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| − | Jeff was born in May 1967 in Montreal, Quebec. He discovered comics when he was 14. He ultimately ended up graduating from Concordia University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts | + | Jeff was born in May 1967 in Montreal, Quebec. He discovered comics when he was 14. He ultimately ended up graduating from Concordia University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Animation, having specifically focused on the screenwriting aspect. |
| − | + | That September, he co-founded [[Comicopia]], and is still a contributing member, with his newsletter [[The Old Detective's Watering Hole]] published in every issue to date. | |
| − | His life | + | His life underwent a change in 1996 when he became a 'recipient' of Multiple Sclerosis. It impacted his abilities to sing and dance, and around 1998 he stepped down as the figurehead distribution manager for [[Comicopia]], relinqiushing the title to [[Mike Aragona]], who had been fulfilling the duties of the position for years. Jeff's passion for writing endured and still does to this day. |
| − | His first major publication in the | + | ==Publications== |
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| + | His first major publication was in the role-playing game field. In 1995, he published the adventure/sourcebook "Crashpoint" for DreamPod 9 (then called Ianus Games). | ||
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| + | Starting in 1996 he began to write reviews and columns for fps: The Magazine of Animation (fps stands for frames per second, an animation term) and still does today. He also has written for the now-defunt publication RPG Gazette and the also long-defunct Web site RPG Action. | ||
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| + | In 2005, he was involved in three charity benefit e-books (one for the tsunami of 2004, two for the Hurricane Katrina disaster}, has written "Hunters Inc.", a sourcebook e-book for Cracked Mirror Publications (a second edition is slated to come out in 2006), and since 2002 he has been a victorious 1-month novelist with NaNoWriMo (the National Novel Writers Month, held each November). He also regularly submits short stories to various science fiction anthologies and magazines--so far unpublished--and he is involved in a few other zines. | ||
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| + | <!--NOTES TO EDITORS: some good examples of ZineWiki style in here. For the record, magazine titles are in plain text, book titles in quotation marks. For readability, simply uppercase the first letters of proper names (like publishing houses or Web sites) rather than setting them apart with emphases. Thanks much, admin Kate (kateeliza@gmail.com with questions. Also, didn't think it would come up much, but it seems to crop up more and more. Our style for RPGs is "role-playing games" as roleplaying is not a dictionary term. I know it's not gamer standard, but it's Webster's New World standard ;)--> | ||
==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
Revision as of 19:30, 13 July 2006
Jeffrey Allan Boman founded the Comicopia APA in 1990 when he'd just finished University. He actually was still sharing an apartment with his University roomate then. He created it along with interest from Ivan Raketik at a local comicbook store named Komico. Mike Aragona was also a founding member, and in the late 1990s Jeff passed the DM torch to him, and the APA thrived
Biography
Jeff was born in May 1967 in Montreal, Quebec. He discovered comics when he was 14. He ultimately ended up graduating from Concordia University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Animation, having specifically focused on the screenwriting aspect.
That September, he co-founded Comicopia, and is still a contributing member, with his newsletter The Old Detective's Watering Hole published in every issue to date.
His life underwent a change in 1996 when he became a 'recipient' of Multiple Sclerosis. It impacted his abilities to sing and dance, and around 1998 he stepped down as the figurehead distribution manager for Comicopia, relinqiushing the title to Mike Aragona, who had been fulfilling the duties of the position for years. Jeff's passion for writing endured and still does to this day.
Publications
His first major publication was in the role-playing game field. In 1995, he published the adventure/sourcebook "Crashpoint" for DreamPod 9 (then called Ianus Games).
Starting in 1996 he began to write reviews and columns for fps: The Magazine of Animation (fps stands for frames per second, an animation term) and still does today. He also has written for the now-defunt publication RPG Gazette and the also long-defunct Web site RPG Action.
In 2005, he was involved in three charity benefit e-books (one for the tsunami of 2004, two for the Hurricane Katrina disaster}, has written "Hunters Inc.", a sourcebook e-book for Cracked Mirror Publications (a second edition is slated to come out in 2006), and since 2002 he has been a victorious 1-month novelist with NaNoWriMo (the National Novel Writers Month, held each November). He also regularly submits short stories to various science fiction anthologies and magazines--so far unpublished--and he is involved in a few other zines.
Bibliography
Reviews
Articles
RPG Stuff
- Hunters Inc. for Cracked Mirror Productions (note: first edition no longer available)
