My "Blurb"

John Zakour is a humor / sf/ fantasy writer with a Master's degree in Human Behavior and slowly plugging away at his Ph.D. He has written zillions (well, thousands) of gags for syndicated comics and comedians (including: Rugrats, Grimmy, Marmaduke, 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.

John’s humorous SF mystery book, The Plutonium Blonde (DAW 2001, co-written with Larry Ganem) was named one of the top 30 SF books of 2001 by The Chronicle of Science Fiction. (The book is available in Russian, Chek.) His second novel, The Doomsday Brunette (DAW Feb 2004) has made the Locus best sellers list. The third book in the series, The RadioActive Redhead, will be released in December 2005. John’s humorous look at pregnancy: A Man's Guide To Pregnancy, is published by Metropolis Ink and available at Motherhood Maternity stores all of the country. The second book in the series, A Man’s Guide to Babies was released in June 2005. John has written 3 books on HTML (for Waite Press) and a number of Children’s books for a book packager. He’s also sold hundreds of greeting cards to pretty much every major greeting card company that buys material, including: Hallmark, Recycled Paper Products, Gibson and many others. John has sold two screenplays: Saucer Girls to Plutonium Films (though he’s sure it won’t ever get made) and the short feature A Date with Death that is being produced in England. John has also written and helped develop an animated sf horror series, called Prime Squad for MUV Technologies in India. John was also a multiple time finalist in the America’s Best Screenplay contest in three different divisions. Recently, he has written the dialog for Frogwares Software computer game Around the World in 80 days. John is now planning to work with them to develop a new game. John is also currently writing on an independent SF TV show, more details soon.

John use to be a database programmer / web guru / science writer for NYSAES.

When he's not writing or studying John likes to play softball, watch TV and hang out with his wife and son. He use to do judo and karate, but those have been replaced by tai chi and soon fencing.

In "action" on the softball field (with Tom Rickey in left and Ken Bell making the flip). Yes, he was out