Koren Shadmi is an Israeli-American, Brooklyn-based graphic novelist and illustrator. His books have been published internationally and include: In The Flesh, The Abaddon, Mike’s Place, Love Addict: Confessions of a Serial Dater, y Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D.
His illustration and comics have appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Wired, BusinessWeek, the Boston Globe, y el New York Times. En Higwayman (Top Shelf) Koren Shadmi follows an unnamed protagonist over the course of centuries, in a sprawling, ambitious journey across time and space. Forever on the move, Highwayman travels through the vastness of North America searching for the source of his condition: a strange, seemingly incurable disease: immortality. Bound to the road and at the mercy of whomever will give him a ride, he encounters people who reflect the rapidly changing world around him. Moving through centuries of change, he watches humanity’s precarious trajectory towards an unknown future. A review in Multiversity Comics called Highwayman ”… a beautiful book. It is a meditation on being, a story about the way society can change and crumble, and the things that humanity could do to survive. It tells all of those stories beautifully. [This] is a book that sits with you after you’ve finished reading it.”