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Matt Murphy is an Illustrator and writer who focuses on the production of self-published comics and zines. A charter member of the Chattanooga Comix Co-Op; he has been a featured vendor at Chattanooga ZineFest 2016 and has had his works presented in the Cress gallery and the AVA gallery, both located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is currently pursuing an MFA in visual narrative at the School of Visual Arts in New York, New York. While not attending classes in New York, he resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee where he teaches at Bachman Academy, a boarding school for children with learning differences.