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David Jason Latour (born August 29, 1977) is an American comic-book and comic-strip artist and writer known for his work for , Dark Horse Comics, , and on titles such as Wolverine, , Southern Bastards and , co-creating Spider-Woman / Gwen Stacy (Earth-65) in the latter, later adapted to the Spider-Verse film franchise.


Early life
Jason Latour was born in Charlotte, NC and graduated from West Mecklenburg High School. He received a Bachelor's degree in 1999 from East Carolina University where he had minored in art and served as the head illustrator and cartoonist for The East Carolinian, the student newspaper.


Career
While Latour was a student at East Carolina University, he began his first foray into the comics field with his creator-owned humor comic strip 4 Seats Left.

Most recently, Latour served a Production Consultant on (2018) and (2023). Both films featured Spider-Woman, the motion-picture name of the character Latour co-created (see below).

In late 2004, Latour and writer B. Clay Moore created the short-lived series The Expatriate at . In 2009, he was hired to illustrate the graphic novel Noche Roja (with , , hc, 184 pages, 2011, ; sc, 2011, ), which was published in 2011, and has since worked as an artist on comic-book titles such as the 2010 miniseries Daredevil: Black & White,Phillips, Dan. "Daredevil: Black and White #1 The Man of Fear gets the Black and White treatment." . August 4, 2010 Wolverine (2010)Melrose, Kevin. "Chain Reactions: Wolverine #1". Comic Book Resources. September 4, 2010 and the critically acclaimed crime series Scalped (Vertigo 2010).Hargro, Carlton. "Comic Review: Scalped No. 43" . Creative Loafing Charlotte. November 30, 2010 In 2011, his creator-owned long-form writing debut Loose Ends (with artist Chris Brunner) was published by in conjunction with independent publisher 12-Gauge Comics.


Spider-Gwen
In September 2014, Latour co-created Spider-Gwen, an alternate-universe version of that debuted in Edge of Spider-Verse #2. The character's popularity quickly warranted an ongoing comic-book series published by that began in February 2015. The series explored a universe where Gwen Stacy was bitten by a radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker, leading her to a career as the of her world. The first volume ended after the fifth issue with the character carrying over into the second volume of "" as part of the "Secret Wars" story line. Latour wrapped up his run in 2019 to focus on creator-owned material. On Latour's retirement in August 2020, stated they had no current projects planned with him.


Southern Bastards
Also in 2014, Latour and writer co-created the comic-book series Southern Bastards at . The series revolves around the culture in a small town in the American South where football is everything and people try to get away with crime. The series won the 2015 for Best New Series and the 2016 for Best Continuing Series. Latour primarily illustrated the series, but also wrote two issues of the title to date.

In August 2020, the series paused after Latour took a leave of absence in light of misconduct allegations, before Latour returned to publishing creator-owned work in January 2022, including in Image 30th Anniversary Anthology #12 (April 2023).


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