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Jason Lutes

Born

in New Jersey, The United States

December 07, 1967

Genre

Graphic Novels, Comics

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Jason Lutes was born in New Jersey in 1967 and grew up reading American superhero and western comics until a trip to France at age nine introduced him to the world of "bandes dessinées." In the late 1970s he discovered Heavy Metal magazine and the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, both of which proved major influences on his creative development.

Lutes graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration in 1991. While at RISD, among the many new comics he encountered were Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine and Chester Brown's Yummy Fur, which together inspired him to start publishing minicomics under the imprint "Penny Dreadful."

Upon graduation in 1991, he moved to Seattle, where he spent several years working ...more

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Arise!

Over a year after my last post! Yikes. I’m going to try to update at least once a week and see how it goes.

This first one is just to plug some illos I did last month for a Paul Krugman piece in the NYT Sunday Magazine. It was a great call to get, and has led to some new contacts, but it did consume all two weeks of my summer vacation.

Click on the above draft image to see the article on

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Average rating: 4.01 · 18,671 ratings · 1,621 reviews · 66 distinct works • Similar authors

	Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones 3.94 avg rating — 6,249 ratings — published 2000 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berlin 4.45 avg rating — 3,274 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berlin, Vol. 2: City of Smoke 4.12 avg rating — 2,957 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes, Sherman Alexie (Introduction) 3.80 avg rating — 1,760 ratings — published 1994 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes (Writer), Nick Bertozzi (Illustrator) 3.47 avg rating — 1,452 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berlin, Vol. 3: City of Light 4.24 avg rating — 1,023 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perilous Wilds by Jason Lutes, Jeremy Strandberg (Contributor), Keny Widjaja (Illustrator) 4.32 avg rating — 50 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berlin Free Comic Book Day 2018 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berlin # 5 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berlin #1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who’s the better writer?”
― Jason Lutes

tags: ad, advertisement, advertising, brand, cigar, cigars, critic, criticism, journal, play, playwright, review, sales, shoot, shoots, suicide, theater, writer, writers, writers-on-writing

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