Max Douglas
Encyclopedia
Max Douglas is a Canadian
comic book creator
. Since approximately 1996, he has worked under the pen name of Salgood Sam which is derived from a reverse spelling of his name.
s, Douglas had his first credited published art in a co-created black-and-white comic book for Caliber Comics
, Nature of the Beast. Shortly afterward, in 1992, Douglas started working at Marvel Comics
on Clive Barker
's Nightbreed
#20, from the company's Epic Comics
imprint
.
After that he was hired to draw Nightbreed #23, and then assigned Saint Sinner
, a new title under the short-lived Razorline
imprint, created for Marvel by Clive Barker
. Douglas designed the characters, penciled and inked the first four issues of the title, and collaborated on the series until issue #5. For Marvel he also worked on Morbius, the Living Vampire
#25, a 10-page story titled "Drainage System", scripted by Karl Bollers; Dr. Strange
#63, "Song of the Blood Opal", by David Quinn; and a Spider-Man 2099
story in 2099 Unlimited #8.
He drew the DC Comics
character Bloodwynd
in Showcase '94 #5 (May 1994), before switching to animation for work during much of the latter 1990s, working at Nelvana
in Toronto, and CinéGroupe
in Montreal. In the mid-1990s, he also started to sign his art Salgood Sam, a pen name
based on the mirror image of his given name.
In 2000,, under the pseudonym Salgood Sam, Douglas' art appeared in Real Worlds: Wonder Woman
Vs. the Red Menace, and Muties
#6. Shortly afterward, he worked as an inker on Goran Parlov's pencils for Terminator 3: Before the Rise, published by Beckett Comics
.
Douglas then self-published the comic Revolver One in late 2004. It was nominated for Best Emerging Artist by the Doug Wright Awards
the following year. Douglas then teamed with Kieron Dwyer
and Rick Remender
to create Sea of Red
, a monthly series from Image Comics
. In early 2006, Douglas contributed art to Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, published by Mr. Comics.
In 2007, he drew Therefore Repent!
, a graphic novel written by Jim Munroe
, published by No Media Kings in Canada and IDW Publishing
in the US.
In 2008 he contributed to Comic Book Tattoo
, an anthology comic book of stories based on or inspired by songs by American singer-songwriter
Tori Amos
, published by Image Comics
.
From the mid- to late-2000s, Douglas posted art from a planned graphic novel, Dream Life on his site and a live journal blog dedicated to the project. Recently Dream Life has become part of the line up at Transmission X.
In 2009, he illustrated the story "Widows", written by Rantz Hoseley, in Awesome 2: Awesomer, an anthology published by Top Shelf Productions
in support of a student scholarship for the Center for Cartoon Studies
. He's listed as a contributor to the upcoming Popgun
4, and has posted mention of work on an upcoming Ghostbusters
comic in 2010 on his blog.
Douglas also dabbles in comics journalism, publishing a comics site dedicated Canadian centric news, called Sequential.
Max Douglas (born September 15, 1970) is a Canadian
comic book creator
. Since approximately 1996, he has worked under the pen name of Salgood Sam which is derived from a reverse spelling of his name.
s, Douglas had his first credited published art in a co-created black-and-white comic book for Caliber Comics
, Nature of the Beast. Shortly afterward, in 1992, Douglas started working at Marvel Comics
on Clive Barker
's Nightbreed
#20, from the company's Epic Comics
imprint
.
After that he was hired to draw Nightbreed #23, and then assigned Saint Sinner
, a new title under the short-lived Razorline
imprint, created for Marvel by Clive Barker
. Douglas designed the characters, penciled and inked the first four issues of the title, and collaborated on the series until issue #5. For Marvel he also worked on Morbius, the Living Vampire
#25, a 10-page story titled "Drainage System", scripted by Karl Bollers; Dr. Strange
#63, "Song of the Blood Opal", by David Quinn; and a Spider-Man 2099
story in 2099 Unlimited #8.
