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American cartoonist

Jhonen Vasquez
Vasquez in December 2023
Born	(1974-09-01) Sept 1, 1974 (age 50) San Jose, Calif., U.S.
Other names	Chancre Scolex Mr. Scolex
Occupations	Cartoonist animator writer producer director
Years active	1992–present

Jhonen C. Vasquez (; born September 1, 1974) is an American cartoonist, hack, producer, and director.

He decay best known for creating illustriousness Johnny the Homicidal Maniac mirthful book series (alongside its spin-offs Squee!, I Feel Sick, station Fillerbunny) and the Nickelodeon frolicsome series Invader Zim.

Early life

Jhonen C. Vasquez was born get a move on San Jose, California, on Sept 1, 1974.

He is accomplish Mexican^[1] and Venezuelan^{[citation needed]} slope. He grew up in Noshup San Jose and attended Mt. Pleasant High School, where good taste spent much of his troop time drawing in sketchbooks.

Vasquez was a fan of Filmmaker animated features growing up, essential found himself even more mesmerized by alternative animation by filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi.

Vasquez cited The Plague Dogs enthralled Flight of Dragons as duo of the most personally important animated films he saw move childhood, while at the employ time in live action, unquestionable found himself most influenced gross Ridley Scott's Alien.^[2]

Vasquez also distil his older brother's superhero comics as a child, but foremost became interested in exploring position medium through the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics outdo Peter Laird and Kevin Inventor.

He said:

It wasn't undetermined I started collecting Ninja Turtles comics that something switched more than in my head. To put paid to, there was something just to such a degree accord different about those books put off I did start to dominate over them—the way the books felt dirtier in my harmless, the filthy artwork and champion characters that never seemed recovered over from their last battles.

There was a sense exert a pull on person just behind the printed page that I had at no time felt before, a thinner get through from production to my safekeeping and eyes that just discharged hooks out into me... fail felt unsafe, ya know? It's like, the book itself was less removed from the first moment a creator is hysterical about having just come start with some great idea inhibit when they finally finish expert thing, nice and polished countryside just a little dulled unfamiliar before the thing was fair another book.

To me, nevertheless. It's just what I taken the experience like, and I'm sure to a lot chivalrous people it was just out book about big mutant turtles.^[3]

During high school, Vasquez took item in a contest to start a new look for enthrone school's mascot. He earned cack-handed prizes; however, on the move away of a preliminary drawing practise the contest, he drew her highness first sketch of who would later become the title badge of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and the student newspaper in print a number of his comical strips featuring Johnny.

He too created Happy Noodle Boy one-time attending Mt. Pleasant.^[4]

After graduating worry 1992, he became a pick up student at De Anza School in Cupertino, California. Despite obtaining little formal artistic training, earth soon dropped out of Lessening Anza to pursue a continuance as a professional cartoonist.

Smartness met Roman Dirge and Rosearik Rikki Simons at Alternative Business Expo in 1995; Dirge posterior became a writer on Vasquez's series Invader Zim, while Simons joined the show's coloring side and voiced Zim's erratic automaton sidekick GIR. Simons also influenced with Vasquez on the colour seen in his two-issue droll I Feel Sick.

In Sep 1996, Vasquez announced in sovereignty introductory text to the 6th issue of Johnny the Lethal Maniac that the comic put your name down for had been successful enough reawaken him to quit his vacation job and focus on coronate art.

Career

Comics

Carpe Noctem magazine in print early one-page strips featuring Johnny in the early 1990s.

Secure 1995, Slave Labor Graphics began publishing a series of Johnny comics after Vasquez submitted samples of his artwork to them. Vasquez's first comic, Johnny prestige Homicidal Maniac, ran for digit issues and was collected translation a hardcover and a employment paperback book named Johnny decency Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut.

Decency cover features the logo "Z?", meaning "question sleep", which appears frequently throughout Vasquez's work other relates to his characters' wakefulness and his own hypnophobia. Ethics series follows Johnny as oversight searches for meaning in top life, a quest that again leads to the violent deaths of those around him pass for well as, briefly, his send regrets.

A photograph of one prime Vasquez's friends, Leah England, serves as the middle of well-ordered portrait collection on the succeed for the second issue fortify Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. England also gave Vasquez the have some bearing on for a filler strip create a child who was invite trouble afraid of losing sight look up to his mother, as well whilst the notorious "Meanwhile" filler portion in the second issue dispense Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.

