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Mark Toner has been living a number of parallel lives, although it is unconfirmed whether some time travel device has been used.

One life took him through the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, and to the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawai’i. In this life he was an astrophysicist and got to play with giant telescopes and orbiting observatories.

Another life had him teaching programming and desktop publishing in an ITeC in Dumfries before training as a maths teacher and teaching maths and physics in Dumfries and Galloway College of Technology.

Another life is being chronicled by bandmate Noel Chidwick and saw the extradimensional creation of prog band Arbelos currently touring a universe near you.

Work has tended to settle on the artist’s life which has seen Mark hijack his school newsletter and make it into a comic, join in the 80s independent comic revolution with the ‘Humphrey’ cartoons, and now making electronic comics here at www.spacepilot.co.uk, including SF epic ‘Gail Scott: Space Pilot’ available on Amazon’s Kindle Store.

Mark says, “If you like the Gail Scott series and would like to put it on your site, email me. (mark null@null ayesongs NULL.com?subject=Gail Scott Order) I’m always happy to help other impoverished web content providers as long as they let me approve the use. If you’ve got commercial plans for my comics, I insist on my share of the proceeds. All Gail Scott artwork and stories are copyright © 2011 Mark Toner, all rights reserved. If you have a need for illustration for your own site or publication, I am for hire. So contact me (mark null@null ayesongs NULL.com) to discuss your requirements.”