Michael C. Goodwin
718 East 3550 North
North Ogden, UT 84414

(801) 782-0062




After deciding against a career in Relativistic Matter-Anti-Matter Propulsion Units, Michael Goodwin 
accepted a scholarship in Commercial Art to Utah State University, hoping to meet some sexy models.  He 
didn't.  

He sold his first cartoons to a local Utah fanzine, CLAVIUS, in 1975.  After much encouragement and a 
promise of big bucks, he wrote his first cartoon book:  WHO WAS THAT MONOLITH I SAW YOU 
WITH?  Lured by the Promise of even bigger bucks, he started a syndicated cartoon strip titled, MY 
STARS!  Alas, fate was not kind to him and the strip failed after a year, and he didn't make much money 
at it either.  The cartoons later appeared in a book, MY STARS!, and a personal fanzine, THE STARRY 
NIGHT, under the title of "Tripping the Light Fantastic."  His art and cartoon work have also appeared, 
over the objections of other artists, in STARTOONS (edited by Joan Winston), STARLOG, and other 
strange and wonderful fanzines all over the country.  He has also published a guide to Alan Dean Foster's 
COMMONWEALTH series, titled, appropriately, A GUIDE TO THE COMMPONWEALTH.  With 
Orson Scott Card, Goodwin did a two-volume anthology of stories about dragons.

Recently (with even more objections by other artists), he published a new cartoon book sequel, titled SON 
OF MONOLITH!, and worked on TREK TOONS I, II, and III, edited by Mark Lister. Among some of the 
many things Michael hates is being mistaken for someone talented, and maintains that all of his paintings 
are done by his Siamese cat, Mushroom.  He is married with one wife (unlike some people in Utah), has 
one very nice son, a large mortgage, too much extra weight, and 1,000 pounds of rocks and fossils 
gathered foolishly from the southern Utah deserts. He is currently at work on THE MONOLITH SRIKES 
BACK, and DINO TREK, AN UNNATURAL HISTORY OF THE MESOZOIC.  He has also recently 
started on a full-length science fiction novel titled BETWEEN THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT.  He 
has exhibited his astronomical art in planetariums and museums around the West and has illustrated book 
covers in Europe.