Jonathon Dalton

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Jonathon Dalton
Jonathon Dalton at Stumptown Comics Fest 2009.jpg
Dalton at Stumptown Comics Fest, 2009
Born (1977-09-16) September 16, 1977 (age 46)
Canada
OccupationComic writer, Illustrator, elementary teacher
Period1997–present
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction
Notable worksA Mad Tea Party, Lords of Death and Life
Notable awards 2010 Xeric Award
Website
jonathondalton.com

Jonathon Dalton (born September 16, 1977) is a Canadian artist specializing in comics and webcomics. Dalton created the webcomics A Mad Tea-Party and Lords of Death and Life, and co-founded the Vancouver-based comics society Cloudscape Comics.

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Beginnings

Dalton was inspired to create comics at an early age. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University 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 webcomic A Mad Tea-Party. [2] He teaches elementary school in the town of Mission on the outskirts of Vancouver, British Columbia. [3] He is the director of communications [4] and co-founder of the Vancouver-based comics society entitled Cloudscape Comics.

Achievements

In 2010 Dalton won the Xeric Grant for his book Lords of Death and Life. [5] Lords of Death and Life was also nominated for Outstanding Environment Design in the 2007 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards. The following year, in 2008, he was presented with the award for Outstanding Long Form Comic. Dalton's work has been published in Cloudscape anthologies [6] and the 2008 Fablewood anthology from Ape Entertainment. [7] His 2009 short story "Lil' Ulysses in Chicago" was listed as a Notable Comic in the 2010 edition of Best American Comics. [8] [9]

In 2010, he was described by interviewees in the National Post as one of Canada's "most under-appreciated comic artists working today". [10] [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Klingelhoets, Allen (October 14, 2007). "Interview with Jonathon Dalton". Jazma Online Interviews. Jazma Online. Archived from the original on January 20, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  2. ↑ de Vlaming, Kevin (July 14, 2010). "Artist Interview: Jonathon Dalton of a Mad Tea-Party and Lords of Death and Life". The Fabler Blog. The Fabler. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  3. ↑ Boyd, Kevin (March 3, 2010). "Visions of an Icon: Wolverine and Jubilee by Jonathon Dalton". The Joe Shuster Awards. Joe Shuster Awards . Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ "About – Cloudscape Comics". Cloudscape Comics. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Xeric Foundation Self-Publishing Grants for 2010". Xeric Foundation. Archived from the original on July 29, 2010. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Jonathon Dalton's biography". Cloudscape Comics.
  7. ↑ "Fablewood Anthology – Table of Contents". Fablewood Anthology. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  8. ↑ "The Best American Comics 2010 Details Page". The Best American Comics.
  9. ↑ Abel, Jessica (February 15, 2011). "Notables 2010: Jonathon Dalton". Drawing Words and Writing Pictures. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  10. ↑ Mark Medley (May 7, 2010). "Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2010: Jeff Ellis, Cloudscape Comics Collective". Arts > Afterword > Book Reviews. National Post. Postmedia Network. ISSN   1486-8008. Archived from the original on March 13, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2014. 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
  11. ↑ Mark Medley (May 3, 2010). "Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2010: Miriam Libicki". National Post. Retrieved July 15, 2011. 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.[ permanent dead link ]
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