick figures.

Jhonen Vasquez's storylines tend to follow a basic dark comedy formula.