Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 1 by Jason Aaron

Guéra set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation. Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to Scalped, a creator-owned series with artist R. The Other Side was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and Aaron regards it as the “second time” he broke into the industry. In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC Comics’s imprint Vertigo, which became his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors. CareerĪaron’s career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine story script.

He then attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase comic books from spinner racks, some of which he still owned as of 2012.Īaron graduated from Shelby County High School. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers (1979), on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket (1987) was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Jason Aaron (born January 28, 1973) is an American comic book writer, known for his creator-owned series Scalped and Southern Bastards, as well as his work on Marvel series Ghost Rider, Wolverine, PunisherMAX, Thor, and The Avengers.

Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 1 by Jason Aaron