Ryan Cassidy

Ryan Cassidy is an interdisciplinary artist and author based in London, Ontario, Canada. He self-publishes subversive zines and underground comix (Goldenrod Magzine, The Singing Chandelier, Buckets O’ Chuckle). His work has been published in Pulping, Textile Magazine, Squid Literary, and Spread Love Comix.

Cassidy’s Anarchist politics, faith in Magic, and idiosyncratic humour form the core of his guerilla ethos. As a style-agnostic jack-of-all-trades, Cassidy works anonymously, pseudonymously, and as a collaborator to disrupt mundane spaces and subvert the status quo. 

For Human Eyes Only

Ryan Cassidy

Comics will be the last form of human expression co-opted by AI. This zine provides methods of hiding text from optical character recognition tech and AI
language-parsing software. It also demonstrates how comics can contain instructions on how to
read and how to not-read them, like hypertext, only human.

New Hypermedia: Subverting Big Tech

Sam Nabi Aaron El Sabrout Ryan Cassidy SADiE

hypermedia (noun): a term first used in 1965 by Ted Nelson to imagine digital media that is interconnected in complex and non-linear ways. Editor's NoteAt the turn of the millennium, the early Int...