He drew the DC Comics
character Bloodwynd
in Showcase '94 #5 (May 1994), before switching to animation for work during much of the latter 1990s, working at Nelvana
in Toronto, and CinéGroupe
in Montreal. In the mid-1990s, he also started to sign his art Salgood Sam, a pen name
based on the mirror image of his given name.
In 2000,, under the pseudonym Salgood Sam, Douglas' art appeared in Real Worlds: Wonder Woman
Vs. the Red Menace, and Muties
#6. Shortly afterward, he worked as an inker on Goran Parlov's pencils for Terminator 3: Before the Rise, published by Beckett Comics
.
Douglas then self-published the comic Revolver One in late 2004. It was nominated for Best Emerging Artist by the Doug Wright Awards
the following year. Douglas then teamed with Kieron Dwyer
and Rick Remender
to create Sea of Red
, a monthly series from Image Comics
. In early 2006, Douglas contributed art to Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, published by Mr. Comics.
In 2007, he drew Therefore Repent!
, a graphic novel written by Jim Munroe
, published by No Media Kings in Canada and IDW Publishing
in the US.
In 2008 he contributed to Comic Book Tattoo
, an anthology comic book of stories based on or inspired by songs by American singer-songwriter
Tori Amos
, published by Image Comics
.
From the mid- to late-2000s, Douglas posted art from a planned graphic novel, Dream Life on his site and a live journal blog dedicated to the project. Recently Dream Life has become part of the line up at Transmission X.
In 2009, he illustrated the story "Widows", written by Rantz Hoseley, in Awesome 2: Awesomer, an anthology published by Top Shelf Productions
in support of a student scholarship for the Center for Cartoon Studies
. He's listed as a contributor to the upcoming Popgun
4, and has posted mention of work on an upcoming Ghostbusters
comic in 2010 on his blog.
Douglas also dabbles in comics journalism, publishing a comics site dedicated Canadian centric news, called Sequential.
Max Douglas (born September 15, 1970) is a Canadian
comic book creator
. Since approximately 1996, he has worked under the pen name of Salgood Sam which is derived from a reverse spelling of his name.
s, Douglas had his first credited published art in a co-created black-and-white comic book for Caliber Comics
, Nature of the Beast. Shortly afterward, in 1992, Douglas started working at Marvel Comics
on Clive Barker
's Nightbreed
#20, from the company's Epic Comics
imprint
.
After that he was hired to draw Nightbreed #23, and then assigned Saint Sinner
, a new title under the short-lived Razorline
imprint, created for Marvel by Clive Barker
. Douglas designed the characters, penciled and inked the first four issues of the title, and collaborated on the series until issue #5. For Marvel he also worked on Morbius, the Living Vampire
#25, a 10-page story titled "Drainage System", scripted by Karl Bollers; Dr. Strange
#63, "Song of the Blood Opal", by David Quinn; and a Spider-Man 2099
story in 2099 Unlimited #8.
He drew the DC Comics
character Bloodwynd
in Showcase '94 #5 (May 1994), before switching to animation for work during much of the latter 1990s, working at Nelvana
in Toronto, and CinéGroupe
in Montreal. In the mid-1990s, he also started to sign his art Salgood Sam, a pen name
based on the mirror image of his given name.
In 2000,, under the pseudonym Salgood Sam, Douglas' art appeared in Real Worlds: Wonder Woman
Vs. the Red Menace, and Muties
#6. Shortly afterward, he worked as an inker on Goran Parlov's pencils for Terminator 3: Before the Rise, published by Beckett Comics
.
Douglas then self-published the comic Revolver One in late 2004. It was nominated for Best Emerging Artist by the Doug Wright Awards
the following year. Douglas then teamed with Kieron Dwyer
and Rick Remender
to create Sea of Red
, a monthly series from Image Comics
. In early 2006, Douglas contributed art to Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, published by Mr. Comics.
In 2007, he drew Therefore Repent!
, a graphic novel written by Jim Munroe
, published by No Media Kings in Canada and IDW Publishing
in the US.
