Mason Harold (Hal) Hilden is a Bluenoser, who currently resides in Saint John, New Brunswick, with his wife Stacy, daughter Hayley, Sy the dog, and Foo the cat. Over the last 20 years, Hal has written comic books for Lucky Comics, Red Leaf Comics, and has one professional work, Political Power: Stephen Colbert, for Tidalwave Productions. He has also teamed up with talented NS artist and creator Andrew Clark on three separate occasions. Hal has also dabbled in writing mini-biographies, interviews, sports articles, and scripting for both animation and movie. When not writing comics, Hal also writes fiction under his full name Mason H. Hilden, and has had drabbles and stories appear in anthologies from Black Hare Press, Macabre Ladies Publishing, and Iron Faerie Publishing.