Graphic Novel Writer | Jason Viola Comics

Cover of Science Comics: Elephants: Living Large by Jason Viola and Falynn Koch, with the series tagline "Get to Know Your Universe!" A herd of cartoon elephants walks down a sunlit dirt path toward the viewer, framed by green trees and bushes. The elephants come in different sizes and shades of gray and blue, some with long curved tusks and some with short ones. A small calf with a happy expression trots alongside an adult near the middle of the herd, and a large, shadowy elephant looms faintly in the background behind the title.

Cover of Science Comics: The Digestive System: A Tour Through Your Guts by Jason Viola and Andy Ristaino, with the series tagline "Get to Know Your Universe!" A cheerful yellow bacterium with wiggly tails holds a pointer and teaches in front of a large diagram of the digestive system, showing the liver, gallbladder, stomach, pancreas, and small and large intestines. Seated at school desks facing the diagram are food students: a spotted banana doodling on paper, an orange squash seen from behind, and a stalk of broccoli whose paper reads "Enzyms Rule." The classroom sits inside the pink, bumpy lining of the intestine, with a stream of fluid winding through the background.

Cover of Science Comics: Polar Bears: Survival on the Ice by Jason Viola and Zack Giallongo, with the series tagline "Get to Know Your Universe!" Two playful polar bear cubs tumble down a snowy slope on their backs, paws in the air and snow flying, one grinning and the other laughing with its mouth open. Behind them, an adult polar bear stands calmly on the ridge, gazing into the distance. The night sky glows with green and purple northern lights and scattered stars, and two seals peek over an icy ledge in the upper left corner.

Cover of History Comics: The Prohibition Era: America's War on Alcohol by Jason Viola and Roger Langridge. The top half shows a city street of brick buildings, where temperance crusader Carry Nation, in a black shawl and glasses, grips a hatchet and stands nose to nose with a scowling Al Capone in a white fedora and green overcoat. Behind her, cheering women carry a "Votes for Women" sign, and behind him, a man in a trench coat and hat holds up a badge. The bottom half shows a nighttime harbor, where a man on the deck of a large dark ship lowers a wooden crate on a rope to two men waiting in a small boat already loaded with more crates.

Cover of Secret STEAM Society: Mushrooms by Viola and Retherford, published by Papercutz. Four adventurers in colorful exploration suits stand among towering, rippled mushroom gills in shades of tan and orange: a woman in a pink-and-purple suit, a blond boy in blue and orange, a younger boy crouching in the center, and a small teal alien with big eyes. Below them, glowing purple mushrooms and branching fungal threads spread across the ground.

Jason Viola writes comics about mammals and microbes.

Jason began drawing comics soon after he learned how to hold a pencil. Finding inspiration from biology and through the lens of pop culture, the educational books he writes teach science and history with a modern, satiric twist.

A co-founder of the Boston Comic Arts Foundation, Jason lives outside Boston. If you are interested in having him visit your school or attend an event, you can get in touch with him here.