In 2008 he contributed to Comic Book Tattoo
, an anthology comic book of stories based on or inspired by songs by American singer-songwriter
Tori Amos
, published by Image Comics
.
From the mid- to late-2000s, Douglas posted art from a planned graphic novel, Dream Life on his site and a live journal blog dedicated to the project. Recently Dream Life has become part of the line up at Transmission X.
In 2009, he illustrated the story "Widows", written by Rantz Hoseley, in Awesome 2: Awesomer, an anthology published by Top Shelf Productions
in support of a student scholarship for the Center for Cartoon Studies
. He's listed as a contributor to the upcoming Popgun
4, and has posted mention of work on an upcoming Ghostbusters
comic in 2010 on his blog.
Douglas also dabbles in comics journalism, publishing a comics site dedicated Canadian centric news, called Sequential.
People of Canada
Canadians are the people who are identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be genetic, residential, legal, historical, cultural or ethnic...
comic book creator
Comic book creator
A comic book creator is someone who creates a comic book or graphic novel.The production of a comic book by one of the major comic book companies in the U.S...
. Since approximately 1996, he has worked under the pen name of Salgood Sam which is derived from a reverse spelling of his name.
Biography
After spending his late teens drawing zineZine
A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....
s, Douglas had his first credited published art in a co-created black-and-white comic book for Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics or Caliber Press was an American comic book publisher founded in 1989 by Gary Reed. Featuring primarily creator-owned comics, in the next decade Caliber published over 1300 comics and ranked as one of the America's leading independent publishers...
, Nature of the Beast. Shortly afterward, in 1992, Douglas started working at Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
on Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
's Nightbreed
Nightbreed
Nightbreed is a 1990 American fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella Cabal. The film features Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby and David Cronenberg. The story centers in a community of mutant outcasts that hides from humanity, known as the...
#20, from the company's Epic Comics
Epic Comics
Epic Comics was a creator-owned imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982, lasting through the mid-1990s, and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s.- Origins :...
imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
.
After that he was hired to draw Nightbreed #23, and then assigned Saint Sinner
Saint Sinner
Saint Sinner may refer to:*Saint Sinner , a comic book series published by Marvel Comics and created by Clive Barker*Saint Sinner , a television movie also created by Clive Barker...
, a new title under the short-lived Razorline
Razorline
Razorline was an imprint of American comic book company Marvel Comics that ran from 1993-1995. It was created by filmmaker and horror/fantasy novelist Clive Barker, with its characters existing in one of the many alternate universes outside the mainstream continuity known as the Marvel...
imprint, created for Marvel by Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
. Douglas designed the characters, penciled and inked the first four issues of the title, and collaborated on the series until issue #5. For Marvel he also worked on Morbius, the Living Vampire
Morbius, the Living Vampire
Morbius, the Living Vampire, is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane, the character, a living human suffering from vampiric abilities resulting from scientific rather than supernatural means, first appeared as...
#25, a 10-page story titled "Drainage System", scripted by Karl Bollers; Dr. Strange
Doctor Strange
Doctor Stephen Strange is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was co-created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, and first appeared in Strange Tales #110 ....
#63, "Song of the Blood Opal", by David Quinn; and a Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Man 2099 is a fictional comic book superhero, created by Peter David and Rick Leonardi in 1992 for Marvel Comics' Marvel 2099 line. His secret alter ego is Miguel O'Hara, a brilliant geneticist living in New York in the year 2099 A.D...
story in 2099 Unlimited #8.
He drew the DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
character Bloodwynd
Bloodwynd
Bloodwynd is a fictional necromancer published by DC Comics. He first appears in Justice League America #61 , and was created by Dan Jurgens.-Fictional character biography:...
in Showcase '94 #5 (May 1994), before switching to animation for work during much of the latter 1990s, working at Nelvana
Nelvana
Nelvana Limited is a Canadian entertainment company founded in 1971 known for its work in children's animation. It was named by founders Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith after a Canadian comic book superheroine created by Adrian Dingle in the 1940s...
in Toronto, and CinéGroupe
CinéGroupe
CinéGroupe Corporation is a Canadian animation studio based in Montreal, Quebec. The company also has offices in nearby Toronto and in the U.S. city of Los Angeles...
in Montreal. In the mid-1990s, he also started to sign his art Salgood Sam, a pen name
Pen name
A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
based on the mirror image of his given name.
