Career
He served as the chief character designer for both Jackie Chan Adventures and The Batman, and is the president and creative director of X-Ray Kid Studios. Matsuda was discovered by Rob Liefeld after submitting some WildC.A.T.S. samples pages to Liefeld"s Extreme Studios and Jim Lee"s Wildstorm. However, Matsuda"s first published artwork, depicting the X-Force character Cable, appeared in the letter art section of Wizard Magazine.
While at Extreme, he penciled issues of the Image Comics titles: Brigade, Team Youngblood, Youngblood Strikefile, Troll and New Men.
Matsuda moved on to work for Marvel Comics beginning with some pages for X-Men Prime, which eventually led to runs on X-Factor and Wolverine in addition to work on individual issues of X-Men, Generation X, Avengers and some pinup drawings in X-Men Unlimited. Matsuda was later reunited with Liefeld at Awesome Comics which published Kaboom, written by award-winning writer Jeph Loeb.
The protagonist of the title featured a third spelling of its creator"s first names, Geoff, though in Loeb"s case, Jeph is actually short for Joseph. Jeff Matsuda led the team designing the look of Google Lively.
