{"id":11247,"date":"2019-12-04T15:49:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=11247"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:55:39","slug":"jason-loo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/jason-loo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Loo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jason Loo is a Toronto-based cartoonist and freelance illustrator. In 2014, he debuted his self-published comic book, The Pitiful Human-Lizard<\/em>. The success of the series led to a publishing agreement with Chapterhouse  that reprinted the earlier issues and continued publishing newer ones. Altogether, the series ran to 21 issues over a five year period. Now collected into four volumes, the new format promises to reach an even larger audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In collaboration with Chip Zdarsky (writer) and others, Loo illustrated the comics Afterlift<\/em>, and, The All-Nighter<\/em>. Both comics are now collected into volumes issued by Dark Horse Books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Pitiful Human-Lizard: Season One: Far from Legendary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Chapterhouse Publishing, 2019.
New edition
PN6733.L66 P58 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Toronto\u2019s got a new superhero! And he\u2019s pitiful! Lucas Barrett is an office clerk by day and a struggling superhero on evenings and weekends. Since costume repairs and his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu classes strain his tight budget, Lucas volunteers as a test subject for a pharmaceutical company\u2019s trial painkiller. After a disgusting ordeal, Lucas realizes that the experimental drug left him with regenerative powers. With his newfound powers, the Human-Lizard is ready to take on any challenge that awaits him \u2013 even a supervillain interrupting his first date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Pitiful Human-Lizard: Season Two: Still Pretty Pathetic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Colour assists: Rachel Richey and Meaghan Carter.
Toronto: Chapterhouse Publishing, 2019.
PN6733.L66 P582 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this captivating second volume, join the Human-Lizard on new fantastic adventures! Our hero teams up with surprising new allies (spoiler alert: one of them is his mom) and takes on his greatest adversary yet: unreliable public transit! With new adventures starring Lady Accident, Mother Wonder, Majestic Rat, the Grizzly Biker, and introducing the biggest character to hit the Chapterverse: Razma-Foon! Collects issues #6-11 of the Pitiful Human-Lizard series by Jason Loo, the Summer Special team-up story featuring Captain Canuck, plus more exclusive stories!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Pitiful Human-Lizard: Season Three: Almost Getting There<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Chapterhouse Publishing, 2019.
PN6733.L66 P583 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Witness the viking funeral of Majestic Rat’s finest animal friends! The Human-Lizard’s amusing streetcar journey back home! The debut of Lucas Barrett’s younger, more successful sibling Janine! The sensa-tional showdown of Lady Accident vs. the Frustrated Four! And the epic space battle with Mother Wonder beyond the stars! All of it in the terrific third season of The Pitiful Human-Lizard!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Pitiful Human-Lizard: Season Four: Setbacks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Chapterhouse Publishing, 2019.
PN6733.L66 P584 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto Comics. Volume 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Loo, Jason, “Date with the Majestic Rat.” In Toronto Comics. Volume 3<\/em>, lead editor Steven Andrews, editors Aaron Feldman and Allison O’Toole, Toronto: Toronto Comics Anthology, 2016, 165-171.
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Jason Loo personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Chapterhouse<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leah Collins post May 10, 2019 on CBC Arts website, “Saying goodby to a Toronto superhero<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelly McDowell post March 14, 2014 “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…No It’s the Pitful Human Lizard”<\/a> in the Ryersonian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher: TO Comix Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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