In 2000,, under the pseudonym Salgood Sam, Douglas' art appeared in Real Worlds: Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....
Vs. the Red Menace, and Muties
Muties
Muties was a six issue miniseries from Marvel ComicsIt focused on six different Mutants, and each story was essentially self contained. The miniseries was supposed to show the day-to-day sufferings of mutants, not just those that managed to find their way to the X-Men and Charles Xavier...
#6. Shortly afterward, he worked as an inker on Goran Parlov's pencils for Terminator 3: Before the Rise, published by Beckett Comics
Beckett Comics
Beckett Comics started as a comic book-publishing imprint of Beckett Publications. It was founded in 2003. Originally, all of its titles were sold at a lower price than their competition...
.
Douglas then self-published the comic Revolver One in late 2004. It was nominated for Best Emerging Artist by the Doug Wright Awards
Doug Wright Awards
The Doug Wright Awards are literary awards handed out annually to Canadian cartoonists, honouring excellence in works published in English. The awards are named for Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright...
the following year. Douglas then teamed with Kieron Dwyer
Kieron Dwyer
Kieron Dwyer is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his work on Captain America vol. 1 , Danger Unlimited , Action Comics , Avengers Kieron Dwyer (born March 6, 1967) is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his...
and Rick Remender
Rick Remender
Rick Remender is an American comic book writer and artist who resides in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Punisher series, as well as Fear Agent, Uncanny X-Force, and Venom.-Career:...
to create Sea of Red
Sea of Red
Sea of Red is a comic book series about 16th century vampire pirates which was published from 2005 to 2006 by Image Comics. The series was written by Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer and drawn by Salgood Sam and Paul Harmon.-Collected editions:...
, a monthly series from Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
. In early 2006, Douglas contributed art to Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, published by Mr. Comics.
In 2007, he drew Therefore Repent!
Therefore Repent!
Therefore Repent! is a bestselling Canadian graphic novel written by anarchist freelance writer Jim Munroe and illustrated by Salgood Sam. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago neighbourhood after the predictions of Christian fundamentalists concerning the Rapture have come true, the righteous...
, a graphic novel written by Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe is a Canadian science fiction author, who publishes his works independently under the imprint No Media Kings.Munroe was managing editor at the magazine Adbusters in the 1990s, before publishing his debut novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask in 1999...
, published by No Media Kings in Canada and IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...
in the US.
In 2008 he contributed to Comic Book Tattoo
Comic Book Tattoo
Comic Book Tattoo is an Eisner Award and Harvey Award-winning anthology graphic novel made up of fifty-one stories, each based on or inspired by a song by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, published by Image Comics in 2008. Rantz Hoseley, longtime friend of Amos, served as the book's editor....
, an anthology comic book of stories based on or inspired by songs by American singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
, published by Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
.
From the mid- to late-2000s, Douglas posted art from a planned graphic novel, Dream Life on his site and a live journal blog dedicated to the project. Recently Dream Life has become part of the line up at Transmission X.
In 2009, he illustrated the story "Widows", written by Rantz Hoseley, in Awesome 2: Awesomer, an anthology published by Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions is an American publishing company founded in 1997, owned and operated by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock and a small staff. The company is based in Marietta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, and New York City, New York....
in support of a student scholarship for the Center for Cartoon Studies
Center for Cartoon Studies
The Center for Cartoon Studies is a two year institution focusing on sequential art, specifically Comics and Graphic Novels, Located in the village of White River Junction, in the town of Hartford, Vermont, the Center offers a Master of Fine Arts degree, both one and two-year certificate...
