Jason Palmer Little (born 1970) is an American

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

. He grew up in

Binghamton, New York Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...

, studied

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Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...

, and now lives in

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

with

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Myla Goldberg Myla Goldberg (born November 19, 1971) is an American novelist and musician. Biography Goldberg was born into a Jewish family. She was raised in Laurel, Maryland, and graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School, where she was one of the Schola ...

and their two daughters. Little's first

graphic novel A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry ...

, ''

Shutterbug Follies ''Shutterbug Follies'' is a graphic novel created by Jason Little. The book was released as a weekly webcomic and newspaper series, and was published in its entirety by Doubleday in 2002. The series continued in 2005 under the title ''Motel Art ...

'' (), a mystery adventure featuring his heroine Bee, was originally serialized in free weekly papers and on the Internet. The series' online incarnation won the 2002

Ignatz Award The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997, only skipping a ...

for Outstanding Online Comic. Little began a new Bee series, ''

Motel Art Improvement Service A motel, also known as a motor hotel, motor inn or motor lodge, is a hotel designed for motorists, usually having each room entered directly from the parking area for motor vehicles rather than through a central lobby. Entering dictionaries ...

'' in February 2005; it was collected and published in hardcover by Dark Horse Originals in 2010. His other work includes short pieces for various cartoon anthologies, and the

Xeric Foundation The Xeric Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation based in Northampton, Massachusetts, which for twenty years awarded self-publishing grants to comic book creators, as well as qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations. The Xeric Fou ...

award-winning one-issue comic book '' Jack's Luck Runs Out''.

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Bio at Lambiek.net's Comiclopedia
Alternative cartoonists American comics writers American comics artists American webcomic creators People from Brooklyn Artists from Binghamton, New York Oberlin College alumni Living people 1970 births Ignatz Award winners for Outstanding Artist Ignatz Award winners for Outstanding Online Comic {{US-cartoonist-stub