JOHN ZAKOUR is a humor writer with a Master’s degree in Human Behavior. He has written zillions (well, thousands) of gags for syndicated comics and comedians (including Marmaduke, Rugrats, Grimmy, and Dennis the Menace, and Joan Rivers’ old TV show). John’s humorous SF 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. His second novel, The Doomsday Brunette (DAW, Feb. 2004), has made the Locus best seller’s list. John’s humorous look at pregnancy, A Man’s Guide To Pregnancy, is published by Metropolis Ink and selling well at Motherhood Maternity stores all over the country and in Canada.
      John is also a regular contributor to Nickelodeon magazine writing Fairly Odd Parents and Jimmy Neutron stories. John has written three 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 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 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.
      John lives in upstate New York with his wife, Olga, a professor at Cornell University, and his son, Jay. Back in the old days (the late 1990s) John worked as science writer/web guru for Cornell University. In the 1980s John was a freelance computer game programmer. John has also been an EMT and a judo instructor. He’s flexible and fast. Currently, just for fun, John is working on his Ph.D. in holistic nutrition. For fun John also enjoys the martial arts, softball, and just relaxing and watching TV.

When he’s not drawing cartoons, Working Daze co-author KYLE MILLER makes his living as a game designer. He may be best known for his work on Toon, The Cartoon Role-playing Game for Steve Jackson Games. While there, he also worked on Car Wars, GURPS, OGRE, Illuminati and Isaac Asimov’s Star Frontiers. Kyle was the sole designer and creative influence for the best selling 3D Ultra pinball series for Sierra games, which includes five titles for the PC, Macintosh, and the Gameboy. In addition to drawing cartoons and making games (too many to mention here) Kyle has also held jobs at a toy store, movie theatre, and even the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
      Kyle currently makes his home near Chicago, Illinois, where he lives with his wife of 18 years, his two children, and their dog (otherwise known as the fur distribution system). Kyle has heard many stories about spare time and is very interested in acquiring some for personal use.

WORKING DAZE 2.0
John Zakour
and Kyle Miller

ISBN 0-9751264-5-8
128 pages
$9.95

A MAN'S GUIDE
TO PREGNANCY
John Zakour

ISBN 0-9579528-5-6
60 pages
$9.95