. He's listed as a contributor to the upcoming Popgun
Popgun (comics)
Popgun is an award-winning comics anthology series created by Mark Andrew Smith and Joe Keatinge. Popgun was published by Image Comics starting in 2007. The driving concept behind Popgun is a mixtape of graphic short stories that cross the borders of all genres...
4, and has posted mention of work on an upcoming Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis and follows three eccentric parapsychologists in New York City, who start a...
comic in 2010 on his blog.
Douglas also dabbles in comics journalism, publishing a comics site dedicated Canadian centric news, called Sequential.
Max Douglas (born September 15, 1970) is a Canadian
People of Canada
Canadians are the people who are identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be genetic, residential, legal, historical, cultural or ethnic...
comic book creator
Comic book creator
A comic book creator is someone who creates a comic book or graphic novel.The production of a comic book by one of the major comic book companies in the U.S...
. Since approximately 1996, he has worked under the pen name of Salgood Sam which is derived from a reverse spelling of his name.
Biography
After spending his late teens drawing zineZine
A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....
s, Douglas had his first credited published art in a co-created black-and-white comic book for Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics or Caliber Press was an American comic book publisher founded in 1989 by Gary Reed. Featuring primarily creator-owned comics, in the next decade Caliber published over 1300 comics and ranked as one of the America's leading independent publishers...
, Nature of the Beast. Shortly afterward, in 1992, Douglas started working at Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
on Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
's Nightbreed
Nightbreed
Nightbreed is a 1990 American fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella Cabal. The film features Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby and David Cronenberg. The story centers in a community of mutant outcasts that hides from humanity, known as the...
#20, from the company's Epic Comics
Epic Comics
Epic Comics was a creator-owned imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982, lasting through the mid-1990s, and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s.- Origins :...
imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
.
After that he was hired to draw Nightbreed #23, and then assigned Saint Sinner
Saint Sinner
Saint Sinner may refer to:*Saint Sinner , a comic book series published by Marvel Comics and created by Clive Barker*Saint Sinner , a television movie also created by Clive Barker...
, a new title under the short-lived Razorline
Razorline
Razorline was an imprint of American comic book company Marvel Comics that ran from 1993-1995. It was created by filmmaker and horror/fantasy novelist Clive Barker, with its characters existing in one of the many alternate universes outside the mainstream continuity known as the Marvel...
imprint, created for Marvel by Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
. Douglas designed the characters, penciled and inked the first four issues of the title, and collaborated on the series until issue #5. For Marvel he also worked on Morbius, the Living Vampire
Morbius, the Living Vampire
Morbius, the Living Vampire, is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane, the character, a living human suffering from vampiric abilities resulting from scientific rather than supernatural means, first appeared as...
#25, a 10-page story titled "Drainage System", scripted by Karl Bollers; Dr. Strange
Doctor Strange
Doctor Stephen Strange is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was co-created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, and first appeared in Strange Tales #110 ....
#63, "Song of the Blood Opal", by David Quinn; and a Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Man 2099 is a fictional comic book superhero, created by Peter David and Rick Leonardi in 1992 for Marvel Comics' Marvel 2099 line. His secret alter ego is Miguel O'Hara, a brilliant geneticist living in New York in the year 2099 A.D...
story in 2099 Unlimited #8.
He drew the DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
character Bloodwynd
Bloodwynd
Bloodwynd is a fictional necromancer published by DC Comics. He first appears in Justice League America #61 , and was created by Dan Jurgens.-Fictional character biography:...
in Showcase '94 #5 (May 1994), before switching to animation for work during much of the latter 1990s, working at Nelvana
Nelvana
Nelvana Limited is a Canadian entertainment company founded in 1971 known for its work in children's animation. It was named by founders Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith after a Canadian comic book superheroine created by Adrian Dingle in the 1940s...
in Toronto, and CinéGroupe
CinéGroupe
CinéGroupe Corporation is a Canadian animation studio based in Montreal, Quebec. The company also has offices in nearby Toronto and in the U.S. city of Los Angeles...
in Montreal. In the mid-1990s, he also started to sign his art Salgood Sam, a pen name
Pen name
A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
based on the mirror image of his given name.
