Dave Chisholm is a graphic novelist and musician currently living in Rochester, NY where he received his doctorate in jazz trumpet from the Eastman School of Music in 2013. His expertise in music as well as his formal inventiveness within the comics medium has resulted in a string of critically-acclaimed music-centric graphic novels including Miles Davis & the Search for the Sound (2023, Z2 Comics), Enter the Blue (2022, Z2 Comics), Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California (2020, Z2 Comics), and the groundbreaking graphic novel + original soundtrack Instrumental (2017, Z2 Comics). His newest work is Spectrum, made in collaboration with writer Rick Quinn: a genre-bending deep dive into a cosmic war taking place in the realm of music set in an alternate--and ever-shifting--20th century.
Hailed by ComicsBeat as "one of the most exciting comic auteurs working in comics today," Chisholm also has a passion for education and teaches comics and music at the Hochstein School and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
In his free time, Dave enjoys spending time with his family and his cats.

"Chisholm's art is appropriately fantastic and storybook-like, overflowing with giddy colors and trippy transitions. The overall effect resembles an arcane concept album."-- "Publishers Weekly"

"Spectrum is a great comic and one that captures the sensations and chaos of art as an experience. Your confusion is as important an experience as your understanding, the two concepts dance on the page to create a captivating story of what it feels like love art, and to make art for the love it."--Steve Baxi "The Comics Beat"