Sex Criminals was declared number 1 on Time magazine's list of 'Top 10 Comics and Graphic Novels' of 2013. The first issue was released on September 23, 2013. In June 2013, Image Comics announced that Chip Zdarsky had teamed up with Invincible Iron Man and Hawkeye writer, Matt Fraction, on a new creator-owned series titled Sex Criminals. He was not an officially registered candidate, launching his satirical 'campaign' through social networking platforms after the deadline had passed to register as a candidate in the real campaign. In 2010, he also launched a mock campaign for mayor of Toronto. He also wrote another column in that paper, Tear Jerk, in which he reviewed films to see if they could actually make him 'weep like a baby'.Īlong 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. įrom 2008 to 2014, Murray penned and illustrated a weekly advice column for the National Post called 'Extremely Bad Advice'. No matter what, I'm going to mess things up.' Murray initially attempted to keep the identities separate and secret.

And that became a character.' He describes the character as 'an idiot who doesn't know what I'm doing.

About his alter ego, Murray said 'I wanted to have a sad-sack cartoonist persona that lives in his mom's basement, paints figurines for money, has restraining orders against him. In 2000, Murray created Chip Zdarsky as a pseudonym and alter ego for his persona as a comic book writer and illustrator, developing his own independent projects, such as Prison Funnies and Monster Cops (which can be read online or in print) as well as collaborating on a variety of projects, including Dark Horse Comics titles Fierce and Rumble Royale. Murray has illustrated for such clients as The Globe and Mail, New York magazine, CBC and Canadian Business. Steve Murray was born in Edmonton, Alberta and raised in Barrie, Ontario. Comics attributed to him include Howard the Duck, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Daredevil, Spider-Man: Life Story and Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow for Marvel Comics, Batman for DC Comics and Jughead for Archie Comics. He uses the Zdarsky pseudonym for comics-related work, using it to create Prison Funnies and Monster Cops and as artist and co-creator of Sex Criminals with writer Matt Fraction. He worked for National Post for over a decade, until 2014, as an illustrator and humorist (as Steve Murray) and wrote and illustrated a column called 'Extremely Bad Advice' for the paper as well as The Ampersand, the newspaper's pop culture section's online edition. He has also used the pseudonym Todd Diamonte. Steve Murray (born December 21, 1975), known by the pen-name Chip Zdarsky, is a Canadian comic book artist and writer, journalist, illustrator and designer.

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