Robert Chambers Edwards (1860 — 1922) delighted discerning readers, scandalized prudes, and shattered the conventions of journalism with his series of self-published one-man newspapers. The first collection of Edward’s writings in over twenty-five years, Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers & Unabashed Grafters captures the man in his many, oft contradictory guises: hard-drinking journalist, accomplished fiction writer, Prohibition booster, impish idol-toppler, free-thinker, reluctant MLA and self-promoter. An incendiary wordsmith, Bob Edward’s pasquinades blend fact and fiction with mischievous abandon. The spiritual father of The Onion? At least. A Canadian original? Completely!

James Martin is a columnist for Calgary's FFWD Weekly and a freelance writer on the side. Until last year he was a true-blue Calgarian. He's since moved to Montreal where he is learning how to eat bagels.

Canada's most storied newspaper columnist, Allan Fotheringham has appeared in the Vancouver Sun and later with Southam News, The Financial Post, Sun Media, The Globe and Mail and Maclean's magazine. He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, where he was the editor of The Ubyssey. He has lived in Hearne, Saskatchewan, where he was born and started out in a one-room schoolhouse, in London, England where he dabbled in Fleet Street (with little visible impact); in Ottawa (where he did leave a visible impact) and Toronto, where he did post-graduate work and consumed a lot of sherry. He has travelled widely in some 86 countries, has reported from the Soviet Union and China and has been in Africa five times over 20 years. Fotheringham was a columnist in Washington for five years, covering the Reagan and Bush administrations and travelling extensively in the United States. Fotheringham wrote for Maclean's magazine for 27 years, and was a 10-year panelist on the famous Canadian television show, Front Page Challenge. He was the 1964 winner of the Southam Fellowship in Journalism, the 1980 winner of the National Magazine Award for Humour, and the first winner of the National Newspaper Award for column-writing. In 1999, he was inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame. In 2002, he was the winner of the Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award at the Jack Webster Awards in Vancouver. He now lives, more or less permanently, in Toronto.