Mark Shainblum is a Montreal comic book and science fiction writer who has been active in both fields since the 1980’s.

In the early 80’s, Mark published two issues of a science fiction and comics fanzine called Orion: The Canadian Magazine of Time and Space, and later founded Matrix Graphic Series, one of only a handful of independent comic book publishers in Canada at the time. His published works include Northguard, a realistic superhero series, and the later Angloman, a humourous parody of superheroes, Canadian politics and everything in between. Northguard was published as a traditional black and white comic book, while Angloman was published in two paperback volumes Angloman: Making the World Safe for Apostrophes and Angloman 2: Money, Ethnics, Superheroes, from Nuage Editions, a mainstream literary publisher. It later became a weekly, oversize comic strip in the Montreal Gazette. Both series were co-created with Mark’s longtime collaborator, illustrator Gabriel Morrissette. Mark also wrote a number of series for other publishers, including an adaptation of Michael Moorcock’s Corum novels for First Comics.

With John Dupuis, Mark also co-edited the Aurora-award winning alternate history collection Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas, and has published prose science fiction in such markets as Would That It Were magazine, Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic and On Spec. He lives in Montreal with his wife, Andrea Lobel.

    JEFF ALWARD

Jeff Alward is drawer for money.  Comics, editorial cartoons, whatever.  He
lives in Prince Edward Island for some reason.