Ira Marcks

Ira is a cartoonist, author and teacher living in Upstate New York with his wife, two cats, a dog and lots of books he’s been meaning to read.

His love for stories about ancient magic, mythical monsters, and possible futures has led him to work with the European Research Council to speculate on future-tech, create a warehouse of esoteric objects for the Hugo Award Winning magazine, Weird Tales, and discuss world building in this episode of the PBS series, A House for the Arts. He teaches 1,000+ students a month on Skillshare and ihas published Shark Summer, a new graphic novel for Little, Brown Publishing. His proudest moment was when Understanding Comics author, Scott McCloud wrote a thoughtful blog post about his work.