The cartoonist Damian Duffy is a writer, letterer, curator, lecturer, teacher, Glyph Award winning graphic novelist, and PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. His many publications range from academic essays (in-comics-form) about new media & learning to a forthcoming graphic novel adaptation of Kindred by Octavia E. Butler. He has given talks and lead workshops about comics, art, and education internationally.