Stephen Dafoe: Story and Colours
As a child, Stephen Dafoe wanted to run away and join the Mafia. However, as things worked out, he did the next best thing - he became a Freemason, and began writing about them.
Over the past decade, Dafoe has written several books on the Freemasons and the Knights Templar, including Nobly Born: An Illustrated History of the Knights Templar and The Compasses and the Cross: a History of the Masonic Knights Templar.
A life-long comic geek, Dafoe decided in 2005 to combine his love of the Templars and medieval history with his love for the sequential art form.
The result was Outremer: The Saga of the Knights Templar, a project more than two years in the making.
Although it was a story Dafoe was more than capable of writing, he didn't stand a chance of bringing it to the printed page without some artistic help ...
Bob Prodor: Pencils, Inks and Letters
Bob Prodor is an Edmonton born Illustrator who got his start doing Gig Posters for local and touring underground punk bands.
Green Day, Nirvana, and Desmond Dekker are the most notable, as well as local bands SNFU, Jr Gone Wild and the smalls.
After graduating from Grant MacEwan, Bob lived in Vancouver for eight years, where he produced t-shirt designs, posters and logos for such diverse and underground companies as a burlesque troupe, an ultimate fighting team and an internet Jackass-style show.
It was during this time thAT he started working with Alberta Country singer Corb Lund, whom he has designed tour posters, t-shirts, and even album covers for.
Their collaborations have even produced a comic book, with a second volume on the way.
Bob has had a lifelong interest in comics, and in addition to producing three series of his own characters, has taught both adult and children classes on the fundamentals and history of sequential art.
His current projects include a story about the Knights Templar and Alberta's first black cowboy, John Ware.
