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- Michael C. Goodwin
- 718 East 3550 North
- North Ogden, UT 84414
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- (801) 782-0062
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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