Darryl Cunningham is the award-winning author of Supercrash- How to Hijack the Global Economy (a New York Times bestseller), Graphic Science; The Age of Selfishness- Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis; Putin's Russia- The Rise of a Dictator; and Billionaires, which won the Best Graphic Nonfiction category in the Broken Frontier Awards 2019. In 2015, he was one of 30 world-renowned photographers, painters, sculptors, writers, filmmakers, and musicians invited to contribute to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Art of Saving a Life project to promote vaccination in the developing world. In 2018, he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Master of Arts from Leeds Arts University. He lives in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom.
""Darryl Cunningham distills extensive research into a sharp, accessible narrative that breaks down Elon Musk’s complex and often troubling life story. Elon Musk: American Oligarch offers a stark warning: beware of Musk and his dystopian vision—a techno-fascist future that fuses South African apartheid, Jim Crow racism, and anti-democratic plutocracy, all in service of his personal gain."" —Mike Konopacki, illustrator and co-author of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of American Empire ""Darryl Cunningham tells a frightening tale of money and power. And how money can buy power. Elon Musk: American Oligarch is informative and engaging to its very last page."" —Noah Van Sciver, author and illustrator of The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln