Igor Goldkind

Igor Goldkind (born April 20, 1960, in Lansing, Michigan), raised San Diego, California. He is an author, poet, and lecturer who specializes in digital storytelling and information architecture.

Biography

The son of San Diego State University anthropology professor Victor Goldkind and painter Margarita Zúñiga Chavaria, Goldkind's interest in literature and art began early in his childhood. Starting at the age of 14, Goldkind served as a volunteer science fiction coordinator for San Diego Comic-Con, meeting Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Larry Niven, and Harlan Ellison.

After attending San Francisco State University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, earning a degree in philosophy, Goldkind freelanced as a political journalist. In 1983, he moved to Paris to pursue journalism. It was here that he met and studied with Michel Foucault, the French post-structuralist. After receiving a graduate certificate from the Sorbonne, Goldkind moved to London where he worked first for Titan Books in the 1980s and then for Egmont Fleetway in the 1990s as a marketing consultant and PR spokesperson. Goldkind used the term "graphic novel", which he got from Will Eisner (who in turn got it from Richard Kyle), as a way to help sell the trade paperback comics then being published.

Goldkind has lectured at Liverpool University, Liverpool College, St. Martins School of Design, and the London College of Printing.