Josh Stafford

Josh Stafford is the writer of Zomkeys, which has three self contained issues published by Winter Star Comics, and has had work featured in a number of comic book anthologies. Beware The Children (a Damned, Cursed Children precursor also co-written with Howard Wong) was published in the Joe Shuster Awards nominated Hogtown Horror, I Heart 11-QPG-1B9 in the digital series Strange Romance, and Red Giant in Flip, Volume 2. He also has an animation writing credit on the DC Super Hero Girls episode #FlashForwardFlashBack (available to watch on YouTube).

Josh is a Canterbury High School of the Performing Arts, and Vancouver Film School graduate. A short script that he wrote at film school was included in the book, The Tyranny of Story. He wrote and directed a number of short films, including 07-07-13, which screened at the San Diego Comic-Con. He also co-produced / co-directed the roller derby documentary Four Wheeled Furies that appeared on CBC.

He is a proud co-owner and geek-in-chief of the Mayfair Theatre in Ottawa, a classic (and haunted) single-screen independent cinema that opened in 1932. And, he co-hosts the popular Mayfair Theatre Podcast weekly, which passed 300 episodes at the end of 2020. He is really good at Dig Dug, but just hasn’t gotten around to officially recording a high score to get onto a top twenty high score record holders list. A true geek life highlight was being killed by Jango Fett in a Star Wars comic, a thrilling accomplishment even though that story is not canon anymore.