Blair was born in
Ottawa, Ontario, but spent his childhood from age nine onward moving back and forth between Canada and Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, and Vietnam. He attended
Carleton University in Ottawa but was expelled. Some of Blair's first professional work was animation for the children's television series ''
You Can't Do That on Television and the science show Let Me Prove It''. In 1985, when the insulation company Blair worked for lost its contract with the government, he persuaded the owner to revamp the corporation as Aircel Comics under Blair's editorial direction. Aircel became a successful independent comics publisher during the industry expansion which followed. Blair wrote and illustrated several of his own series during the early years of Aircel, including
Elflord (begun as a self-published series before Aircel became a publisher), and beginning in 1992 he wrote and illustrated runs of the
ElfQuest series
New Blood and
Blood of Ten Chiefs, and did other art and writing work for the then-expanding ElfQuest line, published by
WaRP Graphics. His series
Elflord and
Samurai were briefly revived in collaboration with Colin Walbridge (then known as Colin Chan) at WaRP, Mad Monkey Press and finally DavDev, as well as a new series,
Demongate, under the pseudonym Bao Lin Hum. In the early 2000s, Blair and Walbridge produced the adult graphic novel series
Sapphire for
NBM Publishing, as well as two titles,
Sno and
Dick Sweeney for now defunct French publisher Editions Paquet. Later they focused on work for online gaming and private commissions. They collaborated on
Nymphettes, an art series featuring erotic illustrations. They joined with Santos Aleman to form Studio RealmWalkers in 2009. He was survived by his mother Marjorie Allan, his sister Sandra Garland, his brother Bruce, and his partner Colin Walbridge. ==References==