Alex Schumacher is an author/illustrator whose list of work includes The Unemployment Adventures of Aqualung graphic novel for Arcana Studios (2013), The World's Crummiest Umbrella picture book for Wandering in the Words Press (2014), articles for Comicon.com, and storyboards for DreamWorks TV. His first collection of literary magazine comics, Defiling the Literati, was released in 2017 to rave reviews from such sites as Graphic Policy and Bleeding Cool. That same year Alex was also nominated for a 'Best of the Net' award for his graphic narrative collaboration with underground poet John Bennett. Alex continues to produce the weekly webcomic Decades of (in)Experience for Antix Press (since 2015) and the monthly misadventures of Mr. Butterchips for Drunk Monkeys (since 2016). Alex lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.