Jeph Jacques

Jeph Jacques, American author and illustrator

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Born: June 17, 1980
Age in 2026: 46
Zodiac sign: Gemini
Birth year: 1980

About Jeph Jacques

Jeffrey Paul "Jeph" Jacques ( JEF JAKS) (born June 17, 1980) is an American-Canadian cartoonist who writes and draws the webcomic Questionable Content. Jacques has formerly created the webcomics indietits from 2005 to 2007, Derelict Orbital Reflector Devices and Alice Grove. == Personal life == Jacques was born in Rockville, Maryland, and was later adopted. He has a younger brother named Justin. Jacques lived near Northampton, Massachusetts, where Questionable Content is set; in 2015, he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jacques graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music. He was married to his business manager Cristi until their amicable separation in 2014. In 2017, Jacques travelled to France and remarried. == Questionable Content == Questionable Content (QC) is a comedic slice-of-life webcomic that Jacques started on August 1, 2003. It was initially published two days a week, and then moved up to three updates a week when Jacques published strip #16.

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Career and life highlights

To further broaden his drawing limits, Jacques created Jephdraw to place unnamed drawings of his onto the Internet.
Jacques created the website as a piece of postmodernist "nonsense-art".
Jacques states that Deathmøle's style "...started out as a joke- I wanted to write and record a really stupid metal song... and it turned out to be really fun.

The world when Jeph Jacques was born

Jeph Jacques was born in 1980. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1980

#1 song"Call Me" – Blondie
Top movieOrdinary People
Top TV showDallas
Best-selling bookThe Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentMiracle on Ice — US hockey team beats the Soviets at Lake Placid
Top headlineJohn Lennon assassinated outside his New York apartment
Technology milestoneCNN launches as first 24-hour news channel
Defining fadRubik's Cube
Notable inventionPost-it Notes (officially released)
World population4.44 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderJimmy Carter
Sports championPhiladelphia Phillies (World Series)
Also wonLos Angeles Lakers (NBA)
U.S. population227.2M

1980 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Jeph Jacques's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1980	2026
Gas	$1.19	$3.45/gal
Average home	$68,700	$435,000
Average income	$21,023	$67,500
Minimum wage	$3.10	$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket	$2.69	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.15	$0.73
Population	227.2M	341 million

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