Daryl 'Fuse' Hutchins

Daryl 'Fuse' Hutchins (b. 1985, Wilmington, Delaware) is a Bronx-based cartoonist, muralist, and former bike messenger. He studied illustration at Pratt Institute, apprenticed with sign painters along the Brooklyn–Queens border, and published the xeroxed zines Fusebox and Underpass between 2008 and 2015. His murals can be found from Hunts Point food markets to community centers in Camden, and his short comics have appeared in The Believer, Cicada, and small-press anthologies. He has taught youth workshops through the Laundromat Project and Casita Maria, and received a NYSCA grant in 2021 for a series on transit workers. When not drawing, he repairs mixtape decks and co-runs a nighttime basketball league on 163rd. He lives in the South Bronx with a dog named Primer.

Books