Johnson, David is a Portland-based cartoonist and letterer raised in Duluth, Minnesota. He studied illustration at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (BFA, 2008) before moving west in 2009, where he cut his teeth making minis at the Independent Publishing Resource Center and storyboarding for small animation studios. His indie collections Ink in the Rain (2015) and Sprout Season (2018) garnered small-press festival nods and an Ignatz nomination. A frequent workshop instructor, he teaches kids how to thumbnail, ink, and staple their own zines, and occasionally repairs vintage fountain pens for friends. When he's not sketching at Case Study Coffee or biking the Springwater Corridor, he's at home in Astoria with his partner and a retired racing greyhound named Fennel.
