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| Jason Shiga | |
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 Jason Shiga in Berlin in 2008. | |
| Born | 1976 (age 48–49) Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Notable works | Meanwhile, Fleep , Demon |
| Awards | Xeric Award, 1999 Eisner Award, 2004 Ignatz Award, 2004 Stumptown Comics Award, 2007 |
| http://www.shigabooks.com | |
Jason Shiga (born 1976) is an American cartoonist who incorporates puzzles, mysteries and unconventional narrative techniques into his work. [1]
Jason Shiga is from Oakland, California. [2] [3] His father, Seiji Shiga, was an animator who worked on the 1964 Rankin-Bass production 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. [2]
Shiga is credited as the "Maze Specialist" for Issue #18 (Winter 2005/2006) of the literary journal 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 and the Fairly OddParents .
Shiga makes a cameo appearance in the Derek Kirk Kim comic Ungrateful Appreciation as a Rubik's Cube-solving nerd.
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 08 felt-tip pen. The colors were applied digitally by John Pham. [2] His book Meanwhile uses a system of branching tubes that connect panels to make a interactive story.
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