Jason Latour

David Jason Latour (born 1977) is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work for Image, Marvel and DC comics on titles such as Scalped and Wolverine.

Early life

Jason was born in Charlotte, NC and graduated from West Mecklenburg High School. He has a Bachelor's degree from East Carolina University where he also served as the student paper's head cartoonist.

Career

Latour minored in art at East Carolina University, graduating in 1999. While at ECU he began his first foray into the comics field with work on his creator owned humor comic strip "4 Seats Left". A brief, unsuccessful stint working in advertising was followed by a year of graduate study at the University of Florida, which he left to pursue a career as a comic book creator.

In 2005 Latour and writer B. Clay Moore created the short lived Sci Fi Pop Noir series "The Expatriate" for Image comics. Citing a personal need to improve and re-learn the craft of making comics he took himself "off the comics map" following the books cancellation in 2006. Resurfacing from time to time to do short anthology work and comic strips, he worked professionally under various pen names as a comic book colorist. In 2008, he was hired to illustrate the Vertigo Comics Crime Line graphic novel "Noche Roja" (with Simon Oliver) and has since resurfaced as an artist on titles such as Daredevil Black & White (Marvel 2010), Scalped (Vertigo 2010) and Wolverine (2010). In 2011 his debut long form writing work, Loose Ends (with Chris Brunner), is scheduled to be published by 12 Gauge Comics.