John Zakour is a humor/sf/fantasy writer with an online Master's degree in Human Behavior.  He has written zillions (well, thousands) of gags for syndicated comics and comedians (including: Rugrats, Grimmy, Marmaduke, Bound and Gagged, Dennis the Menace, The Tonight Show and, Joan River's TV show).  John also writes his own syndicated comic, Working Daze, for United Media, which appears in papers all over the world and has a regular web following with over 50,000 readers. He also has been a regular contributor to Nickelodeon magazine writing Fairly Odd Parents, Rugrats and Jimmy Neutron comic books.

John's first humorous SF mystery, The Plutonium Blonde (DAW 2001, co-written with Larry Ganem) was named one of the top 30 SF books of 2001 by The Chronicle of Science Fiction who called it "the funniest SF book of 2001". Other novels in the series have made the Locus and SF bestseller lists. The fifth book in the series, The Blue-Haired Bombshell, will be released in December 2007 by DAW.  John has also sold numerous short stories to anthologies and magazines. A comprehensive list of John's works can be found at his website.