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For more, see our History.

Writers who are interested in writing a weekly column for Tangmonkey should send proposals to Sean Michaels or JP Davidson. Please include an outline of your proposed column concept/format, and a writing sample. Those who wish to join the staff of our Books, Comics, Food or Music Departments should contact the sections' respective Editors. We are also open to one-off articles, from serious commentary to satire. Look around the site for other places you may be able to get involved.

Artists who wish to lend support with occasional graphic design or banner support should contact Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. Please include a sample of your work. Neale's column, Ink, also showcases the work of amateur artists on a weekly basis.

We can offer no payment to any of our contributors at this time. All of the staff at TANGMONKEY.COM operate on a volunteer basis.

The story of TANGMONKEY begins on a tourists' venture to Montreal, where in the winter of 2000 JP Davidson, Mac Larwill, Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet and Sean Michaels visited the Biodome. Our journey was motivated not by a fantatical desire to see animals caged in an artificial environment, but rather by the rather masculine urge to, uh, see Fantasia 2000 on an IMAX screen. Having completed the principal goal of the trip however, there was free time, and an enormously cool glass dome to visit.

Inside the Biodome, the quartet of genteel fellows came across a Golden Lion Tamarin, or, as JP observed, a monkey the colour of Tang™. The rest is history - the domain-name was purchased on the 25th of January, 2000, and the first incarnation of tangmonkey.com showcased The Saurus and, shortly after, the Tangmonkey Dance.

It was not until May, after a series of high-intensity programming sessions ("Jungle Carnivaals", to the lay-person), that something approaching the current TM was born. Over the next year, columns and comics joined the original suite of RANT!, Ball Lightning, Pulp, and TM Records. In August of 2001, a complete redesign brought with it Top Ten and the Ice-Cream. A year later, Tangmonkey was reshaped so that it might better showcase our regular writers and make silly noises more audible over the Internet din.

The founding Tangmonkey Group consisted of (in alphabetical order), Gareth Auden-Hole, Mike Carr, JP Davidson, Mac Larwill, Pat Leckey, Peter Lumsden, Sean Michaels, Neale McDavitt-van Fleet, Ulmo MŸtte, and Craig Smith. The site's current staff is listed above.