David F. Walker

David F. Walker is an award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. His comics work includes Shaft: A Complicated Man, which won the 2015 Glyph Award for Story of the Year, as well as Marvel titles including Luke Cage, Power Man and Iron Fist, Nighthawk, Fury, and Deadpool, and DC’s Cyborg. He is also the co-creator of the Eisner Award-winning series Bitter Root and the author of The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History.

Walker wrote Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined, a graphic novel illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson that reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective. He is also the author of Shaft’s Revenge and the young-adult novel The Second Chance of Darius Logan.