Career
Though he has worked as a journalist and editor, Shainblum is best known as a science fiction and comic book writer In the early 1980s, Shainblum published two issues of a comics and science fiction fanzine called Orion: The Canadian Magazine of Time and Space, and later founded Matrix Graphic Series (later known as Matrix Comics), one of only a handful of independent comic book publishers in Canada at the time. His published works include:
Northguard, a post-modern Canadian superhero, created in the 1980s with illustrator Gabriel Morrissette.
The Quebec superheroine Fleur-de-Lys, a supporting character from the series, even made her way to a Canadian postage stamp in 1995.
Angloman, co-created with Gabriel Morrissette. A humorous parody of politics in Shainblum"s native province of Quebec, Angloman was first published in book form and then made the leap to two Montreal newspapers, the alternative newsweekly Montreal Mirror and the mass-circulation daily Montreal Gazette.
Shainblum was also a finalist in the 2001 international Mark Twain Writing Competition and recently published a story in Claude Lalumière"s anthology Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic from Vehicule Press. In 2002-2003, he served as president of San Francisco Canada, Canada"s national association of science fiction and fantasy authors.
Shainblum is collaborating on two webcomics projects: with artist Sandy Carruthers on a super-hero genre webcomic project entitled Canadiana, and on a mystery serial, The Haunting of MacGrath with artist Jeff Alward.
He also works as a communications and media relations professional. Shainblum"s great-uncle Yechiel (Eli) Shainblum was also well known in Montreal as a painter, sculptor and teacher.
