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Is an assistant professor at the U of T whose fields of study include: The origins of the stellar initial mass function, The kinematics of star-forming molecular cloud cores and their environments. in particular, examining their sources of support (ex. rotation and turbulence), and bulk motions linked to their evolutionary states (ex. infall and outflows), The search for and classification of young, high-mass protostellar and pre-protostellar objects, The development of an evolutionary sequence for high-mass pre-protostellar objects. I asked him as many questions about space related stuff as I could. If you enjoyed Cosmos, you're gonna love this interview.

J. Bone is an Eisner Award nominated Canadian comic book artist and writer who has worked on such titles as DC Comics' Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Super Friends. He was the inker on the Eisner Award-winning one-shot Batman/The Spirit. J.Bone's first published work was Solar Stella for Sirius Entertainment, for which he was nominated for an Eisner Award 2001 (Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition). In 2002, Oni published Alison Dare, co-created by J. Torres with art by J.Bone. He came by and we talked about everything from a Batman/Spiderman stand off to the changing role of women in comcs. Great chat with a great guy!

Jeff Leake hosts The Verge on XM and occasionally does on air shifts at 102.1 The Edge here in Toronto. He's a pretty rad guy, and was a massive influence on me and how I approach radio. He has a really laid back, off the cuff delivery and is probably one of the best interviewers around. He also gives horrible parenting advice for cool people.

What can I say about George that you don't know already? Well long before he was on CBC and Much he was on the radio. We talk about that and then delve into his love of The Wire and some of his experiences with The New Music. Pretty cool chat, maybe next time we'll be able to get him into the studio!

Francis co-writes The Flash for DC Comics as well as doing the penicls. Not only that, he's a great guy and has been a profound influence on how I approach working in comics. We talk about all kind of stuff including the introduction of Gorilla Grodd in the latest run of The Flash, to writing as a craft. And we even started discussing what it would take to get a big budget Justice League movie. I demand a big screen Booster Gold!

David Evans is an Associate Curator in Vertebrate Palaeontology and oversees dinosaur research at the ROM. He first laid eyes on dinosaur skeletons in the galleries of the ROM and has been fascinated with dinosaurs and palaeontology ever since. As an undergraduate student David spent several summers working as a field technician for the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, where he studied the duck-billed dinosaur Corythosaurus for his undergraduate thesis. David's doctoral dissertation analyzed skull growth and evolutionary relationships in crested hadrosaurs, with an emphasis on the striking diversity of these animals from Alberta, Canada.

Adam Gorham is an artist and all round handy guy. He once built a mechanical arm that operated with pneumatic levers! It's true. He completed his first major work a few years ago. It was a book called The Vampire Conspiracies, and he's currently working with me on a project called Teuton, available at bigsexycomics.com. You can follow him on Twitter at adamtgorham and be sure to check out his blog as well aprincelydreadful.blogspot.ca Phil is a true man of the people, when not educating the minds of tomorrow he's writing up a storm for Furious comics. He's quarterbacked a few compilation books like Book of Methuselah and Horror in the West, as well he's also contributed to the highly popular Fubar series, featuring zombie stories with a World War 2 backdrop. He also grows great facial hair and is one of the most supportive men you could hope to meet. You can follow him on twitter at PhilMcClorey Brian and I just started talking a few months ago, and he's a great guy to discuss comics with. Just he

Ray Fawkes is a prolific Canadian graphic novelist born in Toronto, Ontario. Some of his novels include Spookshow (2003), Pink (2006), The Apocalipistix (2008) and the ever popular, One Soul (2011). Ray's work is, to his fans and critics, incredibly introspective, dreamlike and bombastically slapstick. One Soul, arguably Fawkes' greatest work, is being praised for its poetic and often lyrical nature. Ray is also a two time Shuster Award nominee in the "Outstanding Canadian Writer" category, as well as a YALSA Award winner for his previous, "Posessions Book One: Unclean Getaway."

Dominik Diamond is a Scottish television and radio presenter and newspaper columnist. He is best known as the original presenter of Channel 4's video gaming programme GamesMaster, as host of The Dominik Diamond Breakfast Show on Xfm Scotland and as a columnist for the Daily Star. He is currently on air at Q107 in Toronto and is a columnist for The Chronicle Herald newspaper in Nova Scotia.

Scott Chantler is the Shuster Award-winning cartoonist of the graphic novels Two Generals, Northwest Passage, and the Three Thieves series. An acclaimed graphic novelist and illustrator he has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning excellence. He is the author of Northwest Passage, a multi-volume graphic narrative set in 1755 colonial Canada, and the artist of graphic novels including Days Like This, Scandalous, and Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen. He is also a popular commercial illustrator whose clients include McDonald's, Reebok, Macy's, the Toronto Star, the National Post, and Maclean's. When he's not doing either of those things, he teaches Writing for Graphic Novels at Max the Mutt Animation School in Toronto.

A familiar face in the world of stand-up and on television, Darrin Rose is hitting the road again for a new comedy tour. Darrin's Chasing Manhood Tour will be in Toronto on Friday April 13th at the Innis Town Hall. Check out his website – darrinrose.com - for more info and other tour dates. Darrin appears in the CBC sitcom Mr. D, and is featured on MuchMusic's Video On Trial. He has been nominated for two Canadian Comedy Awards, as Best Male Stand-Up in 2011 and Best Newcomer in 2007. He has appeared on NBC's Last Comic Standing. He has twice performed at the Just For Laughs festival, plus the Halifax Comedy Festival, and his one man show "What's Potpourri?" received four stars at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in 2010. His half hour stand up special debuted on CTV/Comedy Network in 2011.

