Bio written for Attack of the Show:
As Editor-in-Chief of CFQ/Cinefantastique, the nation’s leading genre print magazine, Sean Jordan has his finger on the pulse of pop culture. With over a decade of experience behind-the-scenes, he has followed his passion of the entertainment industry to influence trends and enlighten the masses to media that may have otherwise gone overlooked.

The two words that best describe Sean Jordan are “Entertainment Junkie.” It’s always been the case; from a time barely in grade school when his mother worked at NBC and he’d watch advance episodes of Buck Rogers and other programming in their private screening rooms, to the teenage years when a favorite hobby would be to scour domestic and foreign pop culture news magazines in effort to act as town crier and spread the latest news amongst his friends, to life as a young adult working behind-the-scenes at L.A. radio station KROQ, where he quietly played an important role in the breaking of such noteworthy bands as Radiohead and Weezer. Upon leaving KROQ in 1995, Jordan set out to carve his own unique path in entertainment, hoping to enlighten others to those things in pop culture he felt weren’t getting the attention they deserved. To accomplish this, he launched the Internet site and e’zine ZENtertainment that May, almost a year before Aint It Cool News and other similar websites took off. Rather than require people to click through dozens of pages each week, Jordan formatted ZEN primarily as an e’zine, sending it out to an audience that grew to over 150,000 readers each week for the next eight years. During this time, ZEN continued to break news you could bank on, on everything including TV, movies, DVD, music, books, comics, games, gadgets, food, theater, amusement parks and much more. Because ZEN was a free service, Jordan supplemented his income over these years by freelancing for such magazines as Seventeen, Maxim, New York, Blender CD-ROM, Wizard, InQuest, Toy Fair and Toons, as well as designing and assisting in the creation of such official film websites including the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Lost in Space, The Wedding Singer and Dark City. If he had to pick the most memorable moment in ZEN’s impressive history, it would have to be his prominent inclusion in the Power & Glory section of Vanity Fair’s 1998 Hollywood issue, where he was listed as being “the Matt Drudge of the multiplex.”

Sean Jordan took a sabbatical from writing in 2002 to return to school, receiving an associates degree in the culinary arts and Le Cordon Bleu certification. Shortly before graduating, he was enlisted to help relaunch CFQ/Cinefantastique magazine with a brief calendar feature that would help make up the back of the book. One thing led to another, and Jordan took a step back from his culinary adventures to take a full-time position as CFQ’s resident Senior Editor, with a similar position on sister magazine Femme Fatales. Six months later he was promoted to Managing Editor. A little more than a year later, he took over as Editor-in-Chief of CFQ and continues to put his all into both publications.

Jordan’s first issue of CFQ was particularly fitting in that it was a double-sized TV spotlight. Spend a little time with the guy and you’ll likely learn he watches almost everything that gets beamed over the airwaves. He’s the person to turn to if you’re wondering what’s going on a show, where it’s been in the past, or even what’s happening in the coming weeks and months that will have people talking. When the producers of Smallville couldn’t find someone to play Lois Lane, it was to Jordan that they turned, casting not only recommendation Erica Durance as Lane but also a second of his five tips, Ona Grauer, as Lex Luthor’s doctor for three episodes. His attention to the world of television and knowledge of what people are watching has helped CFQ grow its audience with in-depth coverage of favorites of our readers such as Lost, Alias, Smallville, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.