Jonathon Dalton | |
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 Dalton at Stumptown Comics Fest, 2009 | |
| Born | (1977-09-16)September 16, 1977 (age 48) |
| Occupation | Comic writer, Illustrator, elementary teacher |
| Period | 1997–present |
| Genre | Science fiction,fantasy,speculative fiction |
| Notable works | A Mad Tea Party, Lords of Death and Life |
| Notable awards | 2010 Xeric Award |
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Jonathon Dalton (born September 16, 1977) is a Canadian artist specializing incomics andwebcomics. Dalton created the webcomicsA Mad Tea-Party andLords of Death and Life, and co-founded theVancouver-based comics society Cloudscape Comics.
Dalton was inspired to create comics at an early age. He earned aBachelor of Fine Arts from theUniversity of Victoria.
Almost as soon as I started reading comic books I decided that making them was what I wanted to do for a living. The trouble was, I was determined to draw my own strange stories in my own style rather than learn the style preferred by the Big Two. Periodic rejection letters over the years failed to convince me to change my ways. When web comics started to multiply on the internet I threw myself wholeheartedly into that world.[1]
In 2003 Dalton began writing his weekly science fiction webcomicA Mad Tea-Party.[2] He teaches elementary school in the town ofMission on the outskirts ofVancouver, British Columbia.[3] He is the director of communications[4] and co-founder of the Vancouver-based comics society entitled Cloudscape Comics.
In 2010 Dalton won theXeric Grant for his bookLords of Death and Life.[5]Lords of Death and Life was also nominated for Outstanding Environment Design in the 2007Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards. The following year, in2008, he was presented with the award for Outstanding Long Form Comic. Dalton's work has been published inCloudscape anthologies[6] and the 2008Fablewood anthology fromApe Entertainment.[7] His 2009 short story "Lil' Ulysses in Chicago" was listed as a Notable Comic in the 2010 edition ofBest American Comics.[8][9]
In 2010, he was described by interviewees in theNational Post as one of Canada's "most under-appreciated comic artists working today".[10][11]
Who's the most under-appreciated comic artist working today? My friend Jonathon Dalton, that guys a machine! Plus he has some really interesting stories to tell. Mad Tea Party, Lords of Death and Life, plus all his work for Cloudscape. I'm excited for him to start work on Maida Kilwah
Who's the most under-appreciated comic artist working today? I'm not sure what that means. The artist whose work I can't get enough of, & whom hardly anyone has heard of (yet) is my fellow Vancouverite Jonathon Dalton. He won't be at the con, but he has work in the Cloudscape collective's anthologies, who are exhibiting.[dead link]
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