Dr. Zack Kruse is the Eisner-nominated author of Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity. Scholar of visual media, literature, and American culture; occasional comics maker; organizer of Appleseed Comic Con; co-organizer of the Michigan State University Comics Forum; former marketing director at Discount Comic Book Service; former Managing Editor at The Journal of Popular Culture; podcaster on Pictures Within Pictures and Prerequisites. Also, you can check out his eclectic music show, “Mutant Graveyard” on Rockin’ the Suburbs Radio.
He is interviewed in Midnight Mind Number Eight.