Mark Shainblum (born 1963, the son of Max and Eva Shainblum) is a Canadian writer who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Though he has worked as a journalist and editor, Shainblum is best known as a science fiction and comic book writer.
In the early 1980s, Shainblum published two issues of a comics and science fiction fanzine called Orion: The Canadian Magazine of Time and Space, and later founded Matrix Graphic Series (later known as Matrix Comics), one of only a handful of independent comic book publishers in Canada at the time.
His published works include:
With John Dupuis, Shainblum also co-edited the 1998 short story collection Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas, which garnered an Aurora Award for Canadian science fiction in 1999. Shainblum was also a finalist in the 2001 international Mark Twain Writing Competition and recently published a story in Claude Lalumière's anthology Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic from Vehicule Press. In 2002-03, he served as president of SF Canada, Canada's national association of science fiction and fantasy authors.
Shainblum is collaborating on two webcomics projects: with artist Sandy Carruthers on a super-hero genre webcomic project entitled Canadiana, and on a mystery serial, The Haunting of MacGrath with artist Jeff Alward. He also works as a communications officer at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital.
Shainblum's great-uncle Yechiel (Eli) Shainblum was also well-known in Montreal as a painter, sculptor and teacher.