
2021 Eisner Award nominee – Best Continuing Series (Daredevil).2021 Eisner Award nominee – Best Writer ( Stillwater, Daredevil, Fantastic Four/X-Men).2020 Eisner Award nominee – Best Writer ( White Trees, Daredevil, Spider-Man: Life Story, Afterlift), Best Continuing Series ( Daredevil with Marco Checchetto).2019 Eisner Award nominee – Best Writer ( Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel Two-in-One).2017 Eisner Award nominee – Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17) ( Jughead, with Ryan North, Erica Henderson and Derek Charm).
2014 Eisner Award nominee – Best Series ( Sex Criminals, with author Matt Fraction).2021 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book - Empyre, Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling / Empyre: Aftermath Avengers (with Al Ewing, Dan Slott and Anthony Oliveira).2020 Eisner Award – Best Digital Comic ( Afterlift, with artist Jason Loo).2019 Shuster Award – Best Writer ( Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel Two-in-One).2019 Eisner Award – Best Single Issue/One-Shot ( Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #310).
2017 War Rocket Ajax Intercontinental Championship. 2017 Eisner Award – Best Humor Publication ( Jughead, with Ryan North, Erica Henderson and Derek Charm).
2016 Harvey Award – Special Award For Humor ( Howard the Duck). 2015 Harvey Award – Special Award For Humor ( Sex Criminals rejected by winner). 2014 Harvey Award – Best New Series ( Sex Criminals). 2014 Harvey Award – Most Promising New Talent. 2014 Eisner Award – Best New Series ( Sex Criminals, with author Matt Fraction). In 2020, DC Comics announced that Zdarsky would be among the creators of a revived Batman: Black and White anthology series to debut on December 8, 2020. Zdarsky later wrote the two Spider-Man miniseries Spider-Man: Life Story and Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow. On February 15, 2017, it was announced that beginning that June, Zdarsky would be writing a brand new "back-to-basics" Spider-Man series Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man that would run alongside writer Dan Slott's run on The Amazing Spider-Man. Zdarsky wrote the first series arc of the relaunched Jughead comic for the 2015 New Riverdale relaunch. In 2014, Murray won a Will Eisner Award for Best New Series for Sex Criminals. Sex Criminals was declared number 1 on Time magazine's list of "Top 10 Comics and Graphic Novels" of 2013. The first issue was released on September 23, 2013. In June 2013, Image Comics announced that Chip Zdarsky had teamed up with Invincible Iron Man and Hawkeye writer, Matt Fraction, on a new creator-owned series titled Sex Criminals. He was not an officially registered candidate, launching his satirical "campaign" through social networking platforms after the deadline had passed to register as a candidate in the real campaign. In 2010, he also launched a mock campaign for mayor of Toronto. He also wrote another column in that paper, Tear Jerk, in which he reviewed films to see if they could actually make him "weep like a baby".Īlong with Kagan McLeod, Ben Shannon, and Cameron Stewart, he is a co-founder of the studio The Royal Academy of Illustration and Design, which produced Rumble Royale. įrom 2008 to 2014, Murray penned and illustrated a weekly advice column for the National Post called "Extremely Bad Advice". No matter what, I'm going to mess things up." Murray initially attempted to keep the identities separate and secret. And that became a character." He describes the character as "an idiot who doesn't know what I'm doing. About his alter ego, Murray said "I wanted to have a sad-sack cartoonist persona that lives in his mom's basement, paints figurines for money, has restraining orders against him. In 2000, Murray created Chip Zdarsky as a pseudonym and alter ego for his persona as a comic book writer and illustrator, developing his own independent projects, such as Prison Funnies and Monster Cops (which can be read online or in print) as well as collaborating on a variety of projects, including Dark Horse Comics titles Fierce and Rumble Royale. Murray has illustrated for such clients as The Globe and Mail, New York magazine, CBC and Canadian Business. Steve Murray was born in Edmonton, Alberta and raised in Barrie, Ontario.