John Zakour

John Zakour is a humor/sf/fantasy writer with a Master's degree in Human Behavior and slowly plugging away at his Ph.D. Born in upstate New York, he is a graduate of the State University of New York at Potsdam. Before becoming a writer he worked for many years as a database programmer/Web guy for the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, which is part of Cornell University. He has also been an Emergency Medical Technician and a judo instructor. 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.