Mark Frauenfelder
Mark Frauenfelder
Mark Frauenfelderis a blogger, illustrator, and journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the magazine MAKEand is co-owner of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing. Along with his wife, Carla Sinclair, he founded the bOING bOING print zine in 1988, where he acted as co-editor until the print version folded in 1997. There his work was discovered by Billy Idol, who consulted Frauenfelder for his Cyberpunk album. While designing bOING bOING and co-editing it with Sinclair, Frauenfelder became an editor at Wired from...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth22 November 1960
CountryUnited States of America
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