DB Dowd is a professor of Ccommunication Design and American Culture Studies. He holds a joint appointment in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts and the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University. Dowd's research interests include his work as a designer, illustrator and cartoonist at Ulcer City Studio. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dowd is also active as a curator, essayist and critic in the realm of modern graphic culture, writing on theoretical and historical topics in comics, animation, and illustration. He writes the blog Graphic Tales and serves as an advisor to the Norman Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Dowd recently co-edited Strips, Toons & Bluesies: Essays on Comics and Culture (2006) for Princeton Architectural Press and served as a curator for Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women's Magazine, 1940-1960, which debuted at the Rockwell in 2007. Originally trained as a printmaker, Dowd's books and prints are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, among many others.

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