In 2000,, under the pseudonym Salgood Sam, Douglas' art appeared in Real Worlds: Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....
Vs. the Red Menace, and Muties
Muties
Muties was a six issue miniseries from Marvel ComicsIt focused on six different Mutants, and each story was essentially self contained. The miniseries was supposed to show the day-to-day sufferings of mutants, not just those that managed to find their way to the X-Men and Charles Xavier...
#6. Shortly afterward, he worked as an inker on Goran Parlov's pencils for Terminator 3: Before the Rise, published by Beckett Comics
Beckett Comics
Beckett Comics started as a comic book-publishing imprint of Beckett Publications. It was founded in 2003. Originally, all of its titles were sold at a lower price than their competition...
.
Douglas then self-published the comic Revolver One in late 2004. It was nominated for Best Emerging Artist by the Doug Wright Awards
Doug Wright Awards
The Doug Wright Awards are literary awards handed out annually to Canadian cartoonists, honouring excellence in works published in English. The awards are named for Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright...
the following year. Douglas then teamed with Kieron Dwyer
Kieron Dwyer
Kieron Dwyer is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his work on Captain America vol. 1 , Danger Unlimited , Action Comics , Avengers Kieron Dwyer (born March 6, 1967) is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his...
and Rick Remender
Rick Remender
Rick Remender is an American comic book writer and artist who resides in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Punisher series, as well as Fear Agent, Uncanny X-Force, and Venom.-Career:...
to create Sea of Red
Sea of Red
Sea of Red is a comic book series about 16th century vampire pirates which was published from 2005 to 2006 by Image Comics. The series was written by Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer and drawn by Salgood Sam and Paul Harmon.-Collected editions:...
, a monthly series from Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
. In early 2006, Douglas contributed art to Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, published by Mr. Comics.
In 2007, he drew Therefore Repent!
Therefore Repent!
Therefore Repent! is a bestselling Canadian graphic novel written by anarchist freelance writer Jim Munroe and illustrated by Salgood Sam. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago neighbourhood after the predictions of Christian fundamentalists concerning the Rapture have come true, the righteous...
, a graphic novel written by Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe is a Canadian science fiction author, who publishes his works independently under the imprint No Media Kings.Munroe was managing editor at the magazine Adbusters in the 1990s, before publishing his debut novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask in 1999...
, published by No Media Kings in Canada and IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...
in the US.
In 2008 he contributed to Comic Book Tattoo
Comic Book Tattoo
Comic Book Tattoo is an Eisner Award and Harvey Award-winning anthology graphic novel made up of fifty-one stories, each based on or inspired by a song by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, published by Image Comics in 2008. Rantz Hoseley, longtime friend of Amos, served as the book's editor....
, an anthology comic book of stories based on or inspired by songs by American singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
, published by Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
.
From the mid- to late-2000s, Douglas posted art from a planned graphic novel, Dream Life on his site and a live journal blog dedicated to the project. Recently Dream Life has become part of the line up at Transmission X.
In 2009, he illustrated the story "Widows", written by Rantz Hoseley, in Awesome 2: Awesomer, an anthology published by Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions is an American publishing company founded in 1997, owned and operated by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock and a small staff. The company is based in Marietta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, and New York City, New York....
in support of a student scholarship for the Center for Cartoon Studies
Center for Cartoon Studies
The Center for Cartoon Studies is a two year institution focusing on sequential art, specifically Comics and Graphic Novels, Located in the village of White River Junction, in the town of Hartford, Vermont, the Center offers a Master of Fine Arts degree, both one and two-year certificate...
. He's listed as a contributor to the upcoming Popgun
Popgun (comics)
Popgun is an award-winning comics anthology series created by Mark Andrew Smith and Joe Keatinge. Popgun was published by Image Comics starting in 2007. The driving concept behind Popgun is a mixtape of graphic short stories that cross the borders of all genres...
