{"id":1373,"date":"2010-07-17T22:44:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T03:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1373"},"modified":"2010-08-09T19:22:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:22:52","slug":"jason-aaron","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1373","title":{"rendered":"Jason Aaron"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/JasonAaron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1375\" title=\"JasonAaron\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/JasonAaron.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Aaron\" width=\"101\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>Jason Aaron<\/strong> is a comic book writer known for his Native American crime noir series <em>Scalped<\/em> (Vertigo) and popular runs writing Marvel Comics series including <em>Wolverine: Weapon X<\/em>, <em>Ghost Rider<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0 <em>PunisherMAX<\/em>, and <em>Amazing Spider-Man and Wolverine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He was born and raised in Alabama and moved to Kansas City as an adult. Jason&#8217;s cousin, Gustav Hasford, wrote <em>The Short-Timers, <\/em>which was the inspiration for the film <em>Full Metal Jacket<\/em>. Jason&#8217;s says his first Vertigo project, a Vietnam-era story titled <em>The Other Side, <\/em>was written to honor his cousin.<\/p>\n<h2>Awards and Nominations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>2007 Eisner Awards\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Other Side<\/em>: Best Limited Series (nominated)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2010 Eagle Awards\n<ul>\n<li><em>Scalped<\/em>: Favourite American Colour Comicbook (nominated)<\/li>\n<li><em>Scalped<\/em> #19-24, &#8220;The Gravel in Your Guts&#8221;: Favourite Continued Story (nominated)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2010 Harvey Awards\n<ul>\n<li>Best Writer (nominated)<\/li>\n<li><em>Scalped<\/em>: Best Continuing or Limited Series (nominated)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<address>Website: <a title=\"Jason Aaron\" href=\"http:\/\/jasoneaaron.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">jasoneaaron.blogspot.com<\/a><\/address>\n<address>Message Boards: <a title=\"Jason Aaron's Standard Attrition message board\" href=\"http:\/\/jasonaaron.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Standard Attrition<\/a><br \/>\n<\/address>\n<address>Twitter: <a title=\"Jason Aaron on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonaaron\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/jasonaaron<\/a><\/address>\n<address>Facebook: <a title=\"Jason Aaron on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=565484561\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=565484561<\/a><\/address>\n<address>Comicbookdb: <a title=\"Jason Aaron on Comicbookdb.com\" href=\"http:\/\/comicbookdb.com\/creator.php?ID=7685\" target=\"_blank\">comicbookdb.com\/creator.php?ID=7685<\/a><\/address>\n<address>Wikipedia: <a title=\"Jason Aaron on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Aaron\" target=\"_blank\">en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Aaron<\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography Jason Aaron is a comic book writer known for his Native American crime noir series Scalped (Vertigo) and popular runs writing Marvel Comics series including Wolverine: Weapon X, Ghost Rider,\u00c2\u00a0 PunisherMAX, and Amazing Spider-Man and Wolverine. He was born and raised in Alabama and moved to Kansas City as an adult. Jason&#8217;s cousin, Gustav &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jason Aaron&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1381,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1373","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1373\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}