Mini-Biography
    Jhonen rarely likes to talk about himself in interviews, so little is known about him.  However, this information is compiled from many sources.
    Jhonen C. Vasquez was born September 1, 1974 and raised on San Jose's East Side.  He graduated from Mount Pleasant High in 1992 and was a one-time film student at De Anzain College in Cupertino, CA.  Even though he has little formal artistic training, he entered the world of alternative comics, as the writer / creator / artist.  His (most popular) Johnny The Homicidal Maniac series was first published in Carpe Noctem, an underground Goth magazine out of Mount Pleasant in 1995.  Later that year, Jhonen discovered Slave Labor Graphics.  Jhonen has created such titles as Johnny, The Homicidal Maniac, SQUEE!, The Bad Art Collection, I Feel Sick, & Fillerbunny; all of which are published by SLG.  SQUEE! was nominated for several Eisner Awards, the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars.
    Around 1998, Mary Harrington approched Jhonen at ComicCon in San Diego with interest to make an animated TV series on Nickelodeon.  In March of 2001, ZIM premiered on Nick   Though the series proved to be unique and intelligent, it was cancelled less then a year after it's debut.
    Jhonen likes bagels, skittles, video games.  He also likes the japanese anime series Trigun and Evengelion.  Jhonen dosn't like hellfans and L.A.
Johnny The Homicidal Maniac
    Mayhem and violence rule in Jhonen Vasquez's Johnny The Homicidal Maniac.  Dark and disturbingly funny, JTHM follows the adventures of Johnny (some call him Nny).  He kills people, a lot.  He lives alone in an old shack of a house.  Although, technically he's not alone.  There's a pair of styrofoam doughboys named Mr. Fuck (a.k.a. Mr. Eff) & Psychodoughboy (a.k.a. D-Boy) that encourage his madness.  And the only thing that speaks to Johnny's sanity is Nailbunny, an old pet of his that he decapitated and nailed to the wall.  They are all voices in his head.  Johnny also visits his frightened little neighbor boy named Todd, but is better known as Squee (see below).  In Johnny's spare time, he draws Happy Noodle Boy (right), a loud mouthed, opinionated stick figure that is always demonstrating (on paper) just how angry Johnny is at the world.  But unfortunately for society, Johnny can't keep his ideas limited to the paper.  Johnny goes on killing sprees, but mostly it is all done in attempt to keep a fresh coat of blood on a wall in his home.  He claims that unless he keeps it fresh, the creature behind the wall will be unleashed upon the world.  Sound like mad talk?  Johnny's got a secret...
    So pick up a copy of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac and watch as Johnny thirsts for Cherry Brain Freezies, attempts suicide, and tries to uncover the meaning of his homicidal existence.

Squee! (Or Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors)
    This series features familiar faces from Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, but focuses on poor little Squee, Johnny’s little trauma magnet neighbor.  Squee reminds us all of what childhood was all about – witnessing vicious dog attacks, being abducted by aliens, discovering your schoolmates are all zombies, and having dinner at Satan’s house.  Remember a time of pure innocence... when you were terrified of just about everything – from your smelly Grandpa to marauding dust mites. Ahh, youth.
    Squee's father hate's Squee's very existence.  Ever since his birth, his father attributes everything that went wrong in his life to Squee.  His mother, a blank sheet of mental paper, is too lazy to be a parental figure.  The only real friend Squee has is his teddy bear Smee, who sometimes talks to Squee.
    The book pretty much picks up where JTHM left off.  In fact, where Squee leaves off, JTHM can pick up again (although, as of this writing, there has been no more additions to the Johnny Saga).

I Feel Sick
    This book chronicles the history of Devi.  Devi was the one true love of Johnny, and she is the only girl who got away from his homicidal attacks (refer to JTHM #2).  Kicked his ass, too.
    Devi has quit her job at the bookstore after being offered to paint pictures for NERVE publishing.  She found the job to be her calling in life, but that was until she stopped living one.  Devi has isolated herself away from the rest of the world, painting pictures that are asked to be revised and painted again.  She believes she's going crazy, and she just might be.  Even her friend Tenna can't get her to return to reality.  But if Devi can survive an attack from Johnny, why can't she beat the thing that's slowly driving her insane?

Filler Bunny & Revenge of Filler Bunny
    You loved him in the Squee! collection and I Feel Sick, now revel in this 16-page spectacular as Filler Bunny strains to entertain you.  Filler Bunny's sole purpose in life is to entertain the masses.  When he doesn't do just that, he's torchured and experimented on to help change his mind, either willingly or chemically.  Filler Bunny has moments of extreme bliss, followed by the sharp realization that the fragile world around him is collapsing and he is but a mere tool in making other people happy.  Injection!
    Drawn in a mere 24 hours, Fillerbunny lets you witness Jhonen Vasquez at his frenzied best as he struggles to met his own self-imposed deadline.

Invader ZIM
    Invader ZIM is an eccentric alien soldier from the planet Irk.  He was banished from the Irken Empire after nearly destroying his home planet on Operation Impending Doom I. After begging his superiors, the Almighty Tallest (Red and Purple), for another chance, they decide to get rid of him once and for all.  They trick him into going on a "secret mission" to a fictional planet on the outer edge of the known universe, in hopes that he'll die wandering in space.  But it just so happened there was a planet there, Earth.  Their trick backfires when ZIM safely reaches Earth and begins his ever-so-subtle conquest of it.  He disguises himself as a schoolboy, and now the only person who can stop him is one kid - Dib, a somewhat insane kid who aspires to be a paranormal researcher, who sees straight through ZIM's disguise and is intent on stopping his reign of "terror".  The only problem is that neither of them is very good at stopping the other.
    This was an odd affair, and by the time it was done, Jhonen pledged that he would rather shoot himself in the head rather than participate in animation again.  On the show Invader Zim, he did a few voices, but was listed in the credits under a pseudonym "Mr. Scolex."

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Immortalizing The Moment
Invader ZIM - TV Tome
The Scary Monkey Show Website- an Invader Zim fansite
A Closet with a Moose

TV Tome - Biography

RevolutionSF - Death and Morons: The Jhonen Vasquez Story