Darryl Cunningham is a cartoonist and author of Psychiatric Tales, a graphic interpretation of his experiences of working on an acute mental health unit, and Science Tales, a series of comic book essays on controversial science topics. His latest book Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy, which is published in late October 2014, examines the financial crisis of 2008. In our interview he talks about getting started as a cartoonist and how he used the internet to establish an author platform.