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John Zakour is a humor / sf/ fantasy writer with a Master's degree in Human Behavior and slowly plugging away at his Ph.D. He has written zillions (well, thousands) of gags for syndicated comics and comedians (including: Rugrats, Grimmy, Bound and Gagged, Dennis the Menace and Joan River's old TV show.) John also writes his own syndicated comic, Working Daze for United Media. John has been the regular cartoonist for Geek.com and has sold cartoons or gags to hundreds of journals and magazines. John is also a contributor to Nickelodeon magazine writing Fairly Odd Parents and Jimmy Neutron comic books. Recently he has started writing Simpsons comics for Bongo.

John’s first humorous SF mystery book, The Plutonium Blonde was named one of the top 30 SF books of 2001 by The Chronicle of Science Fiction who called it, “the funniest SF book of 2001”.  His second novel, The Doomsday Brunette has made the Locus best sellers list.  The third book in the series, The RadioActive Redhead, was released December 6th, 2005 and also made the SF best seller list.  The fourth novel, The Frost Haired Vixen (the first written alone) was released December 2006.     The next book, The Blue-Haired Bombshell was released in December 2007.  John is has sold two YA novels: Baxter Moon, Galactic Scout and Iz.  Besides his novels John has sold numerous short stories to anthologies and magazines.  The most prestigious recent publication being a short story in a July issue of Nature.

Photo is John Zakour and Larry Ganem signing at WorldCon.