Taral Wayne
| Taral Wayne | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 12, 1951 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | July 31, 2024 (aged 72) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Artist, Inker, Colourist |
| Pseudonym(s) | The Romulan Baked Potato |
| Awards | Rotsler 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. In October 2008 he received the annual Rotsler Award. In recognition of his contributions to science fiction fandom, particularly Canadian fandom, Taral was named Fan Guest of Honour by the 2009 Worldcon, Anticipation.
The pen name Taral originated from a fictional synthetic language, Siroihin, that he described in one of his early science fiction fanzines.