Benjamin Jackson at night can be found bartending at the Penthouse Nightclub in Vancouver, where he’s worked for over a decade, dreaming up new messages for the club marquee. Or in the day, anonymously up a ladder outside the club with a box full of plastic letters—until now, where local media have dubbed him ‘the sign guy’. Forty-three-year-old Jackson is originally from Calgary. A Sign of the Times is his first book.
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Aaron Chapman is a writer, historian, and musician with a special interest in Vancouver’s entertainment history. He is the author of Vancouver after Dark: The Wild History of a City’s Nightlife, winner of the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award (BC Book Prizes) in 2020; Live at the Commodore, a history of the Commodore Ballroom that also won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award in 2015. He was one of the co-writers of Vancouver Confidential (Anvil Press). In 2020 he was elected as a member of the Royal Historical Society. He lives in Vancouver.
