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Colin Upton

Colin Upton has been called the "King of Canadian mini-comics". After dropping out of art school in 1985, he self-published over 300 mini-comics and digests. He also created indie comics Big Thing, Buddha on the Road, Incubus and has appeared in numerous comics anthologies. Colin has written about comics, co-hosted two radio shows about comics, created award winning cartoon illustrations, concept art for a miniatures line, cartoons for a movie and for a play. When not creating comics, Colin performed in a garage band, Puke Theatre, and a noise band The Haters. He wargames, paints, collects stuff and creates assemblages for an art movement he created as a joke, Fraud Art. He lives on mental disability in Vancouver with his cat, Gojira.