Michael Connor has taught at Waynflete Summer Arts and Breakwater Creative Arts, as well as taught workshops in comics and cartooning for children and adults before joining MECA&D’s Illustration Department. He is also a freelance illustrator whose clients have included local music acts Big Blood, id m theft able, Tom Whitehead, and Dan Knudsen, as well as international musicians Jaap Blonk and B.J Snowden. He also exhibits his work frequently in local galleries. While he enjoys many means of image‐making, including graphite drawing, collage, painting, and assemblage, his area of expertise is black‐and‐white line art and sequential narrative, much of which has been self‐published in a zine titled Coelacanthus. Michael also works at the local eclectic shop Strange Maine. He earned his BFA from the University of Southern Maine.
Laurels
● Author and publisher of the zine Coelacanthus for over 10 years.
● Reviewed in The Comics Journal, 2008, 2009, 2010
● Maine Comic Arts Festival participant
Extracurricular
Much of Michael’s time is devoted to his wife Maria and their young son, Rowan, and the small daily adventures of walks in the woods, treasure‐hunting at thrift stores, and noticing small phenomena. He continues to immerse himself in old monster movies, classic cartoons, oddball comics, Garbage Pail Kids, MAD Magazine, old Doctor Who and Star Trek episodes, and music by Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, Shonen Knife, Kate Bush, Devo, and others.