4, and has posted mention of work on an upcoming Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis and follows three eccentric parapsychologists in New York City, who start a...
comic in 2010 on his blog.
Douglas also dabbles in comics journalism, publishing a comics site dedicated Canadian centric news, called Sequential.
Max Douglas (born September 15, 1970) is a Canadian
People of Canada
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comic book creator
Comic book creator
A comic book creator is someone who creates a comic book or graphic novel.The production of a comic book by one of the major comic book companies in the U.S...
. Since approximately 1996, he has worked under the pen name of Salgood Sam which is derived from a reverse spelling of his name.
Biography
After spending his late teens drawing zineZine
A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....
s, Douglas had his first credited published art in a co-created black-and-white comic book for Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics or Caliber Press was an American comic book publisher founded in 1989 by Gary Reed. Featuring primarily creator-owned comics, in the next decade Caliber published over 1300 comics and ranked as one of the America's leading independent publishers...
, Nature of the Beast. Shortly afterward, in 1992, Douglas started working at Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
on Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
's Nightbreed
Nightbreed
Nightbreed is a 1990 American fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella Cabal. The film features Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby and David Cronenberg. The story centers in a community of mutant outcasts that hides from humanity, known as the...
#20, from the company's Epic Comics
Epic Comics
Epic Comics was a creator-owned imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982, lasting through the mid-1990s, and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s.- Origins :...
imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
.
After that he was hired to draw Nightbreed #23, and then assigned Saint Sinner
Saint Sinner
Saint Sinner may refer to:*Saint Sinner , a comic book series published by Marvel Comics and created by Clive Barker*Saint Sinner , a television movie also created by Clive Barker...
, a new title under the short-lived Razorline
Razorline
Razorline was an imprint of American comic book company Marvel Comics that ran from 1993-1995. It was created by filmmaker and horror/fantasy novelist Clive Barker, with its characters existing in one of the many alternate universes outside the mainstream continuity known as the Marvel...
imprint, created for Marvel by Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
. Douglas designed the characters, penciled and inked the first four issues of the title, and collaborated on the series until issue #5. For Marvel he also worked on Morbius, the Living Vampire
Morbius, the Living Vampire
Morbius, the Living Vampire, is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane, the character, a living human suffering from vampiric abilities resulting from scientific rather than supernatural means, first appeared as...
#25, a 10-page story titled "Drainage System", scripted by Karl Bollers; Dr. Strange
Doctor Strange
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#63, "Song of the Blood Opal", by David Quinn; and a Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Man 2099 is a fictional comic book superhero, created by Peter David and Rick Leonardi in 1992 for Marvel Comics' Marvel 2099 line. His secret alter ego is Miguel O'Hara, a brilliant geneticist living in New York in the year 2099 A.D...
story in 2099 Unlimited #8.
He drew the DC Comics
DC Comics
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character Bloodwynd
Bloodwynd
Bloodwynd is a fictional necromancer published by DC Comics. He first appears in Justice League America #61 , and was created by Dan Jurgens.-Fictional character biography:...
in Showcase '94 #5 (May 1994), before switching to animation for work during much of the latter 1990s, working at Nelvana
Nelvana
Nelvana Limited is a Canadian entertainment company founded in 1971 known for its work in children's animation. It was named by founders Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith after a Canadian comic book superheroine created by Adrian Dingle in the 1940s...
in Toronto, and CinéGroupe
CinéGroupe
CinéGroupe Corporation is a Canadian animation studio based in Montreal, Quebec. The company also has offices in nearby Toronto and in the U.S. city of Los Angeles...
in Montreal. In the mid-1990s, he also started to sign his art Salgood Sam, a pen name
Pen name
A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
based on the mirror image of his given name.
In 2000,, under the pseudonym Salgood Sam, Douglas' art appeared in Real Worlds: Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....
