Richard Cowdry is a comics writer, illustrator and teacher living in Berlin.

His graphic novel Das Geheimnis der Knochen was published in November 2025 by avant-verlag, Germany.

His comics career began in the early 2000s after studying illustration at Brighton University, UK

In 2002 he won a new talent award at the Swiss Comic festival Sierre. He later taught comics to students at The University For The Arts in Maidstone, UK, and self-published the comics anthologies "Kartoon Cuts" (2004) and "The Bedsit Journal" issues 1 - 3 (2004 - 2008).

From 2010-2015 he was the editor of The Comix Reader, a comics anthology which became an important platform for London's alternative comics scene.

Richard has contributed to various publications including Kuti, Vice, Oxford American, Stripburger and Black Eye. New stories will appear in future issues of Mineshaft Magazine (USA).

He won first prize in the ComicInvasionBerlin awards of 2020 and received a Bandecus Underground Comix Award in 2026.

He is interested in and influenced by all eras of comics, going back to the early 1800s.

Das Geheimnis der Knochen (The Secret Of The Bones), his paleontology graphic novel, was published by avant-verlag in November 2025.

He is currently working on a new graphic novel and other comics projects.