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comics artist

David Jason Latour is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work for Image, Dark Horse, Marvel and District of Columbia comics on titles such as Scalped, Wolverine, B.P.R.D., Winter Soldier and Django Unchained.

Background

Jason Latour was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and graduated from West Mecklenburg High School.

Education

East Carolina University.

Career

He has a Bachelor"s degree from East Carolina University where he also served as the student paper"s head illustrator and cartoonist. 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".

In late 2004 Latour and writer B. Clay Moore created the short lived series The Expatriate at Image Comics.

In 2009, he was hired to illustrate the Vertigo Comics Crime Lincolnshire graphic novel Noche Roja with Simon Oliver, to be published in 2011, and has since worked as an artist on titles such as the 2010 Marvel miniseries Daredevil: Black & White, Wolverine (2010) and the critically acclaimed crime series Scalped (Vertigo 2010). In 2011 his creator owned long form writing debut, Loose Ends (with artist Chris Brunner), was published by 12 Gauge Comics.