Chip Zdarsky

Steve Murray, known by the pen-name Chip Zdarsky, is a Canadian comic book artist and writer, journalist, illustrator and designer He has also used the pseudonym Todd Diamond. He worked for National Post for over a decade, until 2014, as an illustrator and humorist (as Steve Murray) and wrote and illustrated a column called Extremely Bad Advice for the paper as well as The Ampersand, the newspaper's pop culture section's online edition. He uses the Zdarsky pseudonym for comics-related work, using it to create Prison Funnies and Monster Cops and as artist and co-creator of Sex Criminals with writer Matt Fraction. He wrote Howard the Duck and Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man for Marvel Comics and Jughead for Archie Comics.