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Chip Zdarsky Born Steven Murray
December 21, 1975
Barrie, Ontario, CanadaArea(s) Artist Notable works Prison Funnies, Monster Cops, Extremely Bad Advice Chip Zdarsky is a Canadian comic book artist and journalist. He was born Steve Murray but is known by his fan base as Chip Zdarsky, and occasionally Todd Diamond. He writes and illustrates an advice column called Extremely Bad Advice for the Canadian national newspaper National Post's The Ampersand, their pop culture section's online edition. He is also the creator of Prison Funnies[1] and Monster Cops.
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Biography
Chip Zdarsky has been involved in the Toronto comic scene for ten years. Having started as an erstwhile illustrator, and comics creator working on his own comics, such as Prison Funnies and Monster Cops (which can be read online or in print), Zdarsky has collaborated on a variety of projects, including Dark Horse Comics' Fierce and Rumble Royale. He currently pens and illustrates a weekly advice column for the National Post called Extremely Bad Advice, as well as another column, Tear Jerk, in which he reviews films for their ability to make him "weep like a baby."
Along with Kagan McLeod, Ben Shannon, and Cameron Stewart, he is a co-founder of the studio The Royal Academy of Illustration and Design, which produced Rumble Royale.
In 2010, he also launched a mock campaign for Mayor of Toronto. He was not a real registered candidate, launching his satirical "campaign" through social networking platforms after the deadline had passed to register as a candidate in the real campaign.[1]
Bibliography
Comics work includes:
Collected Prison Funnies (2001)
Rumble Royale #1 (2003)
Vampirella Comics Magazine #7 (2004)
Comic Festival! Free Comic Book Day (2005)
Chip Zdarsky's Monster Cops (2006)
Drawing the Line #2 (2006)
Comic Festival! Free Comic Book Day (2007)
Prison Funnies #3 (2009)
Comic Festival! Free Comic Book Day (2009)
Extremely Bad Advice articles:
I Can't Always Be There For You [2]
Easy Bake Lovin' [3]
Queen of Tarts, Prints of Wails [4]
Plato Can Suck It [5]
Ditching For the Other Team [6]
Todd Diamond "Finansense"
A series of five recession-oriented video blogs satirising financial advisors were created featuring Murray as Todd Diamond. These were followed up with a three-part series on using and understanding Twitter. They can be found on the National Post website [7], and also on YouTube.[8]
Episode 1: Money [9] Episode 2: Oil [10] Episode 3: Bailouts [11] Episode 4: Retirement [12] Episode 5: Economic Stimulation [13]
Episode 6: Twitter, part one [14] Episode 7: Twitter, part two [15] Episode 8: Twitter, part three [16]
References
- ^ "Steve Murray Hates Toronto, and Wants to Be Your Mayor". Torontoist, October 1, 2010.
- Chip Zdarsky at the Comic Book DB
- 365 Reasons to Love Comics #117: Chip Zdarsky
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Interviews
Categories:- 1975 births
- Canadian comics artists
- Canadian editorial cartoonists
- Canadian satirists
- Artists from Ontario
- People from Barrie
- People from Toronto
- Living people
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