Damian Duffy is an cartoonist, writer, curator, lecturer, teacher, Glyph Comics Award-winning graphic novelist, and a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, where he teaches a course on computers and culture.His many publications range from academic essays (in comics form) on new media & learning, to art books about underrepresentation in comics culture, to editorial comics, to a forthcoming graphic novel adaptation of Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, published by Abrams ComicArts.A co-founder of Eye Trauma Studios, Damian has given talks and lead workshops about comics, art, and education internationally.