Jhonen C. Vasquez (born September 1, 1974) is an American comic book writer, cartoonist, and music video director who created Invader Zim. He is best known for creating the comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, its spin-off comics Squee! and I Feel Sick.
Jhonen C. Vasquez was born on September 1, 1974 in San Jose, California. He grew up in East San Jose and attended Mt. Pleasant High School, where he often spent much of his class time drawing in sketchbooks and took part in a contest to design a new look for his school's mascot, the Cardinal. He earned no prizes, but on the back of a preliminary drawing for the contest, he drew his first sketch of the character who would later become Johnny C. His high school's student newspaper published a number of his comic strips featuring this character, titled Johnny the Little Homicidal Maniac. Vasquez also created Happy Noodle Boy while attending Mt. Pleasant. He read his older brother's superhero comics as a child, but first became interested in the medium through the original independent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman.
Nickelodeon credits[]
- The Nightmare Begins - Writer, Additional Storyboard Artist
- Bestest Friend/NanoZim - Writer
- Parent-Teach Night - Writer
- Germs - Writer
- Attack of the Saucer Morons - Writer
- Battle-Dib - Writer
- Planet Jackers - Writer
- Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain - Writer
- A Room with a Moose - Writer
- Bloaty's Pizza Hog - Writer
- FBI Warning of Doom - Writer
- Bolognius Maximus/Game Slave 2 - Writer
- Battle of the Planets - Writer
- Halloween Spectacular of Doom - Writer
- Megadoomer - Writer
- Abducted - Writer
- Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom - Writer
- Tak: The New Hideous Girl - Writer
- Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars - Writer
- Gaz, Taster of Pork - Writer
- The Frycook What Came from All That Space - Writer
- The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever - Writer