Adam McGovern is a writer and semiotic analyst born in Newark, New Jersey. His cultural criticism appears on
HiLoBrow.com and
Tor.com, and he has lectured on pop culture as social artifact at the Montclair Museum of Art and Ben Katchor’s NY Comics and Picture-story Symposium. McGovern has written comics appearing in the Eisner-nominated
Project: Romantic anthology from AdHouse Books, Image Comics’
Next Issue Project, the Trip City online arts salon and the indie-comic newspapers
POOD and
Magic Bullet. His poetry has appeared on
The Rumpus, and his play
Funnybook/Tragicbook was performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, USA. McGovern’s essays have appeared in prestige compilations of
The Spirit and
Madman as well as the catalogue for “The Amazing Shoemaker” exhibition at the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Italy.
mcgovernix.wordpress.com