Comic artist-writer Jason Pearson, creator of the Body Bags franchise, passed away of natural causes on December 19, 2022. His family announced his death on Tuesday, January 19, 2023. He was 52 years old.

Pearson’s mainstream comics career began with a back-up story in Legion of Super-Heroes in 1991, which led to more work on the title. He also worked on other DC titles, as well as Marvel and Image Comics on comics like Starman, Green Lantern Crops Quarterly, Namor, the Sub-Mariner, Uncanny X-Men, and Vanguard, among others.

He was one of the original members of Atlanta’s Gaijin Studios, and the creator of Body Bags, a story about a father/daughter bounty hunting team in the near future. It was picked up at Dark Horse for a four-issue miniseries under their Blanc Noir imprint.

In 2005, 12 Gauge Comics reprinted Body Bags and then released the next installment, Body Bags: 3 The Hard Way, then a few years later, Pearson released the Body Bags: One Shot special.

He also did short stories for America’s Best Comics and Wildstorm, drew the Joker’s Asylum: Penguin one-shot, and worked on comics featuring Spider-Man, Deadpool, X-Men, Batman, and the Punisher.