Jason Loo is a Canadian

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and comics writer who has written and drawn for

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and independent comics. He won the Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic in 2020 alongside

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for his work on ''Afterlift'' and has been nominated for a

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, a Joe Shuster Award, and a Doug Wright Award.

Career

In 2014, Loo wrote, drew, and crowdfunded his own book, ''The Pitiful Human-Lizard'', about a Toronto-based superhero who struggles with his life and work as an office clerk. It was later published through

Chapterhouse Comics Chapterhouse Comics was a Canadian comics, comic book publishing company that publishes books featuring classic Canadian comics, Canadian comic book characters such as Captain Canuck and Northguard in a unified comic book universe. In 2020, Cha ...

and went on for 17 issues before ending in 2019. The comic was lauded and called "quintessentially, unapologetically Canadian." In 2019, Loo and Chip Zdarsky teamed up to create ''Afterlift'' for ComiXology Originals, about a rideshare into Hell. Loo and Zdarsky previously knew each other when Loo was a college intern at Zdarsky's studio, the Royal Academy of Illustration and Design. In 2021, a fan comic that Loo had done in 2017 starring Multiple Man caught the eye of Marvel editor

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and Loo was hired to do a backup comic about the Multiple Man in '' X-Corp'' #3. That same year, Loo and Zdarsky teamed up to do another ComiXology Original called ''The All-Nighter'' about a vampire who decides to become a superhero. In 2023, it was announced that he would be writing a new four-issue '' Sentry'' mini-series about the various characters who inherit the Sentry's powers after his death. The next year, he was announced as the writer for the one-shot '' Blood Hunt:

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'' and subsequent ''Werewolf by Night'' series, which would be a part of Marvel's more R-rated "Red Band" comics. It was also announced that Loo would write a four-issue '' Dazzler'' book for the X-Men: From the Ashes relaunch.

Personal life

Loo is lives and works in Toronto. He was born in

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, Ontario, grew up in

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, and went to

Sheridan College Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, formerly Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, is a public polytechnic institute partnered with private Canadian College of Technology and Trades operating campuses ...

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

* '' Cosmo the Spacedog Infinity Comic'' #1-6 (2023) (writing) * ''Crypt of Shadows'' vol. 5 #1, short story "Monster Games" (2024) (writing) * '' Daredevil'' vol. 7 #11, short story "Painful Lesson" (2023) (writing) * ''

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'' vol. 6 #35, short story "Some Family Time" (2021) (writing/art) * ''Extreme Venomverse'' #5, short story "Spider's Eclipse" (2023) (writing) * ''

Howard the Duck Howard the Duck is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Steve Gerber, based very loosely on his college friend Howard Tockman, and artist Val Mayerik. Howard the Duck firs ...

'' vol. 7 #1, "Waugh If... Howard the Duck Became an X-Men?" (2023) (writing) * ''Infinity Paws Infinity Comic'' #1-10 (2024) (writing) * '' Iron Fist 50th Anniversary Special'' #1, short story "Happy Birthday, Danny" (2024) (writing) * ''

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Annual'' vol. 4 #1 (2023) (writing) * '' Lucky the Pizza Dog Infinity Comic'' #1 (2021) (writing/art) * ''Marvel Meow and Pizza Dog Infinity Comic'' #1-4 (2023) (writing/art) * '' Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic'' #82-83 (2023) (writing) * ''Marvel's Voices: Spider-Verse'' #1, short story "Workin' It Out" (2023) (writing/art) * ''Mighty Marvel Holiday Special: Ghost Rider Infinity Comic'' #1 (2022) (writing) * '' Sentry'' vol. 4 #1-4 (2023–2024) (writing) * '' Spider-Boy'' vol. 2 #8 (2024) (art) * ''What Is... A Flerken Infinity Comic'' #1 (2023) (writing/art) *

: ** ''Werewolf by Night: Blood Hunt'' #1 (2024) (writing) ** ''Werewolf by Night'' #1-present (2024–present) (writing) *

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: ** '' X-Corp'' #3, short story "Multiple Sabotage" (2021) (writing/art) ** '' X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic'' #21, 27–28, 34, 41, 56–58, 92-95 (2022–2023) (writing/art) ** ''

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'' vol. 4 #30, short story "Karma" (2022) (art) ** '' Dazzler'' vol. 3 #1-4 (2024) (writing)

Other Comics

Chapterhouse Comics Chapterhouse Comics was a Canadian comics, comic book publishing company that publishes books featuring classic Canadian comics, Canadian comic book characters such as Captain Canuck and Northguard in a unified comic book universe. In 2020, Cha ...

* ''The Pitiful Human-Lizard'' #1-17 (2014–2019) (writing/art) * ''Chapterhouse Summer Special 2016'' (2016) (writing/art)

ComiXology Originals

* ''Afterlift'' #1-5 (2019), later reprinted by

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(art) * ''The All-Nighter'' #1-10 (2021–2024), later reprinted by Dark Horse (art)

IDW

* '' Star Wars Adventures Annual 2021'', short story "The Coin" (2021) (art) * '' Star Wars High Republic Adventures Annual 2021'', short story "No Stone Unturned" (2021) (art)

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* ''Stillwater: The Escape'' #1 (2022) (writing/art)

Other Comics

* ''Awol'd'' (2008) (self published) (writing/art) * ''Razorblades'' #2 (2020) (Tiny Onion) (art)

References

External links

Official site
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