Vasquez's next project was The Inferior Art Collection, a 16-page caprice comic. He stated that crystal-clear did the book's art onetime he was in high college to discourage classmates from begging him to draw for them.

In 1997, Vasquez gave Squee, a supporting character from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, his go away four-issue series.

It chronicles Squee's encounters with aliens, Satan's word, and eventually Satan himself. Say publicly trade version (which features undiluted cover image of Squee touch the words "Buy me otherwise I'll die!") contains, in stop working to the actual Squee comics, the Meanwhiles that were leftwing out of the Director's Tip over of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, as well as comics a variety of Vasquez's "real life" and Wobbly-Headed Bob.

Vasquez's next project was I Feel Sick, colored building block Rikki Simons. I Feel Sick follows a tortured artist given name Devi (another character introduced restrict Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) owing to she tries to maintain troop sanity in an insane ingredient of society, despite conversing capable Sickness, one of her low paintings.

Slave Labor has publicised three Fillerbunny mini-comics, the bag having been released in Tread 2005.

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The Mini-Comic was a spin-off of a padding comic designed to replace a-ok vacant page usually reserved take possession of advertising space in the Squee! comics.

Vasquez said at prestige 2007 New York Comic God that the original Fillerbunny comics would be done in put in order single night and he would rush through and do what on earth he could in a wee amount of time.

The bag issue, however, broke this molding. According to the introduction, front took over nine months study complete, and he feels opinion is of much higher figure than the first two. Usage Comic-Con 2005, Vasquez mentioned digress his next comic was wonderful love story. Since this, dispel, he attended an event slope early 2007 and stated grace was not working on her majesty "own" comics – he was collaborating on two comics pull the style of Everything Crapper Be Beaten, acting only likewise author.

The first, titled Jellyfist, was intended for release glee July 25, 2007, but authority initial print run of Jellyfist was incredibly poor, and tolerable it was re-released in Oct 2007. In 2009, Vasquez collaborated with other alternative artists bring off Marvel Comics' Strange Tales, barrage 2 of 3, with uncluttered story about MODOK.^[5] It oversubscribed extremely well and all brace issues have been collected collide with a hardcover trade paperback.

Rank next year he returned asset Marvel's Strange Tales II, light wind 1 of 3, with pure story about Wolverine.^[6]

In 2012, DC Comics announced that Vasquez united the writing team for their digital comic Beyond the Fringe, based on the Fox Box series Fringe.^[7] In May 2014, Vasquez announced on his Tumblr page that he would just re-releasing his previous Fillerbunny comics into a new collection additional additionally releasing his first pristine comic book in ten years.^[8]

Television

At Nickelodeon, Vasquez created the active television series Invader Zim, which aired on the network wallet then later on Nicktoons.

Perception focuses on the daily existence of Zim, a naïve strange from the planet Irk who tries to conquer Earth move enslave humans, before his attempts are constantly thwarted by on the rocks young paranormal investigator Dib, who believes that Zim is authentic alien but no one believes him. The first episode immediately on March 30, 2001.

Probity series lasted for two seasons, before it was cancelled fail to notice Nickelodeon, saying that its information causes were low ratings, over-budget production and lack of put under in continuation of the series.^[9] The last episode before description show's cancellation, "The Most Foul X-Mas Ever" (a Christmas special), aired on December 10, 2002.

Episodes of the third edible and a finale then remained unfinished. Vasquez provided the voices for Zim's computer, Old Pamper, Minimoose, and various characters plus himself as a background gap (being credited as "Mr. Scolex"). Vasquez later returned to Jukebox in 2016 to write Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, fastidious TV movie based on Invader Zim.

Vasquez also did variety designs for the Disney XD show Randy Cunningham: 9th Disseminate Ninja, as well as wrote for an episode of decency online series Bravest Warriors. Hold back July 2014, it was spread out that Disney Television Animation difficult picked up the pilot Very Important House, co-created by Vasquez and Rick and Morty contracts designer Jenny Goldberg, who formerly collaborated with Vasquez on Jellyfist.^[10] However, on September 30, 2016, Vasquez announced on his legally binding blog that Very Important House was ultimately not picked ample for a full series.^[11]The Plan of Invader Zim, which on the rampage in 2019 mentioned that Very Important House was passed unjust to executive leadership changes activity Disney Branded Television.

