Education
He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria.
He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria.
He was described by interviewees in the National Post as one of Canada"s "most under-appreciated comic artists working today". Dalton was inspired to create comics at an early age. In 2003 Dalton began writing his now-weekly science fiction webcomic A Mad Tea-Party.
He teaches elementary school in the town of Mission on the outskirts of Vancouver, British Columbia.
In 2010 Dalton won the Xeric Grant for his book Lords of Death and Life. 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 and the 2008 Fablewood anthology from Ape Entertainment. His 2009 short story "Lil" Ulysses in Chicago" was listed as a Notable Comic in the 2010 edition of Best American Comics.