Vs. the Red Menace, and Muties
Muties
Muties was a six issue miniseries from Marvel ComicsIt focused on six different Mutants, and each story was essentially self contained. The miniseries was supposed to show the day-to-day sufferings of mutants, not just those that managed to find their way to the X-Men and Charles Xavier...
#6. Shortly afterward, he worked as an inker on Goran Parlov's pencils for Terminator 3: Before the Rise, published by Beckett Comics
Beckett Comics
Beckett Comics started as a comic book-publishing imprint of Beckett Publications. It was founded in 2003. Originally, all of its titles were sold at a lower price than their competition...
.
Douglas then self-published the comic Revolver One in late 2004. It was nominated for Best Emerging Artist by the Doug Wright Awards
Doug Wright Awards
The Doug Wright Awards are literary awards handed out annually to Canadian cartoonists, honouring excellence in works published in English. The awards are named for Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright...
the following year. Douglas then teamed with Kieron Dwyer
Kieron Dwyer
Kieron Dwyer is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his work on Captain America vol. 1 , Danger Unlimited , Action Comics , Avengers Kieron Dwyer (born March 6, 1967) is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his...
and Rick Remender
Rick Remender
Rick Remender is an American comic book writer and artist who resides in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Punisher series, as well as Fear Agent, Uncanny X-Force, and Venom.-Career:...
to create Sea of Red
Sea of Red
Sea of Red is a comic book series about 16th century vampire pirates which was published from 2005 to 2006 by Image Comics. The series was written by Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer and drawn by Salgood Sam and Paul Harmon.-Collected editions:...
, a monthly series from Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
. In early 2006, Douglas contributed art to Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, published by Mr. Comics.
In 2007, he drew Therefore Repent!
Therefore Repent!
Therefore Repent! is a bestselling Canadian graphic novel written by anarchist freelance writer Jim Munroe and illustrated by Salgood Sam. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago neighbourhood after the predictions of Christian fundamentalists concerning the Rapture have come true, the righteous...
, a graphic novel written by Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe is a Canadian science fiction author, who publishes his works independently under the imprint No Media Kings.Munroe was managing editor at the magazine Adbusters in the 1990s, before publishing his debut novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask in 1999...
, published by No Media Kings in Canada and IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...
in the US.
In 2008 he contributed to Comic Book Tattoo
Comic Book Tattoo
Comic Book Tattoo is an Eisner Award and Harvey Award-winning anthology graphic novel made up of fifty-one stories, each based on or inspired by a song by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, published by Image Comics in 2008. Rantz Hoseley, longtime friend of Amos, served as the book's editor....
, an anthology comic book of stories based on or inspired by songs by American singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
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Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
, published by Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
.
From the mid- to late-2000s, Douglas posted art from a planned graphic novel, Dream Life on his site and a live journal blog dedicated to the project. Recently Dream Life has become part of the line up at Transmission X.
In 2009, he illustrated the story "Widows", written by Rantz Hoseley, in Awesome 2: Awesomer, an anthology published by Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions is an American publishing company founded in 1997, owned and operated by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock and a small staff. The company is based in Marietta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, and New York City, New York....
in support of a student scholarship for the Center for Cartoon Studies
Center for Cartoon Studies
The Center for Cartoon Studies is a two year institution focusing on sequential art, specifically Comics and Graphic Novels, Located in the village of White River Junction, in the town of Hartford, Vermont, the Center offers a Master of Fine Arts degree, both one and two-year certificate...
. He's listed as a contributor to the upcoming Popgun
Popgun (comics)
Popgun is an award-winning comics anthology series created by Mark Andrew Smith and Joe Keatinge. Popgun was published by Image Comics starting in 2007. The driving concept behind Popgun is a mixtape of graphic short stories that cross the borders of all genres...
4, and has posted mention of work on an upcoming Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis and follows three eccentric parapsychologists in New York City, who start a...
comic in 2010 on his blog.
Douglas also dabbles in comics journalism, publishing a comics site dedicated Canadian centric news, called Sequential.