Jason B. Thompson
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"Burn me at the stake on a heap of manga"
Male
33 years old
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login:
6/26/2008
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Jason B. Thompson's Interests
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| General | Drawing comics, making costumes and masks, writing, climbing, hiking, traveling, writing a book on manga (Japanese comics), games and video games, reading, walking around the city, food, talking to people. Also: plants, icthyology (fish), herpetology (reptiles), cats, ancient history (particularly Greek & Egyptian), art, environmentalism, Japan, Australia, India, Tibet, politics (mostly liberal), armchair psychoanalysis, studying religion but not believing in it, horror, tabletop RPGs. | | Music | They Might Be Giants, Cheap Trick, Unrest, Velvet Underground, Peter Gabriel's Passion of the Christ soundtrack, Freezepop, Goblin, Bollywood Soundtracks, horror movie soundtracks, whatever's playing on the radio | | Movies | David Lynch (Eraserhead, The Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive), Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits, Brazil), David Cronenberg, Wes Anderson (The Life Aquatic), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Auto Focus), Woody Allen, The Marx Bros., The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Dawn of the Dead (both versions), Dario Argento, non-ironic horror movies, Hayao Miyazaki (The Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away), Neon Genesis Evangelion | | Television | Not often | | Books | A Confederacy of Dunces, Idols of Perversity, Al Franken, Raymond Chandler, An American Tragedy, The Bell Jar, Maldoror, Moby Dick, Eugene Ionescu, Edward Bond, John Steinbeck, Patrick Macias, The Cartoon History of the Universe, misc. ancient history, Herodotus, Dungeons & Dragons stuff, Kult, other tabletop RPGs, science fiction (Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Thomas Disch, George R.R. Martin, Dan Simmons, Iain Banks), horror (H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell), Inventorum Natura, Xombies, fundamentalist Christian apocalyptic fiction, fantasy (Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith), assorted comics and webcomics (Scott McCloud, Grant Morrison, Ariel Schrag, Gabrielle Bell, Jesse Hamm, Derek Kirk Kim, Narbonic, Jason Shiga, Patrick Farley, Achewood), too many manga to list but let's start with Riyoko Ikeda, Kazuo Umezu and Hirohiko Araki | | Heroes | Kazuo Umezu |
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Jason B. Thompson's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Healdsburg | | Body type: | 6' 0" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Love kids, but not for me | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Writer/Comic Artist | | Income: | $30,000 to $45,000 |
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Jason B. Thompson's Schools
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University Of California-San Diego
La Jolla,California
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Creative Writing
Minor: Visual Arts
Clubs: Played too many role-playing games
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Jason B. Thompson's Companies
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Viz LLC
San Francisco, CA US
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1996-2006
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About me:
I am actually the author of Manga: The Complete Guide, an encyclopedia of all manga printed in English coming out in August 2007. My name is Jason Thompson and I'm a manga editor, comics artist and writer for Otaku USA magazine. I was born in San Francisco, grew up in Sonoma County, went to school at UC San Diego, moved back to San Francisco, and worked for Viz (the anime and manga publisher) for 10 years. I've read almost every manga published in English.
I've also drawn a bunch of comics, of which my current and favorite project is The Stiff. I also adapted some H.P. Lovecraft stories. I live in the Tenderloin, and I've been blessed to have nerdy jobs all my life.
Lastly, I have a livejournal.
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