Michael Daniel Kennedy (b.1994) is a British comics author, cartoonist, and illustrator working and living in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is the author of several works of comics fiction, reportage, satire and humour. He has Illustrated for countless newspapers and magazines and has worked with children’s book publishers, museums, galleries and charities.

In comics and graphic novels he is the author of the short story collection Milk White Steed (2025) and has had comics published by McSweeney’s Quarterly, Believer , and VQR. He self-publishes and contributes to anthologies within the comics small press and underground scene.

His comics collection Milk White Steed (2025) presents 12 tragicomic stories about migration exploring the black diaspora, folklore and social history. The comics utilise multiple classic comics genres in particular British children’s comics. This bittersweet combination of themes and storytelling styles is something he is developing in his next two (in progress) books for acclaimed comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly.

He has contributed illustrations to New Yorker, New York Times, Atlantic, Vice, VQR, Wired and Medium amongst other outlets. He was awarded by the Society of Publication Designers for his work on the Medium column Only Black Guy In The Office.

As a researcher in 2024 he was made the Whitworth Wallis Fellow for Birmingham Museum’s Trust. The first cartoonist to be awarded the fellowship, he explored the Cities 19th century marketplace through comics and cartooning.

In education he has worked closely with the Barber Institute of Fine Art on learning and engagement projects with families and secondary schools. At university level, he has presented lectures in comics and editorial illustration to various undergraduate classes in the U.K.

Within the charity sector, he worked with the prison reform charity Switchback UK in 2025. He produced a comic that presents examples of positive and negative probation practices for their campaign to reform the process.

As a comic book illustrator, a notable published project was the graphic novel Tumult. The french translation of this book was nominated for the Prix Polar at Angoulême festival 2020. He retired from illustrating scripts in 2019.