Shane Kirshenblatt is a multi-disciplinary artist and instructor with over 20 years of experience. Specializing in sculpting, painting, animation development, toy design and comics/ graphic novels, his work can be seen in the award-winning Mark Twain's Niagara Vol.1, and SCI: Jewish Comics Anthology Vol. 2 (both by AH Comics), as well as the Joe Shuster/Canadian Comic Book Awards-nominated Toronto Comix Vol.3, and Hogtown Horror Vol.1. Outside of his artistic practice and extensive fundraising efforts for organizations such as WWF, Ronald McDonald House, and Canadian Cancer Society, Shane has been running youth-oriented, arts-based programming at Ontario schools (as a five-time recipient of the Ontario Arts Council Artists In Education grant), camps (as Head of Creative Arts at Zodiac Day Camp, and past Leadership Experience and Development/ Counsellor In Training program Coordinator), and special events (Paradise Toronto Comic-Con, and Niagara Falls Comic Con) since 1998.