Mark Shainblum

Mark Shainblum is a Ottawa-based science fiction, fantasy and comic book writer. His prose fiction has appeared in magazines like On Spec, Would That It Were, Thousand Faces and the anthology Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic. In 1997 Mark and John Dupuis co-edited the Aurora Award-winning alternate history book Arrowdeams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas, published by Signature Editions.

In comics Mark wrote adaptations of Michael Moorcock's classic Corum novels for First Comics in collaboration with Ken Hooper and Jill Thompson, and also wrote and co-created the critically acclaimed independent superhero series Northguard with Gabriel Morrissette. In a slightly different comics domain, Mark is well-known in Canada as the co-creator of Angloman, a political parody series first published by Signature Editions in two bestselling books. Angloman later appeared as a weekly comic strip in the Montreal Gazette.

Mark has also worked as a literary columnist, a technology journalist and a media relations officer for a major Canadian university.

In the real world, Mark is husband to Andrea, and daddy to Maya.

Mark's website: www.northguard.com/mbs