Zac Thompson is an award-nominated multidisciplinary writer and author of over 50 comics including Cable, Marvellous X-Men, Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Into The Unbeing, Alien: Romulus and Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Resurrections for Penguin Random House. Zac’s debut original comic series, The Dregs, was called “lowbrow brilliant” by New York Magazine. His 2018 follow up, Come Into Me, was named one of the best 100 horror comics of all time by Paste Magazine. In 2023, Thompson’s original screenplay The Replacer was selected for production financing from Telefilm Canada. In 2026 he received the PEI Arts Grant to commission the creation of his newest historical horror comic The Prison Doctor’s Assistant.

His other comic book credits include Batman: The Brave and the Bold for DC Comics, Hunt for the Skinwalker, Blow Away and Angel + Spike at BOOM! Studios, and No One’s Rose for Vault Comics. Thompson has also written for VICE, Huff Post, Spectre Vision, Seraphilm Films, 20th Century Studios, Razorblades Magazine, Bloody Disgusting, and numerous other publications.

When Zac’s not out in nature foraging for mushrooms you can find him serving as the Director of Film Programming for PEI’s ANCHOR FEST. He lives in the woods on a tiny island in Canada.