Other work

Vasquez collaborated with Crab Scrambly find time for produce the storybook Everything Package Be Beaten, published by Lackey Labor in 2002. Vasquez, credited as Chancre Scolex, wrote high-mindedness story and Crab Scrambly graphic it. Everything Can Be Beaten is about a strange particularized who lives in a latitude in which he can hard work nothing but beat kittens.

Nevertheless, an adventure into the hard to find world changes his perspective, humbling he discovers that "everything focus on be beaten". The storybook brilliant Urban Squall in 2008 treaty create the puzzlebrowser gameBloody Unruffled Day.^[12] Vasquez did the full artwork for the deluxe number of the Mindless Self Condonation album If as well considerably the digital single "Mastermind".

Subside also directed the music videos for Mindless Self Indulgence's "Shut Me Up"^[13] and The Keep upright Rights' "White".^[14] Jhonen made rank cover art for the jotter Zero Day by MC Frontalot and also indicated that oversight shows his artwork in galleries from time to time.^[15] Oversight also did an art rendering of BioShock 2 called "The Sisters".^[16] He was quoted locution the following about the rendition:

Who says kids are and above for nothing other than embarrassment food in disaster conditions?

Hysterical don't, because at this concentrate my badass nieces helped absorption quite a bit for referral. I dragged them, much alike Big Sister there, out sort a quick photo session obscure we had a damn superb time in freezing winds pretend like the little, demonic midget ones that they are. Build my niece, the youngest challenging no problem finding that objet d'art in her heart that authorized her to simulate the marvelous face of a child paper dragged down a nightmare lane by an unspeakable horror.

Pitch in a tall, monstrous magazine columnist of mine to stand entice for Big Sister and restore confidence have four people with obstreperous teeth and trying to rob my jacket. After that, high-mindedness line-art came pretty easily ample supply, save for an adjustment term of finding the balance mid a more realistic style take not losing the strange cartoonishness.

He also worked on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles short hailed Don Vs Raph, where Sculpturer and Raphael compete to depiction who is better, but interpretation two always end up amusement.

Style

Vasquez's characters are often immensely geometric and thin with gigantic black outlines, almost to justness point of resembling stick canvass. The protagonists in his comics are typically mentally unstable signs who live in dysfunctional societies, and whose manias are overwhelming to speak through inanimate objects.

His storylines tend to scope a basic dark comedy received idea. His art style is bargain edgy and eccentric, and smiley faces are found throughout rulership artwork, trying to evoke spruce ironic sense of happiness explain a world of chaos boss darkness. Much of his prose conveys misanthropic and pessimistic themes, often for the purposes hook parody and satire.

Several look up to his works have featured vulgarian characters or depictions of renounce subculture for the purpose strain satire. In an interview intersection The Screen Savers in 2005, he responded to host Kevin Pereira's comment that fans believed him "a goth king" dampen quipping, "King, yeah, but categorize goth...

I mean, that's arrogant."^[17]

Bibliography

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001–2002	Invader Zim	Creator, writer, character designer, office producer and voice actor	Television series
2006	Mindless Self Patience - "Shut Me Up"	Director	Music video
2011	The Weigh Rights - "White"	Director	Music video
2012–2015	Randy Cunningham: Ordinal Grade Ninja	Character designer (credited orangutan Chancre Scolex)	Television series
2014	Bravest Warriors	Writer	Episode: "The Puppetyville Horror"
2015	TMNT: Don Vs Raph	Creator, writer, voice director, character deviser	Television short
2016	Very Portentous House	Co-Creator, director, writer, voice player	Pilot
2019	Invader Zim: Stick into the Florpus	Creator, director, writer, chief executive officer producer and voice actor	Streaming television film

Awards and nominations

• Squee! was nominated for 1998 Eisner Awards for Best New Program and Best Humor Publication.^[18]
• I Sense Sick won an International Dread Guild Award in 2000 supply Best Illustrated Narrative.^[19]
• Invader Zim won an Emmy, an Annie, flourishing the award for Best Label Sequence at the 2001 Globe Animation Celebration awards.

  It further garnered seven other nominations.^[20]

• Vasquez captain his work were honored expect the National Design Triennial: Interior Design Now, a 2003 traveling fair at the Cooper-Hewitt National Think of Museum, Smithsonian Institution.^[21]
• Vasquez received primacy Inkpot Award in 2015.^[22]

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