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Chip Zdarsky is a Canadian comic book artist/journalist/bon vivant. He was born Steve Murray but is known by his fan base as Chip Zdarsky, and occasionally Todd Diamond. He writes and illustrates an advice column called Extremely Bad Advice for the Canadian national newspaper National Post's The Ampersand, their pop culture section's online edition. He is also the creator of Prison Funnies and Monster Cops.

Biography
Chip Zdarsky has been a light of the Toronto comic scene for ten years. Having started as an erstwhile illustrator, and comics creator working on his own comics, like Prison Funnies and Monster Cops which you can read on his website, and also in print format, and collaborating on a variety of projects like Fierce and Rumble Royale, he now has a weekly advice column that he illustrates for the National Post called Extremely Bad Advice, as well as another column, the Tear Jerk, which sees him reviewing films for their ability to make him weep like a baby.

Along with Kagan McLeod, Ben Shannon, and Cameron Stewart, he is a co-founder of the studio The Royal Academy of Illustration and Design.

He purports to have an uncle, named Melvin Zdarsky, who charms women and men, young and old. The RH Chip Zdarsky is endlessly creative, and has a affinity for baked goods, and has not been bashful in his calls for submission regarding such baked goods in his advice column.

Todd Diamond Finansense
''' a series of five recession-friendly video blogs were created featuring Todd Diamond. These were followed up with a three-part series on using and understanding Twitter. They can be found on the National Post website, and also on youtube.

Episode 1: Money Episode 2: Oil Episode 3: Bailouts Episode 4: Retirement Episode 5: Economic Stimulation

Episode 6: Twitter, part one Episode 7: Twitter, part two Episode 8: Twitter, part three

Interviews

 * Podcast with Chip Zdarsky
 * Toronto Comic Art Festival 2009 Q&A with Chip Zdarsky
 * Newsarama interview: MAKING PRISON FUN! CHIP ZDARSKY'S PRISON FUNNIES
 * Blog@Newsarama interviews Chip Zdarsky