Jason Aaron (born January 28, 1973 in Jasper, Alabama) is an American comic book writer, known for his work on titles such as The Other Side, Scalped, Ghost Rider, Wolverine and PunisherMAX.
Jason was born in Jasper, Alabama. He graduated from Shelby County High School in Columbiana, Alabama and has a Bachelor's degree from UAB with a Major in English and a Minor in History.
In 2007, Aaron began writing for Marvel Comics with an extended run on Marvel's Ghost Rider, along with a Secret Invasion tie-in for Black Panther with David Lapham. The contract does not effect his work on Scalped, his creator-owned series for DC/Vertigo. He also wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film Wolverine. "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," says Aaron. In 2010, the series will be relaunched once again as simply Wolverine.
Aaron currently lives in Prairie Village, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City with his wife and two sons. Aaron is a cousin of Gustav Hasford, author of The Short-Timers, which was later adapted into the film Full Metal Jacket. Jason wrote The Other Side to honor Hasford.