Me and my SCALPED poker chip
Originally uploaded by Jason Aaron.

"Overwhelming is the right word to use for this book. It's a must buy."
Silver Bullet Comics

"I have absolutely no idea where the story will go from where it leaves off… and I love it."
Newsarama

"Must Have."
IGN

"Aaron takes us into a violent world where brutality trumps reason and corruption reigns supreme."
Eye On Comics

From a post at Brian K. Vaughan's message board:

"Scapled #1: 22pgs of comic. 47 major cuss words. 21 minor cusses. 6 racial slurs & 5 sexual references. this was really a great start!"

According to the Blog at Newsarama, this is Jason Aaron Week, since both SCALPED #1 and THE OTHER SIDE #4 hit shelves yesterday. So celebrate accordingly. Meaning you need to move to Kansas City, shave your head, drink Dr. Pepper for breakfast and learn how to say "Roll Tide."

It has been a busy week for me. I did a two-part interview with Scryptic Studios, a site that's a great resource for writers. Thanks to Elton and Caleb for the terrific questions.

Scryptic Studios Interview Part One
Scryptic Studios Interview Part Two

I also did an interview with Frederik Hautain at Broken Frontier, Brian Warmoth at Wizard and Jon Niccum at the Lawrence Journal-World. My editor, Will Dennis, wrote this month's Vertigo On the Ledge column for SCALPED (I've said it before but I'll say it again: he's the best editor in comics, folks). And there are reviews of SCALPED #1 already online at the excellent review site Eye On Comics and in the Thursday Morning Quarterback segment at Wizard.

Also, in the recent 2007 Preview issue of Wizard Magazine, I was listed among the "Seven in '07," their list of writers on the rise, which also included Andy Diggle, Chris Gage, Adam Beechen, Jeff Parker, Brian Reed and Arvid Nelson. But just to make sure I didn't get a big head or anything, Wizard decided to spell my name wrong: I'm now Jason Aron, I guess.

Thanks to everyone who picked up SCALPED this week. Be sure and let me know what you think.

SCALPED #1 and THE OTHER SIDE #4 are both due out this week, so I'll be doing a couple of signings. The first one is Thursday, January 4, at Elite Comics in Overland Park, KS. I'll be at Elite from 11 am to around 8 pm, so drop by and get your limited edition SCALPED poker chips. On Saturday, January 6, I'll be signing at Astrokitty Comics in Lawrence, KS, along with fellow comic creators Tony Moore, B. Clay Moore, Jeremy Haun and Seth Peck. The festivities at Astrokitty began at 1:00.

Elite Comics
11842 Quivira Rd
Overland Park, KS
(913) 345-9910

Astrokitty Comics
15 E 7th St
Lawrence, KS
(785) 856-8607

From Millarworld:
Question: Is SCALPED going to be like other ongoing Vertigo series in terms of length (about 50-75 issues long)?


My answer: I sure hope so. As of right now, I have the series mapped out to around issue #30, when the shit really hits the fan. In those first thirty issues, we'll meet tribal cops, meth addicts, greedy officials from the BIA, practitioners of Jeet Kune Do, the Dawg Soldierz, the Burn Victims, an FBI agent named after Warren Oates' father, a two time Soldier of Fortune Combat Knife Champion, a brutal Hmong street gang, a Heyoka who talks to his horse and the sheriff who presides over the largest drunk tank in the United States.


Places to find me online:

MySpace
My page on MySpace has a couple of slideshows with preview art from both THE OTHER SIDE and SCALPED.

THE OTHER SIDE on MySpace
THE OTHER SIDE has its own MySpace page, where you can make yourself eligible for all sorts of cool prizes (including original art) just by adding THE OTHER SIDE to your Top Friends.

ComicSpace
I just recently signed up for this all comic book version of MySpace.

Flickr
Check out all sorts of character sketches and preview pages from my books, as well as the occasional photo.

My favorite message boards:
The Engine
Millarworld
Image Comics
Comic Book Resources