Shane Simmons is the writer and artist of the celebrated epic-minimalist graphic-novel series, Longshot Comics, depicting the historic journey of The Family Gethers through the high and low points of the British Empire. Reprinted in multiple languages and appearing in museums, lectures, and academic texts about character design and sequential storytelling, new editions have been prepared for the 25th anniversary of the original publication, The Long and Unlearned Life of Roland Gethers. This includes book two, The Failed Promise of Bradley Gethers, and the long-anticipated third volume, The Inauspicious Adventures of Filson Gethers.

An award-winning screenwriter and novelist, Shane is also the author of The Necromancer Thanatography supernatural suspense books (Necropolis and Epitaph), as well as the Sid Volke detective mysteries (Sex Tape), and a host of darkly humorous crime and horror stories, including the novella Filmography, and the anthology collection, Raw and Other Stories.

Shane lives in Montreal after growing up in the suburb of Lachine—a town best known for being massacred in 1689 and having a joke name. As he increasingly moves away for the grind of film and television writing, he greatly appreciates his growing readership that has followed his return to comics, and his emergence as a sardonic, satirical voice on the printed prose page. Donations from generous patrons will help keep him writing, and unlock exclusive looks at rare material, new and old, including more Longshot Comics stories, original tales of dark comedy, and excerpts and previews of work-in-progress. Thank you!

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