John Patrick Green

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John Patrick Green

John Patrick Green is an illustrator and creator of comics, notable for Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden, and the graphic novel series, InvestiGators.

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Career

Green has been drawing comics since he was a child. [1] He especially loved LOS 40 and drawing Garfield; [2] his first original comic was called 'The Footsies,' and featured child characters with very large feet. He started his career doing design and production on the Disney Adventures magazine, as well as freelance book design. [3]

Green, under the name John Green, [4] is the co-creator and illustrator of Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden , a comic co-created and written by Dave Roman. The story was first serialized in issue-format comics in 1996; two books of the comic were published, subtitled Borrowed Magic and Separation Anxiety respectively. [5] Green also co-created Teen Boat with Dave Roman. Two stories were published in print, while three are available online as a webcomic. [6]

Green has published seven volumes in his InvestiGators graphic novel series, [7] which tells the story of two alligators who solve mysteries for a large undercover spy agency, as well as an InvestiGators Free Comic Book Day comic book. [8] The InvestiGator: Agents of S.U.I.T. series [9] spins off the original InvestiGators series to tell the stories of other mystery-solving agents; these books are co-created with Christopher Hastings and Pat Lewis. [10] About the series, Green says, "Of all the comics I’ve created in my professional career, making InvestiGators has come closest to recapturing that feeling of being eleven years old, drawing comics in my bedroom, with the sole intention of making my friends and classmates laugh." [11]

Bibliography [12]

Personal life

Green grew up on Long Island, [16] and has lived in Brooklyn. [17]

In a 2014 article, Green discusses getting into comics: " I was always an artist, constantly drawing as a kid. I was a very sick child and spent a lot of time indoors. Drawing was an activity I could do that wouldn't cause an asthma attack or expose me to allergens. My gateway into comics were the funny pages." [18]

Green attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, [19] where he met Jax Epoch and Teen Boat! collaborator Dave Roman. [20]

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