In 2016, the University Press of Mississippi published his first book, Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia, a study of the role that memory plays in the work of comic book innovators C. C. Beck and Otto Binder (who got his start as a writer when he was a student at Schurz High School in Chicago). Last year he and singer Allison Felus composed the soundtrack for cartoonist Gene Kannenberg, Jr.’s asemic graphic novel Qodèxx, which they debuted at the Creative Coworking space in Evanston in July. They’ll be performing that piece again in May at Dartmouth College’s Illustration, Comics, and Animation conference, and they’re currently working on a new EP.