A. David Lewis earned his Ph.D. in Religion and Literature from Boston University and his M.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University while developing original graphic novels such as The Lone and Level Sands and Some New Kind of Slaughter. He is the co-editor of Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels and Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age. Lewis teaches in the Greater Boston area and was a 2015 Eisner Award nominee for American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife. In 2017, he co-edited Muslims Superheroes: Religion, Islam, and Representation with Martin Lund and, the following year, wrote the new adventures of the first Muslim superhero Kismet, Man of Fate. His research has since come to include Graphic Medicine and specifically the depictions of cancer in comic books and graphic novels. Lewis is a founding member of Sacred and Sequential, a former Executive Board Member for the Comics Studies Society, and a Member at Large for the nonprofit organization NuDay Syria. His own 501(c)3 organization CYRIC produced over 1000 new comics on Syrian folklore for refugee children, free of cost.