Jeph Jacques

Jeph Jacques
Jacques at San Diego Comic-Con 2008
Born	Jeffrey Paul Jacques June 17, 1980 (1980-06-17) (age 31) Rockville, Maryland
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Easthampton, Massachusetts
Notable works	Questionable Content indietits
Official website

Jeph Jacques (born Jeffrey Paul Jacques, June 17, 1980(1980-06-17)) 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]

Questionable Content

Main article: Questionable Content

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]

Other artistic endeavors

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

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 Jacque's original work, with the exception of a cover of Low's "Two-step" on Long Songs.

Honors

See also: Questionable Content#Recognition

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]

References

1. ^ Jacques, Jeph. "About Questionable Content". Questionable Content. Archived from the original on 2007-08-25. http://web.archive.org/web/20070825115105/http://www.questionablecontent.net/about.php. Retrieved 2007-12-10. 
2. ^ "Strip #16 News Blog". http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=16. 
3. ^ "Strip #174 News Blog". http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=174. 
4. ^ Jacques, Jeph. "Frequently Asked Questions". Questionable Content. http://www.questionablecontent.net/faq.php. 
5. ^ "WHODUNIT". 3 November 2010. http://www.indietits.com. 
6. ^ J.Jacques. "Moletopopolis demos". Questionable Content. http://www.questionablecontent.net/deathmole/. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
7. ^ J.Jacques. "Deathmole- ???". Questionable Content. http://questionablecontent.net/deathmolequestion.html. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
8. ^ J.Jacques. "A Democratic Decision". Questionable Content. http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=554. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
9. ^ J.Jacques. "The Horn is Life". Questionable Content. http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=664. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
10. ^ J. Jacques. "I Am Afraid Of Everything". Livejournal.com. http://qcjeph.livejournal.com/. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
11. ^ "jephjacques". Tumblr.com. http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
12. ^ Jacques, Jeph. "deathmole.bandcamp.com". BandCamp. http://deathmole.bandcamp.com/. 
13. ^ "QA DUMP #01". jephjacques.tumblr.com. http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/9615284925/qa-dump-01/. Retrieved 03 September 2011. 
14. ^ "Deathmøle stuff". jephjacques.tumblr.com. http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/3955332324/deathm-le-stuff. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
15. ^ "New Deathmøle". jephjacques.tumblr.com. http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/9706208345/new-deathm-le. Retrieved 02 September 2011. 
16. ^ "Deathmøle". Last.fm. http://www.last.fm/music/Deathmøle. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
17. ^ "Albacon 11 Guests". Albacon. 2006-09-28. http://www.albacon.org/2006/guests.html. Retrieved 2007-12-10. 
18. ^ "WCCA Awards". http://www.ccawards.com/. Retrieved 2008-09-13. 

External links

• Jeph Jacques on Twitter
• Jeph Jacques on Tumblr
• Jeph Jacques on Bandcamp
• Questionable Content
• QC LiveJournal
• Jephdraw
• Yelling about music
• Indietits

Interviews with Jeph Jacques

• Questionable Creator: George Curtis Interviews Jeph Jacques (Comixpedia March, 2006)

Persondata
Name	Jacques, Jeph Paul
Alternative names
Short description	Comic author and illustrator
Date of birth	1980-06-17
Place of birth	Rockville, Maryland
Date of death
Place of death