Mark Billings Badger (October 16, 1958), known as Mark Badger, is an American illustrator who has worked as a penciler, inker, cover artist, painter, and occasional colorist in the American comic book industry. In addition to his career as a comic book artist, Badger is a political activist and organizer, often mixing the comic book medium with activism.[1] As an early adapter of digital tools to create comic art,[2] Badger has taken to create web-based comics for the purposes of education and activism.[3] Under these auspices, he is in collaboration with the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice to establish an online platform to produce a series of web comix with other authors and artists to preserve the life and legacy of heretofore unrecognized queer civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin.[4] Badger also teaches "Programming, comic books, and web development" at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University.[5] Badger, a native of Cleveland, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age thirty.[6] He lives in Oakland, California.[7]
^Badger, Mark. "About." Mark Badger: Comics, Coding, and Teaching. Web. 1 March 2014. markbadger.org
