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Monique MacNaughton was born in Ottawa on June 15, 1965, to an RCAF photographer and homemaker and grew up in Nepean, Ontario on the capital city?s outskirts before moving with her family to Fredericton in 1978. After graduating with a B.A. from St. Thomas University, she went on to get a diploma in Communication Arts in the field of graphic design from NBCC Woodstock. She continues to live with her family in New Maryland, New Brunswick, doing freelance graphic work, contracting and portrait commissions in addition to her comics and graphic novels. Coydog Press is her personal imprint, graphically represented by a portrait of ?Jake?, a German Shepherd that lived in the MacNaughton household for many years. She has also worked on GAAK, an ongoing online comic which is a team project with writer Darryl Hughes of New York, the first volume of which has recently come out in print.

MacNaughton takes artistic cues from the greatest innovators in graphic storytelling - Will Eisner, Wally Wood, Hal Foster, Walt Kelly, Osamu Tezuka, Richard and Wendy Pini, Donna Barr and Scott MacLeod. In writing, her primary influences are Robert Heinlein, L. Neil Smith, Spider Robinson, J. Neil Schulman, Lois McMaster Bujold, Orson Scott Card, Harry Turtledove and C.J. Cherryh. Accordingly, science fiction is one of her primary areas of interest along with classic movies, folk music, technology, history, nature, animals and the advocacy for and preservation of individual rights and freedoms.