Jason Pearson

Jason Pearson's first published comics work was in 1991. His first and longest regular assignment, beginning that year, was working with Keith Giffen on Legion of Super-Heroes with scripters Tom and Mary Bierbaum, and inker Al Gordon.{{Cite web |title=Jason Pearson, Comics Artist, Dead at 52 |url=https://comicbook.com/comics/news/jason-pearson-comics-artist-dead-at-52/ |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Comics |language=en}} He later described Giffen as one of his mentors.[http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14689 Catching Up With Jason Pearson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929130728/http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14689|date=2007-09-29}}, Newsarama, June 25, 2004

He developed Body Bags to be part of Ground Zero, an anthology intended for Image Comics, which did not pick it up. He produced a four issue mini-series which served in 1996 as the debut title for the Blanc Noir line of titles produced by Gaijin Studios for Dark Horse Comics. In 1998, he began work on a sequel, which was interrupted by an illness. Body Bags: 3 The Hard Way and Body Bags: One Shot followed in 2005 and 2008. In 2015, Pearson ran a Kickstarter funding campaign for a 96-page story Body Bags: Don't Die Until I Kill You, raising $39,514, nearly double his goal of $20,000. After repeated delays, in 2022 he again promised that publication was imminent.{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=2021-09-24 |title=Jason Pearson's Body Bags Back For 2022 As #1 CGC 9.8 Goes To Auction |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jason-pearsons-body-bags-back-for-2022-as-1-cgc-9-8-goes-to-auction/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Bleeding Cool News And Rumors |language=en}}

Meanwhile, he illustrated individual issues and covers for books published by Wildstorm, Marvel, Dark Horse, and Image. He announced that he was writing and drawing a mini-series called Redbird – intended to be the first of a trilogy – in 2004, but the project was not completed.

Pearson died December 19, 2022, of a stroke.{{Cite web |title=Jason Pearson, Creator Of Body Bags, Died In December Aged 52 |publisher=Bleeding Cool |last=Johnston |first=Rich |authorlink=Rich Johnston |date=2023-01-17 |accessdate=2023-01-17 |lang=en-GB |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jason-pearson-creator-of-body-bags-died-in-december-aged-52/}}

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, 1991–1992)
• 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, 1996–1997)
• "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)

• 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, 1997–2004)
• 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, 1998–2003)
• Ghost v2 #7, 16–17 (Dark Horse, 1999–2000)
• 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, 2000–2001)
• 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, 2004–2005)
• 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, 2007–2008)
• New Avengers/Transformers #2 (Marvel, 2007)
• Black Panther #39–41 (Marvel, 2008)
• Moon Knight #21 (Marvel, 2008)
• Deadpool #4–25 (Marvel, 2009–2010)
• 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, 2011–2012)
• X-Men v3 #15.1 (Marvel, 2011)

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929132817/http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32177 Jason Pearson on Body Bags' Return], Newsarama, April 21, 2005
• [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=6719 Berzerker Style: Pearson talks "Body Bags"], Comic Book Resources, March 24, 2006
• [http://www.darkhorse.com/news/interviews.php?id=645 Darkhorse.com interview about Body Bags]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080213084653/http://sidebar.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=275381 An Audio Interview with Jason Pearson by SiDEBAR]

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