Spark Artist

David F. Walker’s career has spanned multiple decades and includes work as a comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. Walker’s work includes the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History (Ten Speed Press), the Eisner Award and Ringo Award-winning series Bitter Root (Image Comics), the NAACP Image Award-nominated Big Jim and the White Boy, and the Eisner Award-nominated series Naomi (DC Comics). He has written for Marvel Comics (Luke Cage, Occupy Avengers, Power Man and Iron Fist, Nighthawk, Fury, Deadpool, Planet of the Apes) and DC Comics (Cyborg, Young Justice).His debut YA novel, The Second Chance of Darius Logan, was published by Scholastic in 2024. A respected scholar in the study of African American representation in film, Walker wrote, produced, and directed the documentary film Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered, & Shafted examining the history of blaxploitation films of the 1970s, as well as writing the upcoming book Black Film: A History of Black Representation and Participation in the Movies. He also teaches part time at Portland State University.