Dr. J. Andrew Deman is a full-time Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Waterloo. His research on comics is published in Critical Survey of Graphic Novels, American Visual Memoir after the 1970s, English Studies Forum, TRANSverse, Canadian Graphic Life Narratives, and in his recent book The Margins of Comics, which explores the representation of women, racial minorities and the geek throughout comics history. Andrew also served as a featured expert for the ten part comics documentary series INK: Alter Egos Exposed, and Andrew just completed a 2-year term as the President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics (CSSC).