Paolo Rivera is an American, Marvel-exclusive comic book artist. He began his career in oil painting, but has since moved onto pencilling, inking, colouring and sculpting. As a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003, he studied under David Mazzucchelli. He is best known for his work on Mythos, written by Paul Jenkins. However, he also done tremendous work on The Twelve, The Iliad, The Amazing Spider-Man and the Wolverine Art Appreciation Month series. Currently, he's working on Daredevil - check out his blog The Self-Absorbing Man for more about this amazing artist.

Phil Jimenez is an American comic book writer and artist. He's best known for his work on Wonder Woman (2000 - 2003), as part of the team that worked on Infinite Crisis and for his collaborations with Grant Morris on New X-Man and The Invisibles. He was a graduate of School of Visual Arts in New York, and when he was just 21 years old, he was hired by DC Comics Creative Director Neal Ponzer. Jimenez teaches a life drawning class as part of the undergrad program at the School of Visual Arts and recently, has been working on the cover for Star Trek/Legion of Superheroes.

Andy first came to my attention when I began reading Kill Shakespeare, but he's done so much more than just that. From there I found a comic that resonated with the ostracized youth inside me. Bottle of Awesome. However, today we talked mostly about his forthcoming project: Black Church and his love of Metal and History. And for Becky Cloonan Yeesh, how does one even start. She works on Conan for crap's sake, but let's not pigeon hole her. Even if that'd be a pretty crom-tastic pigeon hole. She has worked on things like Northlanders, Demo, American Virgin, and the comic that made my penis move: Wolves. She hates the Tudors, and has plans on making a comic about a Roman Slave Girl, heck yes it sounds romantic!

Ottawa-native, Jim Zubkavich - or Jim Zub - is a freelance comic book artist best known for his work on Skullkickers and Makeshift Miracle. In addition to being an avid gamer, Zub is also an editor at UDON Entertainment which publishes comics and graphic novels based on games. In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Zub explained how the comic book industry is ever-changing: Once a comic book series is up and running, it's hard to keep audiences captivated on monthly issues. So, in light of that, Zub offers some of the early issues of Skullkickers online as a way to get more readers on board. Currently, Zub is working on Shifty Look - an experimental website by the video game/media giant Namco-Bandai.

Alberta-born artist and illustrator, Marcus To, is well known for his work on DC's Red Robin. After completing a one-year animation program in Vancouver, then a computer science degree, he started working at a photography studio in LA while trying to break into the comic industry. After receiving tremendous feedback on his work from the Wizard World convention and updating his current collection for the San Diego Comicon - Aspen Comics asked him to join them. In 2009, he moved to Toronto and started working with DC. The following year he joined R.A.I.D - The Royal Academy of Illustration and Design. Since his work on Red Robin concluded, he's been focusing on a project for the Green Lantern video game and and a mini series called Huntress. Follow Marcus on twitter @marcusto or on tumblr http://marcusto.tumblr.com/ to keep up with his craft.

George Zotti is the manager and co-owner of Silver Snail Comics in Toronto. Silver Snail Comics has been a staple of the Queen St. West neighborhood for quite some time. Zotti has commented that some comics, such as the Archie series, have been updating their content to reflect the changes in society -- a recent issue of Archie Comics featured a gay wedding - suggesting two topics - homosexuality and marriage - that would never have been covered in earlier editions. So, as society continues to change and become more technologically savvy, Silver Snail Comics must also adapt to survive. Zotti hopes to increase the online presence and social media of Silver Snail Comics. Ideally, he wants to preserve the essence of Silver Snail by ensuring that when people visit the store they're still left with a lasting impression - much like he had when he first journeyed into Silver Snail Comics as a child.

Jamie Watson is a Canadian voice actor who has worked on shows such as Best Ed, Medabots, The Dating Guy, 6Teen, Masterminds and Yin-Yang-Yo! and several other animated shows, movies and games. In 2009, Watson won an ACTRA award for his work on Ruby Gloom, Cyberchase and Toot and Puddle. Currently, Watson works at Corus Entertainment in Toronto as a Voice Writer and continues to do voice overs for various media.

Canadian-born actor/comedian, Scott Thompson, is best known for being a part of the sketch comedy troupe - Kids on the Hall which ran on CBC from 1989-1994. In 2010, the group got back together for their eight-part mini series 'Death Comes Back to Town'. Thompson is best known for his monologues as Buddy Cole as well as his appearance as Queen Elizabeth II. Recently, Thompson appeared in A Russell Peters Christmas Special and on the Marilyn Denis Show as The Queen.

Joe Garden is an American comedy writer. Currently, he's the features editor at The Onion where he's created character columnists such as Jim Anchower and Jackie Harvey. In addition, he has co-written several books as part of the Action 5 collective he belongs to, including "The Dangerous Book For Dogs", "The Devious Book For Cats" and "The New Vampire's Handbook: A Guide for the Recently Turned Creature of the Night". Lastly, along with his wife, Anita Serwacki, he's also contributed to PBS Kids WordGirl. Follow him on Twitter for his latest musings.