Larry Hancock

Larry Hancock is a professional accountant living in Toronto, Canada. Along with Michael Cherkas he has created several comic books/graphic novels including The Silent Invasion, Suburban Nightmares and the Purple Ray.

Larry Hancock was born in Toronto in 1954 and has been a science fiction fan ever since discovering Andre Norton, Alan E Nourse and Robert Heinlein in the children's library. He has been a dedicated comic book fan for just as long.

Within the science fiction community, he was active with the Friends of the Merril Collection from 1980 to 2002. He was the chair of the Bid which brought the World Science Fiction Convention to Toronto in 2003 and was the treasurer of the Board of Directors behind the WorldCon.

As a professional accountant (CPA CA), he has many clients in artistic fields - writers, artists, animators, films. However, counter to the view of accountants as boring, he has written graphic album/comic books The Silent Invasion and The Purple Ray with Michael Cherkas and Suburban Nightmares with Cherkas and John van Bruggen.

It should be noted that, while the credits on Amazon and other sites often list Larry as the writer and Michael as the illustrator, Larry and Michael plot their work together, with Larry supplying the scripting and Michael the drawings.

While still an avid fan of science fiction, in recent years Larry's reading has turned much more to British crime novels.

In recent years, Larry's vacations have taken him further afield, to Costa Rica, Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Kenya, Madagascar, Indonesia, Egypt, Jordan, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Italy, Ecuador, Thailand, Cambodia, India, South Korea and Japan.

In 2022 Larry and Michael contributed a graphic short story to "Comics for Ukraine" an anthology assembled to raise funds to support Ukraine. The anthology won the 2023 Eisner Award (the comic book equivalent of an Oscar) for Best Anthology for the year. Our story, "Talking to a Hill" was nominated for best Graphic Short Story, but did not win.