Darryl Cunningham
Darryl Cunningham is the cartoonist of five non-fiction books, including Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy, and Billionaires. His comics explore subjects as diverse as mental health, science, economics, and politics. Cunningham has given talks at the London School of Economics and the City of Arts and Lights, Valencia. In 2015 he was one of 30 world-renowned photographers, painters, sculptors, writers, filmmakers and musicians who were invited to contribute to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Art of Saving a Life project, to promote vaccination in the developing world. In 2018 he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Master of Arts from Leeds Arts University. Cunningham lives in the United Kingdom.
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Billionaires Launch at Elliott Bay Books
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Saturday, May 8, 2021 to Saturday, May 8, 2021
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July 11, 2022
Ducks & Putin’s Russia are named two of the best graphic novels of the year by Thrillist!
Heroes with severed arms, real-life dictators, sentient fart people, a man posing as an assassin. It’s early in 2022,...
May 12, 2022
PopMatters reviews Putin’s Russia
Vladimir Putin is a controversial figure, to say the least. To many in the West and in America, he is the face of Russi...
February 25, 2022
The NY Times features Putin’s Russia and Come Over Come Over
COME OVER COME OVER, by Lynda Barry. (Drawn & Quarterly, $21. 95. ) Barry’s now-classic collection of comics abou...
February 18, 2022
Darryl Cunningham interviewed on Putin in The Tyee
Vladimir Putin is purportedly the richest man in the world. Of course, much of his wealth is stolen from ordinary Russi...
February 15, 2022
Putin’s Russia in Comicbook’s Weekly Pull
It’s unfortunate, but Darryl Cunningham’s newest comics history could not have arrived at a more appropriat...
February 11, 2022
Putin’s Russia featured in Forbes
As Russian troops mass at the border with Ukraine in the latest international crisis, the media is full of commentary ab...
May 10, 2021
Billionaires reviewed in Comics Worth Reading
Darryl Cunningham‘s latest is a well-done, depressing read. Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful combines...
May 4, 2021
“A rogues gallery of hugely wealthy and powerful plutocrats”: The Comics Journal on Billionaires
Darryl Cunningham’s Billionaires offers up a rogues’ gallery of hugely wealthy and powerful plutocrats — Ruper...
D+Q’s 2021 Nonfiction Round-Up
Today we’re spotlighting all the amazing non-fiction, biographical, and autobiographical comics we published in 2021. Get to know Tono Monogatari by…
D+Q Books on Best of 2022 Lists: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, and more!
This year we published outstanding graphic novels that garnered critical praise and resonated with readers around the world. We’re so honoured…
For Your Consideration
With 2022 coming to a close, let’s take stock of what an outstanding year this has been for D+Q. This year…