Alex Schumacher

ALEX SCHUMACHER is an author/illustrator from the Bay Area of California whose career commenced with The Unemployment Adventures of Aqualung, published in 2013 by Arcana Studios. Alex then introduced the weekly webcomic Decades of (in)Experience in 2015 and the monthly online misadventures of Mr. Butterchips in 2016. A collection of the latter was released in July, 2020 by SLG Publishing, and the indie comics luminaries began hosting a “reboot” of the webcomic on May 5th, 2021. Since 2018, Alex has also written articles and essays for industry outlets such as Comicon.com, The Comic Book Yeti, and Monkeys Fighting Robots Magazine.

His debut middle grade graphic novel, The Effects of Pickled Herring is set to be released by Mango Publishing on March 12, 2024.