I make complex ideas easy to understand.
Published comics journalism in The Lily, The Nib, and The Comics Journal. A book The Advocate put on its best of the year list. An AI literacy project that turns research into cards people share.
On the record
Intimate and Honest
ComicsVerse, 99 percentThe stories by Beier are funny, sad, beautiful, and intriguing.
Graphic Policy, 10 out of 10 on story, art and overallLike Toulouse Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge, Beier became both documentarian and participant.
Mission Local, on the Lexington Club projectBeier is a cartoonist to keep an eye on.
Bleeding CoolElizabeth Beier (who live-drew many panels, much to everyone’s delight).
The Comics Journal, Queers and Comics conference report
Featured communications work
Reported, published, and read by people who did not have to.
Comics journalism
Reported comics published in The Lily at The Washington Post, The Nib, and The Comics Journal, where five pieces carry my byline. The Lily named me one of its favourites of the year twice, in 2018 and 2019. I have been edited, published and reviewed, on the record.
read →Belle of the Bot
The hardest explaining job I have given myself. 133 cards that take AI research and turn it into something a person will actually read and pass along.
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Choose Democracy
Their most watched animated explainer, at 26,000 views, plus 400 or more illustrations now published in a book and running in progressive training slides. Proof that the explaining travels.
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The rest of the deck, ordered for someone hiring a communicator.
Boards for a national conference
A full conference recorded live, including the opening plenary with the chief executive, the board chair and the chief conservation officer. Listening, synthesising and drawing at the same speed the room is talking.
How a sleep apnea machine works
I took my own machine apart and drew what was inside. Five drawings, a fixed seven part sequence, and a colour legend that holds across the whole set.
Independent civic scribing
I arrived four hours early to an Elizabeth Warren town hall in Oakland to get near the front, drew it live, and her campaign retweeted it. Netroots Nation in 2015 and 2016. Marches in St Louis and Phoenix. Nobody commissioned any of it.
Drive the 505
Teaching a nervous adult to drive is an explaining problem. This one is broken into modules, flashcards and a map you can poke at.
Product deck generator
Brand voice and layout rules written down precisely enough that a machine can follow them, which is a communications problem before it is a technical one.
Email campaign generator
Governance that holds without a human remembering to check. Worth knowing about if your comms team has ever shipped an email missing its unsubscribe link.
Analytics build and dashboard
The measurement layer under a communications team, so what got published can be answered with a number instead of a feeling.
Passage
An app for someone caring for a person with a terminal illness. Every word in it had to be gentle and exact at the same time.
Aristotle’s Poetics, on one sheet
Two thousand years of dramatic theory compressed onto one sheet for a graduate comics class, and it held up in the room.
Graphic facilitation at 8works
A former United Nations Secretary-General and a former Prime Minister of Australia, drawn while they spoke, with their arguments intact and their quotes attributed. If I can keep up with them, I can keep up with your subject matter expert.
open to marketing operations, analytics and martech roles
Let’s talk.
I have been edited, published, reviewed and put on a stage, and I have spent a decade turning research and reporting into something a person will finish reading. The medium changes. The job does not.
If you have something complicated that has to land with people who are not paid to care, that is the work I want.