Dale Beran is a writer and artist living in Baltimore, MD. His work includes digital illustration, 2D/3D animation, VR programming, and graphic comics. His most recent book is "It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office" (All Points Books, July 2019).His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Quartz, The Huffington Post, The Daily Dot, The Nib, and The Baltimore City Paper. In 2019, he delivered his firs TED Talk in 2019. Beran holds a BA in classics from Bard and a JD from Fordham.