Dave Ortega makes comics with multilayered narratives about class and cultural conflict, stifled creativity, and lost histories. His award-winning graphic novel DÃas de Consuelo is a historical memoir about the early life of his grandmother during the Mexican Revolution. The Comics Journal wrote in its review of Dave's one-person anthology series Hacienda, "comic book writing doesn’t get much smarter than this." Dave lives in Somerville, MA.
