John Miers is senior lecturer in illustration at Kingston School of Art and associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. He has chapters in Seeing Comics Through Art History: Alternative Approaches to the Form (Palgrave, 2022) and Representing Acts of Violence in Comics (2019), and has presented papers at key international peer-reviewed conferences. His recent comics work deals with his experience of living with multiple sclerosis. His first comic on this topic, So I Guess My Body Pretty Much Hates Me Now, was produced during a postdoctoral residency in University of the Arts London's Archives and Special Collections Centre at London College of Communication, and voted "Best One-Shot" in the 2020 Broken Frontier awards. Other recent and forthcoming publications in comic form include contributions to the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2021) and Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly (2022).