Ilan Manouach (1980) is a comics artist and a postdoctoral scholar on computational creativity at the University of Liège. He is also an affiliate scholar at Harvard metaLAB, a member of Radcliffe’s Institute for Climate Sound & Society, and an affiliate researcher at Paris VIII with Laboratoire Paragraphe. He is the author of over 30 comic books and an editor of Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition, a collective glossary on AI, with 150 contributors exploring a variety of epistemic perspectives on artificial intelligence: interspecies, crip, monstrous, feminist, distributed, and decolonial, among others. He is an appointed expert on the comic book industry to the Belgian government and worked as a strategy consultant for the Onassis Foundation. He is the founder of Echo Chamber, a non-profit organization dedicated to comics research (part of the Creative Europe consortium of expanded publishing), and the founder of Topovoros Books, a Greek publishing house spearheading translations of cornerstone essays in humanities. He is the creator of Shapereader, a system of tactile comics for people with visual disabilities, and the co-creator of the first algorithmic cartoon generator, The Neural Yorker. His work is the subject of a dedicated Routledge critical anthology, and his latest book, Out Side, is a collaboration with K Allado-McDowell, founder of Google’s AMI program.