Al Davison is an English comic book writer and artist from Newcastle, England. He now resides in Coventry, where he runs TAG!artworks, his studio and comic shop in Fargo Village with his wife Maggie.
He is most famous for his autobiographical graphic novel The Spiral Cage from Active Images, (2003) which describes his lifelong struggle with Spina Bifida and his life as a comics creator, martial artist and multimedia artist.
He is also known for his work on IDW’s Doctor Who comic, and numerous titles for DC/Vertigo. The Spiral Cage featured in Tony Isabella’s 1000 Comic Books You Must Read.
Muscle Memory is an online sequel to The Spiral Cage. Al was commissioned by Unlimited and The Space to create a multimedia version (Muscle Memory in Motion) starting with Chapter 6, designed to make the work more accessible.
He hopes to get funding to develop this approach across the whole book. Al is also keen to find a publisher for a physical edition of the book.