| Jeph Jacques | |
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Jacques at San Diego Comic-Con 2008 |
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| Born | Jeffrey Paul Jacques June 17, 1980 Rockville, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Easthampton, Massachusetts |
| Notable works | Questionable Content indietits |
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Jeph Jacques (born Jeffrey Paul Jacques, June 17, 1980) writes and illustrates the webcomic Questionable Content. He was born in Rockville, Maryland, and graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music. He lives in Southampton, Massachusetts with his wife (and business manager) Cristi.[1]
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Questionable Content (QC) is a comedic slice-of-life webcomic that Jacques started on August 1, 2003. It was initially published two days a week, and then moved up to three updates a week when Jacques published strip #16.[2] On September 4, 2004 Jacques lost his day job, and decided to try publishing QC every weekday and make a living selling QC-related T-Shirts.[3] Jeph is one of the small number of professional web cartoonists, as he and his wife Cristi both make their living through QC.[4]
Jacques is a member of Dayfree Press, joining forces with artists such as Christian Fundin and Pontus Madsen (Little Gamers), Sam Logan (Sam and Fuzzy), and Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics).
Jacques launched "indietits"[5] as an anonymous side project on April 1, 2005 to use ideas that did not fit into Questionable Content's setting. Compared to Questionable Content, it is a simple strip, eschewing detailed art and linear storyline in favour of reusable pre-drawn panels and one-shot jokes.
To further broaden his drawing limits, Jeph created Jephdraw to place unnamed drawings of his onto the internet. He puts anything from favored panels to simple sketches for others to see what he does in his spare time.
However, both Jephdraw and indietits seem to be on a hiatus, as the most recent posts are from 2006 and 2007, respectively.
Deathmøle is a virtual post-metal band, whose works are freely available over the Internet,[6][7] created by Jeph Jacques in 2005.[8] The band is currently composed of three characters from his comic, Questionable Content. The name for the band appears in Strip 554 for the first time.[9] Since its inception, Jacques has periodically released individual Deathmøle songs through his LiveJournal[10] or his Tumblr[11] where they remain available; newer albums are also available on BandCamp.[12]
Jacques states that Deathmøle's style "...started out as a joke- I wanted to write and record a really stupid metal song ... and it turned out to be really fun. So fun, in fact, that I started writing more 'serious' metal tracks, and that’s ... how the music evolved."[13]
In chronological order, the Deathmøle albums are Moletopopolis, Long Songs, ???, Trial Period (EP), Amps, Absent Gods & Creatures Foul, Fear of Black Horses[14] and finally Meade's Army (in progress).[15] Each album typically has seven or eight tracks with Trial Period's three and Moletopopolis' fifteen being the extremes.[16] The music is Jacques' original work, with the exception of a cover of Low's "Two-step" on Long Songs.
Jacques was the Artist Guest of Honor at the 2006 Albacon.[17] His webcomic Questionable Content has been honored multiple times in the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards.[18]
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