Artist, Illustrator, Writer , Activist

Engaging with such topics as labour history, youth subcultures, climate change, and the housing crisis, my work uses diverse creative mediums to raise awareness about pressing contemporary issues.

I am an illustrator, storyteller, musician, and filmmaker with a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. My work uses words and images to make cultural interventions in service of progressive social change. As an award-winning cartoonist, I have authored graphic novels, graphic essays, journalistic works, political cartoons, illustrations, and posters. My scholarly writing has appeared in journals such as Topia and in compilations such as Zombie Theory: A Reader (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).

Working from the recognition that our common humanity is the horizon encircling all art, storytelling, and identity, my work is explicitly community-oriented and informed.

From projects ranging to collaborating with skateboarders, architects, and city officials to renovate Beasley Skateboard Park; to collecting stories from and raising awareness about the historic Brightside Neighbourhood in Hamilton, Ontario; to using comics to explore the cultural dimensions of our reliance on fossil fuels, my work uses art and creativity to deepen our relationships to each other, to history, and to place.

A still image of a skateboard park with colourful graffiti and a skateboarder riding by. The title Beaz Steez: Skateboarding at Beasley Park is in the lower half of the frame.
A drawing of a car going down a city street leaving a trail of exhaust. In the sky, the clouds and smog spell the message: "Wake Up, Global Warming Never Sleeps."
There is a blue tinted handdrawn map of the vanished Brightside neighbourhood in the background of this page.
A cartoon of a house, seen from above with the roof removed. In the living room is kids playing and chaos. A woman is trying to work on a laptop in a crowded closet space.
A cartoon of an artist in front of an easel painting a picture of a modern looking condo, but the building he is actually looking at is old and run-down.
On a green background that looks folded, worn out and has pieces of yellowing tape stuck to it, a green silhouette of a zombie walks with arms outstretched.