Jason Little (cartoonist)
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Jason Palmer Little is an American
cartoonist
.
He grew up in Binghamton, New York
, studied photography
at Oberlin College
, and now lives in Brooklyn with writer
Myla Goldberg
and their two daughters.
Little's first graphic novel
, Shutterbug Follies
(ISBN 0-385-50346-6), a mystery adventure featuring his heroine Bee, was originally serialized in free weekly papers and on the Internet. Little began a new Bee series, "Motel Art Improvement Service" in February 2005. His other work includes short pieces for various cartoon anthologies, and the Xeric Foundation
award-winning one-issue comic book Jack's Luck Runs Out
.
United States
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cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
.
He grew up in Binghamton, New York
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers...
, studied photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
at Oberlin College
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...
, and now lives in Brooklyn with writer
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
Myla Goldberg
Myla Goldberg
Myla Goldberg is an American novelist and musician.-Biography:Goldberg was born into a Jewish family. She was raised in Laurel, Maryland, and graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School. She majored in English at Oberlin College, graduating in 1993...
and their two daughters.
Little's first graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...
, Shutterbug Follies
Shutterbug Follies
Shutterbug Follies is a graphic novel created by Jason Little. The book was released as a weekly online and newspaper series, and was published in its entirety by Doubleday in 2002. The series continued in 2005 under the title Motel Art Improvement Service.-Plot:The book features the character Bee,...
(ISBN 0-385-50346-6), a mystery adventure featuring his heroine Bee, was originally serialized in free weekly papers and on the Internet. Little began a new Bee series, "Motel Art Improvement Service" in February 2005. His other work includes short pieces for various cartoon anthologies, and the Xeric Foundation
Xeric Foundation
The Xeric Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation based in Northampton, Massachusetts, which for twenty years awarded self-publishing grants to comic book creators, as well as qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations...
award-winning one-issue comic book Jack's Luck Runs Out
Jack's Luck Runs Out
Jack's Luck Runs Out is a full-color one-shot comic book created by Jason Little. The book features playing cards as characters, where the title character is a jack. In March 1998, Little received a grant to help publish the book from the Xeric Foundation...
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