Jason Pearson is an American comic book writer/artist, known for his work on books such as Legion of Super-Heroes, The Dragon: Blood & Guts, Global Frequency, and his own creator-owned series, Body Bags.
Pearson is also one of the original members of the Atlanta, Georgia-based Gaijin Studios, and has participated in several Gaijin Studios-related projects.
Career
Pearson debuted in comics with a back-up story in Legion of Super-Heroes #22 in 1991, and Pearson described series writer Keith Giffen one of his mentors.
In 1992, Gaijin Studios were in talks with Image Comics to do an 11-issue anthology series entitled Ground Zero, featuring the work of the current studio members. The series was to have debuted Pearson's Body Bags, but Image ultimately passed on the series. Pearson continued developing the concept of Body Bags, and it ultimately saw print as a four issue mini-series as the debut title for the Blanc Noir line of titles produced by Gaijin Studios for Dark Horse Comics.
In 1998, Pearson began work on a sequel to Body Bags. Intended as a six issue mini-series, Pearson had begun illustrating it when he was struck for an illness that left him unable to work for several months. When he returned to work, he found himself unhappy with the work he had done so far and opted to focus on other work for the time being. He did several short stories for America's Best Comics and Wildstorm. His first full issue after Body Bags was Global Frequency #11, which itself was delayed numerous months before release.
In 2004, Wildstorm announced and solicited a four issue mini-series written and drawn by Pearson called Redbird, but the series was delayed and ultimately cancelled before it saw print. In an interview for Newsarama prior to the cancellation, Pearson said that Redbird was intended to be a trilogy of mini-series for the character.
In 2005, 12 Gauge Comics reprinted the original Body Bags four issue mini-series in a collected edition. Later, they released the first new Body Bags material in years, Body Bags: 3 The Hard Way. In addition to publishing Body Bags through 12 Gauge, he is also on staff as the Director of Development.
Later in 2008, the Body Bags: One Shot special was released, with 48 pages of all-new material. In 2009, he drew the Joker's Asylum: Penguin one-shot for DC Comics.
Bibliography
Interior comic work includes:
- Celestial Mechanics: The Adventures of Widget Wilhelmina Jones #3: "You've Opened Heaven's Portal" (with Kurt Wilcken, Innovation, 1991)
- Hero Alliance (Innovation):
- "Past Perfect" (with Mike Buckley, in Quarterly #1, 1991)
- "Night Shift" (with Robert Ingersoll, in #16, 1991)
- "Untitled" (with David Campiti, in #17, 1991)
- Starman #35: "Back to the Fuchsia!" (with Peter David and Keith Giffen, DC Comics, 1991)
- Maze Agency #22: "Magic & Monsters--and Murder" (with Mike W. Barr, Innovation, 1991)
- Justice League Quarterly #4: "The Sunnie Caper" (with Will Jacobs, DC Comics, 1991)
- Legion of Super-Heroes #22-24, 26-30, 32, 34-36, 38 (with Tom Bierbaum, Mary Bierbaum and Keith Giffen, DC Comics, 1991â€"1992)
- Crusade of Comics Presents: Spawn (with Terry Fitzgerald, one-shot, Gladstone, 1992)
- Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #6: "The Book of Equals" (with Gerard Jones, DC Comics, 1993)
- Vanguard #2 (with Gary Carlson, Image, 1993)
- Namor, the Sub-Mariner Annual #3: "Under the Skin" (with Ron Marz and various artists, Marvel, 1993)
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #17: "The Gift Goodbye" (with Scott Lobdell, Marvel, 1993)
- The Dragon: Blood & Guts #1-3 (script and art, Image, 1995)
- Penthouse Men's Adventure Comix #1-2, 4: "Action Figures" (with George Caragonne and Tom Thornton, Penthouse Comix, 1995)
- Shi: Senryaku #3 (with Gary Cohn and various artists, Crusade, 1995)
- Body Bags (script and art):
- Body Bags: Father's Day #1-4 (Dark Horse, 1996â€"1997)
- "World Destroyer" (in Dark Horse Presents Annual '97, 1998)
- "Well, It's About Time" (in Dark Horse Maverick, 2000)
- Body Bags: 3 the Hard Way: "Hit Da Switches" (one-shot, Image, 2005)
- Body Bags: One Shot (Image, 2008)
- Penthouse Comix #29-30: "Re-Introducing Action Figures" (with George Caragonne, Penthouse, 1998)
- Witchblade #24 (with David Wohl, Christina Z and Randy Green, Top Cow, 1998)
- Grendel: Black, White & Red #4: "Devil's Cage" (with Matt Wagner, Dark Horse, 1999)
- The Batman Chronicles #16: "Two Down" (with Greg Rucka, DC Comics, 1999)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer #8: "The Final Cut" (with Andi Watson and Cliff Richards, Dark Horse, 1999)
- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #118: "Balance" (with Greg Rucka, DC Comics, 1999)
- Batman: Gotham Knights #22: "The Bottom Line" (with Michael Golden, DC Comics, 2001)
- Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special (with Brian Michael Bendis, among other artists, Marvel, 2002)
- X-Men Unlimited #39: "The Final Alternative" (script and art, Marvel, 2003)
- Tom Strong's Terrific Tales #5, 8 (with Alan Moore, America's Best Comics, 2003)
- The Many Worlds of Tesla Strong (with Alan Moore, Peter K. Hogan and various artists, one-shot, Wildstorm, 2003)
- Hellboy: Weird Tales #4: "The Dread Within" (script and art, Dark Horse, 2001)
- Action Comics #805: "The Harvest, Conclusion" (with Joe Kelly and Pasqual Ferry, DC Comics, 2001)
- Eye of the Storm Annual: "Time to Kill" (with Geoff Johns, Wildstorm, 2003)
- Global Frequency #11: "Aleph" (with Warren Ellis, Wildstorm, 2004)
- The Ride #2: "Wheels of Change, Act 4" (with Doug Wagner, Image, 2004)
- Desperado Primer: "A Mirror to the Soul" (with Paul Jenkins and various artists, one-shot, Desperado Publishing, 2005)
- Gun Candy #1: "Mardi Gras, Act 2: Bourbon & Toulouse" (with Chuck Dixon, Image, 2005)
- Welcome to Tranquility #8: "The Ferocious Lindo Sisters in: What You Really Want!" (with Gail Simone and Neil Googe, Wildstorm, 2007)
- Robin Annual #7: "The Festival of the Hungry Ghosts" (with Keith Champagne, DC Comics, 2007)
- Joker's Asylum: Penguin (with Jason Aaron, one-shot, DC Comics, 2008)
- Punisher Annual #1: "Remote Control" (with Rick Remender, Marvel, 2009)
- X-Force Annual #1 (with Robert Kirkman, Marvel, 2010)
- Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War #1-4 (with Duane Swierczynski, Marvel, 2010)
- Astonishing X-Men #36-37: "Monstrous" (with Daniel Way, Marvel, 2011)
Covers only
- Justice Machine #6 (Innovation, 1991)
- Spider-Femme 2088 #1 (Personality, 1993)
- X-Babes 2088 #1 (Personality, 1993)
- Valor #11 (DC Comics, 1993)
- Exiles #4 (Malibu, 1993)
- Catalyst: Agents of Change #1-7 (Dark Horse, 1994)
- Out of the Vortex #5 (Dark Horse, 1994)
- Hellhounds: Panzer Cops #3, 5 (Dark Horse, 1994)
- Gen¹³ #1 (Wildstorm, 1994)
- Sunglasses After Dark #3-5 (Verotik, 1996)
- Penthouse Comix #14, 18 (Penthouse, 1996)
- Ghost v1 #19 (Dark Horse, 1996)
- Robin #45, 61, 65-70, 72, 121-125 (DC Comics, 1997â€"2004)
- Voodoo #1 (Image, 1997)
- Body Doubles #1 (DC Comics, 1998)
- Dark Nemesis #1 (DC Comics, 1998)
- Darkseid #1 (DC Comics, 1998)
- Gog #1 (DC Comics, 1998)
- Mr. Mxyzptlk #1 (DC Comics, 1998)
- Prometheus #1 (DC Comics, 1998)
- Scarecrow #1 (DC Comics, 1998)
- The Rogues #1 (DC Comics, 1998)
- Generation X #35-36 (Marvel, 1998)
- X-Men #73 (Marvel, 1998)
- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #109-111, 159-161 (DC Comics, 1998â€"2003)
- Ghost v2 #7, 16-17 (Dark Horse, 1999â€"2000)
- The Dirty Pair: Start the Violence #1 (Dark Horse, 1999)
- Xena: Warrior Princess #6-9 (Dark Horse, 2000)
- Gen-Active #2 (Wildstorm, 2000)
- Jet #1-4 (Wildstorm, 2000â€"2001)
- Superman/Tarzan: Sons of the Jungle TPB (Dark Horse, 2002)
- The Amazing Spider-Man v2 #40-42 (Marvel, 2002)
- Hellboy: Weird Tales #2 (Dark Horse, 2003)
- Xin: Journey of the Monkey King #3 (Anarchy Studio, 2003)
- Galactic #1-3 (Dark Horse, 2003)
- Thundercats: Dogs of War #1 (Wildstorm, 2003)
- Stormwatch: Team Achilles #17-23 (Wildstorm, 2004)
- The Amazing Spider-Man v1 #502 (Marvel, 2004)
- H.E.R.O. #16-18 (DC Comics, 2004)
- Birds of Prey #75-77 (DC Comics, 2004â€"2005)
- The Ride: Foreign Parts #1 (Image, 2005)
- Wetworks #3 (Wildstorm, 2007)
- Midnighter #3 (Wildstorm, 2007)
- The Ride: Die Valkyrie #1 (Image, 2007)
- The Loners #1-6 (Marvel, 2007â€"2008)
- New Avengers/Transformers #2 (Marvel, 2007)
- Black Panther #39-41 (Marvel, 2008)
- Moon Knight #21 (Marvel, 2008)
- Deadpool #4-25 (Marvel, 2009â€"2010)
- Destroyer #1-5 (Marvel, 2009)
- Ultimate Comics: Enemy #1 (Marvel, 2010)
- Vampirella #4 (Dynamite, 2011)
- Deadpool Family #1 (Marvel, 2011)
- Astonishing X-Men #39 (Marvel, 2011)
- New Mutants #30, 32-33, 35 (Marvel, 2011â€"2012)
- X-Men v3 #15.1 (Marvel, 2011)
Notes
References
Interviews
- Jason Pearson on Body Bags' Return, Newsarama, April 21, 2005
- Berzerker Style: Pearson talks "Body Bags", Comic Book Resources, March 24, 2006
- Darkhorse.com interview about Body Bags
- An Audio Interview with Jason Pearson by SiDEBAR
