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Max Douglas (born September 15, 1970) is a Canadian
comic book creator developed specialized terminology. Some several attempts have been made to formalize and define the terminology of comics by authors such as Will Eisner, Scott McCloud, R. C. Harvey and Dylan Horrocks. Much of the terminology in English is ...
. Since approximately 1996, he has worked under the pen name of Salgood Sam which is derived from a reverse spelling of his name.


Published works


''Early Career''

Douglas started drawing in his late teens, producing
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s. His first formally published work appeared in a co-created black-and-white comic book for
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, titled ''Nature of the Beast''. It was written with Al Roy who also penned a short story that Douglas drew called ''Captain Censored Vs. Dr. Goingtofar'

for ''True North 2'', published by the
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.


''1992–2000''

In 1992, Douglas started working at
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on
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's ''
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'' No. 20, from the company's
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imprint. After that he was hired to draw ''Nightbreed'' No. 23, and then assigned '' Saint Sinner'', a new title under the short-lived
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imprint, created for Marvel by
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. Douglas designed the characters, penciled and inked the first four issues of the title, and collaborated on the series until issue No. 5. For Marvel he also worked on ''
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'' No. 25, a 10-page story titled "Drainage System", scripted by
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; '' Dr. Strange'' No. 63, "Song of the Blood Opal", by David Quinn; and a
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story in ''
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'' No. 8. He drew the
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character
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in '' Showcase '94'' No. 5 (May 1994), before switching to animation for work during much of the latter 1990s, working at Nelvana in Toronto, and
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in Montreal. In the mid-1990s, he also started to sign his art Salgood Sam, a pen name based on the mirror image of his given name and returned to experimenting with self-published zines again as well, publishing a few pamphlets titled ''Cigarette Smokin’ Coffee Drinkin’ Cafe Chicks'' & ''Scrach Scrach'

In 2000, he worked for DC under the pseudonym Salgood Sam, Douglas' art appeared in ''Real Worlds:
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Vs. the Red Menace'' with authors
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&
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.


''2001–2010''

In 2002 Douglas returned to Marvel briefly to work on ''
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'' No. 1 & No. 6. In 2003 he worked as an inker on Goran Parlov's pencils for '' Terminator 3: Before the Rise'', published by Beckett Comics. Douglas then self-published the comic '' RevolveЯ One'' in late 2004. A collection of short stories written by Douglas, A.J.Duric, and John O'Brien. It was nominated for Best Emerging Artist by the
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the following year. Douglas teamed with
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and
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in 2005 to create '' Sea of Red'', a monthly series from Image Comics. In early 2006, Douglas contributed art to '' Revolution on the Planet of the Apes'', published by Mr. Comics. In 2007, he drew '' Therefore Repent!'', a graphic novel written by
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, published by No Media Kings in Canada and IDW Publishing in the US. In 2008 he contributed to '' Comic Book Tattoo'', an anthology comic book of stories based on or inspired by songs by American singer-songwriter
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, published by Image Comics. In 2009, he illustrated the story ''Widows'', written by
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, in '' Awesome 2: Awesomer'', an anthology published by
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in support of a student scholarship for the ''
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'' written by Dara Naraghi, called ''Tainted Love'' for IDW. In the summer of 2010 Douglas worked with ''The ARC Ensemble'' of
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, on a short animated film for Bravo TV called ''Honour Bound – The Exile of Adolf Busch''.
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was one of Europe's finest violinists. The film is an account of his decision to abandon Germany and to choose self-imposed exile rather than compromise with the Nazi regime. His String Sextet was performed by the ARC Ensemble and played alongside illustrations provided by Douglas.


''Dream Life, a late coming of age''

From the mid- to late-2000s, Douglas posted art from a planned graphic novel, ''Dream Life'' on his site and a live journal blog dedicated to the project. In 2010 he launched ''Dream Life'' as a web comic as part of the line up at Transmission X. It's his first effort to both write and draw a long form story. May 2014 he published book one of Dream Life after raising funds via Kickstarter to print it.


''RevolveЯ a comic anthology''

In July 2010 Douglas relaunched his earlier self-published collection as an ongoing web comic anthology site. Along with comics he published short stories and poetry on the site erratically. In November 2012 the RevolveЯ site was revamped and the web comics aspect was replaced with a serialized self-published print and digital publication.


''Comics Journalism''

Douglas also dabbles in comics journalism, publishing a comics site dedicated Canadian centric news, called ''Sequential''


''Teaching''

Douglas teaches a Dynamic Drawing class at Syn Studio an industry focused art school based in Montreal.


Comic Jams

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's
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(Workshop for Potential Literature) and its subsequent comics arm,
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(Workshop for Potential Comics). In the 60's in San Francisco,
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& the
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'all Stars'Credits for a 3 page Jam Comix in Zap#4
/ref> produced short often non-narrative comix that make the earliest well documented use of the name 'Comix Jam'. In 1995 Max became involved in organizing collaborative Comix JamsA short history and explanation of the Monthly Montreal Comix Jam or MMCJ
after attending a few in Montreal hosted by Rupert Bottenberg. He helped organize one of the first of such events held in Toronto, arranging to have Rupert and a group of Montreal Jam regulars to attend, and promoting the event locally to the Toronto Comics scene. The event was a success, including coverage from the local media. And inspired one attendee, Zine publisher Dave Howard, to take up hosting similar events on a monthly basis. After Moving to Montreal Max began hosting monthly Jams there, publishing the pages online and in regular
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. He hosted the events from 2001 to 2004 approximately.


References

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External links

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Sequential

Dream Life
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Transmission X

RevolveЯ
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Early zines in digital form


Interviews


Interview With Salgood Sam
ManWithoutFear.com 2000.
Interview With Salgood Sam
on Slushfactory.com 2001.
Interview With Salgood Sam
on Blog @
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2007.
Canadian Comics: Interviewing Salgood Sam of Dream Life and The Rise and Fall of it All
on the Fabler Blog 2010.

An interview on Moving Pictures by Sam Agro 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Douglas, Max Living people Comics critics 1970 births