Ali Fitzgerald

Biography

Ali Fitzgerald is an author and artist. She contributes a monthly comic column to the New Yorker titled America!. Her comics have also appeared in the New York Times, the Cut, the Guardian, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. Her graphic nonfiction book Drawn to Berlin (Fantagraphics, 2018) received the Independent Publisher Book Award for best Graphic Novel/Drawn Book of 2019.

See Work

DRAWING IT OUT / Fall 2020

Forging a Future

By Ali Fitzgerald

“When you make and design things you condition people’s lives. The passport is a good example of that.”
DRAWING IT OUT / Summer 2020

Epidemic of Numbers

By Ali Fitzgerald
By Ali Fitzgerald
DRAWING IT OUT / Spring 2020

Our Deepfake Future

By Ali Fitzgerald

Deepfakes—videos altered by artificial intelligence—have begun warping our reality.

Dr. Subbarao Kambhampati, researcher and professor at Arizona State University and former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial...

Comic by Ali Fitzgerald
DRAWING IT OUT / Winter 2019

The Ferment Diaries

By Ali Fitzgerald

Caitlin Hata was initially alarmed by the dark alchemy of fermentation.
DRAWING IT OUT / Fall 2019

Playing Nice

By Ali Fitzgerald

Lisa Suhay dismisses the myth of the solitary chess genius. She uses chess to cultivate community and personal growth through her program, the Norfolk Initiative for Chess Excellence (NICE).