Al Davison (born 1960) is an English comic book writer and artist from Newcastle, England.
He is most famous for his autobiographical graphic novel The Spiral Cage (Renegade Press, 1988, longer version Titan Books, 1990, Absolute edition from Active Images, 2003), which describes his lifelong struggle with spina bifida and his rise to successful comic book creator, martial arts instructor, film maker, and performer.McIlvenny, Paul, "Disabling Men: Masculinity and Disability in Al Davison's Graphical Autobiography The Spiral Cage in Soren Ervo, Thomas Johansson, Bending Bodies: Mounding Masculinities, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 1 Sep 2003 The Spiral Cage featured in Tony Isabella's 1000 Comic Books You Must Read.
He is the subject of a documentary, also called The Spiral Cage, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.
As part of the 10-day Festival800, which took place in Lincoln from 28 August to 6 September 2015, he has been commissioned to create Manga Carta – a 10-page, 30-panel graphic tale of the journey and impact of the 800-year-old Magna Carta. Manga Carta is available for download from the festival website since mid-August 2015.
He now resides in Coventry, where he runs The Astral Gypsy, his studio and comic shop in Fargo Village, Far Gosford Street, with his wife Maggie.
Bibliography Crisis, issue 34, 1989 Bruce Lee: The Elusive Dragon, 1983 The Spiral Cage original graphic novel, 1990 Minotaur's Tale Dark Horse Books, 1992 Tainted (with Jamie Delano) one-shot, 1995 The Endless Gallery, one-shot, 1995 Teknophage, (with Paul Jenkins) 7–10, 1995 Hellblazer issue 101 (with Paul Jenkins) (mistakenly credited to Sean Phillips), 1996 Vermillion, 1–7, (with Lucius Shepard) 1996-97 The Dreaming, 20–21, 1998 The Dreaming, (with Caitlin R Kiernan) 41, 1999 Spiral Dreams 2000 9/11, anthology, one story, 2002 The Spiral Cage Active Image edition, 2003 Hokusai Demons Astral Gypsy Ltd, 2009 Doctor Who, (with Tony Lee) 1–2, 7-8 2009-10 Doctor Who, 2010 The Unwritten issue 24, 2009 House of Mystery issue 17, 2009 The Alchemist's Easel The Astral Gypsy Ltd 2013 Tommy Taylor & The Ship That Sank Twice Vertigo 2014 The Unwritten Apocalypse #5 & #7 Vertigo 2014 Manga Carta, 2015
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