DAN NOTT is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His short comics and illustrations for investigative journalism have appeared in Spotlight PA, The Nib, Resist!, and Seven Days, and in publications for NJ Advance Media and WBUR, among others. He graduated with an MFA from The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) and released two comic books with CCS – This is What Democracy Looks Like: A Graphic Guide to Governance and Freedom and Unity: A Graphic Guide to Civics and Democracy in Vermont – and today teaches classes there. Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day (Random House Graphic) is his debut nonfiction graphic novel.