Editing Jason Shiga

{{short description|American cartoonist (born 1976)}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2011}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox comics creator
| image         = Jason-Shiga-Berlin.jpg
| imagesize     = 
| caption       = Jason Shiga in Berlin in 2008.
| birth_name    = 
| birth_date    = {{birth year and age|1976}}
| birth_place   = [[Oakland, California]], U.S.
| death_date    = 
| death_place   = 
| cartoonist    = yes
| notable works = ''Meanwhile'', ''[[Fleep]]'', ''[[Demon (comics)|Demon]]''
| awards        =  [[Xeric Award]], 1999<br />[[Eisner Award]], 2004<br />[[Ignatz Award]], 2004<br />Stumptown Comics Award, 2007
| website       = http://www.shigabooks.com
}}

'''Jason Shiga''' (born	1976) is an American [[cartoonist]] who incorporates puzzles, mysteries and unconventional narrative techniques into his work.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,386289,00.html |last=Arnold |first=Andrew D. |title=The Puzzling World of Jason Shiga |magazine=[[Time.com]] |date=November 1, 2002 |access-date=May 3, 2019}}</ref>

==Early life==
Jason Shiga is from [[Oakland, California]].<ref name=EmpireState>{{cite book |last=Shiga |first=Jason |title=Empire State: A Love Story (Or Not) |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |location=New York |year=2011 |isbn=9780810997479 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/empirestateloves0000shig }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jason Shiga {{!}} Contributors |url=https://www.abramsbooks.com/contributor/jason-shiga_912423/ |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=ABRAMS |language=en}}</ref> His father, Seiji Shiga, was an animator who worked on the 1964 Rankin-Bass production ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]''. Jason Shiga was a [[pure mathematics]] major at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he graduated in 1998.<ref name="EmpireState" />

==Career==
Shiga is credited as the "Maze Specialist" for Issue #18 (Winter 2005/2006) of the literary journal ''[[Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern|McSweeney's Quarterly]]'', which features a solved maze on the front cover and a (slightly different) unsolved maze on the back. The title page of each story in the journal is headed by a maze segment labeled with numbers leading to the first pages of other stories.

Shiga has also drawn and written several comics and illustrated features for ''[[Nickelodeon Magazine]]'', some of which feature his original creations, and some starring Nickelodeon characters such as [[SpongeBob SquarePants (character)|SpongeBob SquarePants]] and the ''[[Fairly OddParents]]''.

Shiga makes a cameo appearance in the [[Derek Kirk Kim]] comic ''Ungrateful Appreciation'' as a [[Rubik's Cube]]-solving nerd.

===Techniques and materials===
According to the rear credits page of ''Empire State: A Love Story'', Shiga, who was inspired by an actual [[Greyhound Bus]] trip from Oakland to New York to create that story, [[pencilled]] it with a yellow [[No. 2 pencil]] on copy paper. He then inked it with a [[lightbox]] and a 222 size [[Winsor & Newton]] brush, and lettered it with a [[Micron pen|Micron]] 08 [[felt-tip pen]]. The colors were applied digitally by John Pham.<ref name="EmpireState" />

==Awards==
===Won===
* 2019 [[Gran Guinigi]] winner: Best Series, ''Demon''.
* 2017 [[Eisner Award|Eisner Comic Industry Award]] winner: Best Graphic Album-Reprint, ''Demon''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-17-2017-eisner-awards-live-blog/ |title=SDCC '17: 2017 Eisner Awards live-blo g|date=July 22, 2017 |first=Kyle |last=Pinion |work=The Beat |access-date=May 3, 2019}}</ref>
* 2014 [[Ignatz Award]] winner: Outstanding Series, ''Demon''.
* 2007 [[Stumptown (comics)|Stumptown Comics]] Award winner: Best Writing, ''Bookhunter''.
* 2003 [[Ignatz Award]] winner: Outstanding Story, ''Fleep''.
* 2003 [[Eisner Award|Eisner Comic Industry Award]] winner: Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.
* 1999 [[Xeric Award]] winner: ''Double Happiness''.

===Nominated===
* 2018 Angouleme Festival Sélection Officielle, ''Demon''.
* 2018 Angouleme Festival Prix du Public, ''Demon''.
* 2016 [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize]] nominee: Graphic Novel/Comics, ''Demon''.
* 2016 [[Ignatz Award]] nominee: Outstanding Series, ''Demon''.
* 2014 [[Ignatz Award]] nominee: Outstanding Webcomic, ''Demon''.
* 2012 Harvey Award nominee: Best Letterer, Best Inker, Best Writer, Best Artist, ''Empire State''.
* 2011 Harvey Award nominee: Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers, ''Meanwhile''.
* 2007 Eisner Comic Industry Award nominee: Best Graphic Album, ''Bookhunter''.
* 2007 [[Ignatz Award]] nominee: Outstanding Graphic Novel, ''Bookhunter''.
* 2004 Eisner Comic Industry Award nominee: Best Single Issue or One-Shot, ''Fleep''.

==Bibliography==
===Books===
*''Double Happiness'', 2000 Shigabooks
*''Fleep'', 2002 [[Sparkplug Comics]]
*''Bookhunter'', 2007 Sparkplug Comics (French translation, éditions Cambourakis, 2008)
*''Meanwhile'', 2010 Amulet Books (French translation as ''Vanille ou chocolat'', éditions Cambourakis, 2012)
*''Empire State - A Love Story (or Not)'', 2011 Abrams
*''Demon, Volume 1'', 2016 [[First Second Books|First Second]]
*''Demon, Volume 2'', 2017 First Second
*''Demon, Volume 3'', 2017 First Second
*''Demon, Volume 4'', 2017 First Second
*''Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan'', 2022 Amulet Books (French translation as ''Leviathan'', éditions Cambourakis, 2022), ISBN 978-1-4197-5779-2
*''Adventuregame Comics: The Beyond'', 2023 Amulet Books
*''Adventuregame Comics: Samurai vs. Ninja'', 2024 Abrams

===Self-published minicomics===
*''Phillip's Head'', 1997
*''The Adventures of Doorknob Bob'', 1997
*''Mortimer Mouse'', 1997
*''The Family Circus (parody)'', 1997
*''The Last Supper'', 1997
*''Grave of the Crickets'', 1998
*''The Bum's Rush'', 1998
*''The Date'', 1999
*''Meanwhile...'', 2001
*''Hello World'', 2003
*''Bus Stop'', 2004
*''Knock Knock'', 2006

==References==
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==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.shigabooks.com}}
* [http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/fleep/ Fleep, the collected comic]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20021216010521/http://www.time.com/time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,386289,00.html Time article on Jason, web exclusive]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060517035951/http://asianweek.com/2001_01_26/ae1_shiga_doublehappiness.html Asian Week Article] (February 2001)
* {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130414140115/http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php?title=Jason_Shiga Comixpedia]}}

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