Mark Badger is an illustrator who has worked as a penciler, inker, cover artist, painter, and occasional colorist in the American comic book industry. In addition to his career as a comic book artist, Badger is a political activist and organizer, often mixing the comic book medium with activism. As an early adapter of digital tools to create comic art, Badger has taken to create web-based comics for the purposes of education and activism. Badger also teaches “Programming, comic books, and web development” at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University. At the age of 30, Mark Badger was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He lives in Oakland, California.