Lateef Martin is a multi-disciplinary artist, from writing, music production, voiceovers, dance, cosplay and fabrication. At the core of it, he is an illustrator with a taste for video games, comics, sci-fi and 80s Saturday morning cartoons. He founded his company Miscellaneum Studios in 2013, its goal to tell stories centring black, indigenous and people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ community, the disabled the neurodivergent and other marginalized communities.

Lateef Martin is the concept artist, story board artist and illustrator of a multimedia experience featuring Z’Isle, a ‘cyclepunk’ comic book series set in Montreal 7 years after a zombie apocalypse, Abdul Lateef and the Distraction Machine: a visceral musical theatre performance combining cyclepunk costumes, music and step dance, and Distraction Machine: a music-based game bridging both worlds.

Lateef Martin has sat on juries for the Canada Council of the Arts, Pixelles BIPOC Creator Fund as Co-administrator for BIPOC Facebook group Game & Colour has consulted for the Canada Media Fund. He also hosts presentations on games, comics, entrepreneurship and inclusivity in media at conferences, game and comic conventions, high schools, colleges and community spaces.