Taral Wayne

Taral Wayne
Born(1951-10-12)October 12, 1951
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedJuly 31, 2024(2024-07-31) (aged 72)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Area(s)Cartoonist, Writer, Artist, Inker, Colourist
Pseudonym(s)The Romulan Baked Potato
AwardsRotsler Award, 2008. Fan Guest of Honour, Anticipation, 2009. Best Canadian Fan Artist award, Canadian Fanzine Fanac awards, 2011.

Wayne MacDonald (October 12, 1951 – July 31, 2024), known by his pen name Taral Wayne, was a Canadian science fiction fan artist who was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist eleven times, from 1987 to 2012.[1][2] In October 2008 he received the annual Rotsler Award.[3] In recognition of his contributions to science fiction fandom, particularly Canadian fandom, Taral was named Fan Guest of Honour by the 2009 Worldcon, Anticipation.[4][5]

The pen name Taral originated from a fictional synthetic language, Siroihin, that he described in one of his early science fiction fanzines.[6]

  1. ^ (1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and most recently 2012 Archived 2012-04-09 at the Wayback Machine)
  2. ^ "Hugo Award nominations", Science Fiction Chronicle (October–November 2000) 22 (1): 42. Reports the 2000 nomination.
  3. ^ "2008 Rotsler Award: Taral Wayne".
  4. ^ Olson, Christopher (June 9, 2009). "The wait for Worldcon: World Science Fiction convention highlights Canadian SF". The Link. Retrieved September 8, 2009. [dead link]
  5. ^ "AnticipationSF: English - Guests of Honour". 11 August 2009.
  6. ^ Sward, Robert (January 9, 1982). "Gafia and egobo part of fanzine world", The Globe and Mail, p. E7.