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Jack Thompson<\/strong> was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2002. At the age of three, his family moved to Maryland, where he spent his childhood. From a young age, Jack was captivated by stories. Imagination and creativity took many different forms in his life, from doodling in class to making movies on the family camcorder with his siblings and young neighbors. Growing up with ADHD and severe social anxiety, he used art as an outlet to express himself when communication did not come easily to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Jack grew older and more sure of himself, he began exploring storytelling on a deeper level through local filmmaking classes and visual art programs. In 2024, he graduated from Chapman University in Orange, California with a BFA in Film Production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack has never tied himself down to one medium of expression. During his time at film school, he created a text-based video game, a variety of short horror films, analog horror projects, and a branching narrative project in which players can navigate the story on their own terms and achieve a variety of endings based on their decisions. Hellbent is his debut as a graphic novel writer and illustrator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jack Thompson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2002. At the age of three, his family moved to Maryland, where he spent his childhood. From a young age, Jack was captivated by stories. Imagination and creativity took many different forms in his life, from doodling in class to making movies on the family camcorder with his siblings and young neighbors. Growing up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t