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Jonathon Dalton (born September 16, 1977) is a Canadian artist specializing in comics and webcomics. He was described by the National Post as one of Canada's "most under-appreciated comic artists working today".

Beginnings
Dalton was inspired to create comics at an early age. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria.

In 2003 Dalton began writing his now-weekly science fiction webcomic A Mad Tea-Party. He teaches elementary school in the town of Mission on the outskirts of Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the director of communications and co-founder of the Vancouver-based comics society entitled Cloudscape Comics. In his free time, Dalton conducted a free workshops at two Surrey Public Library branches, teaching aspiring illustrators how to put a comic together.

Achievements
In 2009 Dalton's work Wolverine and Jubilee got the Joe Shuster Award for the Vision of an Icon Art Show and Sale by Canadian artists, and was exhibited at the Joe Awards Ceremony in September and at the Speakeasy Comic Art show in November in 2009. In 2010 Dalton won the Xeric Grant for his book Lords of Death and Life. Lords of Death and Life was also nominated for Outstanding Environment Design in the 2007 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards. The following year, in 2008, he was presented with the award for Outstanding Long Form Comic. Dalton's work has been published in Cloudscape anthologies and the 2008 Fablewood anthology from Ape Entertainment. His 2009 short story "Lil' Ulysses in Chicago" was listed as a Notable Comic in the 2010 edition of Best American Comics.