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Marks, Graham

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June 27, 2008

Graham Marks - Author Profile

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Appearing:
Sunderland (18th)

Author Website
to be confirmed

Publisher
Catnip

As a child Graham spent the first six years of his life following his father around who was an RAF pilot, including a three-year stint in Canada. The start of a love affair with North America that’s never stopped.

He was sent to boarding school at the age of 13, an experience he hated, and then went to Harrow School of Art to study Information Graphics. Graham has produces children’s non-fiction books, written children’s novels and even attempted to launch the UK’s first adult comic strip magazine.

As a writer he has penned comic strip scripts for Marvel UK (Motormouth, The Genetix), radio scripts for BBC Radio 5 (Wiggly Park) and TV and film tie-in books for Boxtree (Captain Scarlet, Judge Dredd) and BBC Worldwide (Wallace and Gromit, 5th Musketeer).

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