David F. Walker

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), and the Eisner Award-nominated series Naomi (DC Comics). His debut YA novel, The Second Chance of Darius Logan, was published by Scholastic in 2024, as was the graphic novel Big Jim and the White Boy (Ten Speed Graphic), a dynamic retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Walker 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). He also teaches part time at Portland State University.