Jan Lucanus

Jan Lucanus
Jan Lucanus announcing a feature film and animated series deal for the comic book property "JFH: Justice For Hire" at San Diego Comic Con's Superhero Kung Fu Extravaganza 2012. Animation partner Zach Shelton on left. Host Ric Meyers on right.
Born	New York City, New York
Style	Tai Chi Chuan, Mixed martial arts
Teacher(s)	Jan C. Childress, Keith Tong, Josh Waitzkin, William C. C. Chen, John Machado, David Ross
Rank	Taiwan 2010 Tai Chi World Cup - Push Hands Silver Medalist 75kg, ICMAC 2010 Ranked #1 Men's Fixed Step Push Hands <200lb., ICMAC 2005 2x Gold Medalist Men's Push Hands Fixed & Restricted Step, Chung Hwa Tai Chi World Cup 2004 Ranked #4 Men's Moving Step Push Hands 75kg and won Gold International Competitor Cup 75kg.
Years active	1999–present
Occupation	Comic book writer, filmmaker, Martial Artist, singer, rapper
Spouse	Aurore Barry (m. 2012)
Children	Jet Barry Lucanus
Website	www.janlucanus.com

Jan Lucanus is an American comic book writer, filmmaker, martial artist, musical artist, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the transmedia company Creative Impulse Entertainment, Inc., co-creator/co-writer of the mixed martial arts comic books series, JFH: Justice For Hire, is an award-winning filmmaker, an international martial arts champion in both the full contact sport of San Shou and the sport of Tai Chi Push Hands, and is a rapper/singer/songwriter. Lucanus also consults on business, production, and creative strategies for companies and individuals across comics, film, television, music, and games. He is a graduate of the New York University Maurice Kanbar Institute for Film & Television, Tisch School of the Arts, holding a degree in Film Production.

As a transmedia artist, Lucanus has been called a "martial arts comic book prodigy" and an "entertainment renaissance man" for his work combining comic books, film, animation, and music, most notably for the JFH: Justice For Hire entertainment property. Comic book legend Neal Adams was quoted on interview with iFanboy stating, "Understand we've got new people doing new things – Jan is an example of that... There's a new interrelationship between the forms that's beginning to develop from comic books to motion comics to film and television. Those of us who are aware of it are going to be involved in making entertainment from beginning to end".

Lucanus' childhood saw his father, Jan C. Childress, writing as a contributing journalist for several "Zines" (fan-created magazines) including the Marvel Zombie Society comic, publications such as The Overstreet Comic Book Monthly (an offshoot of Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide) and Comic Critics Calvacade, and writing The Good Guys (comics) monthly series for Jim Shooter's Defiant Comics. Lucanus' father wrote the original script for the comic series, JFH: Justice For Hire, based on Lucanus' series of shorts in film school. The original "JFH" comic script was adapted into a feature film screenplay by Lucanus and his writing partners Mercer Boffey and Banyan Williamson-Masuda, then re-adapted back into a comic script for cinematic clarity. This marked the beginning of a project development model for Lucanus' company, Creative Impulse Entertainment (CIE) a method of sourcing and developing comic book content prime for film and television, inspiring the young filmmaker to call upon his father and several creative partners to create comic books ideas to be moved into production via a new CIE subsidiary, Creative Impulse Publishing, which officially launched in 2007.