Alex Paknadel
Alexis Thomas James Paknadel is born in London.
AP is graduated with an MA in English Literature from Lancaster University. His MA thesis is titled, "'They're Nuts Up There: We're Nuts Down Here': Philip K. Dick's Gnostic-Inflected Theologico-Political Messianism and the Commodity."
While studying at Lancaster, AP meets his future spouse, Lia Kinane.
AP's co-authored academic study of terrorism in fiction is a serious consideration of its representation, and creates a new "taxonomy of terror" within the field.
Appelbaum, Robert, and Alexis Paknadel. "Terrorism and the Novel, 1970–2001." Poetics Today, vol. 29, no. 3 (2008), pp. 387-436, doi: 10.1215/03335372-072.
AP is graduated with a PhD in English Literature from Lancaster University. His dissertation looks at the place of memory and nostalgia in two postmodern writers: Anywhere But Here: The Competing (and Complementary) Postmodern Nostalgias of J. G Ballard and Douglas Coupland.
AP begins working for a marketing firm in London.
Senane Paknadel is born.
AP's first story, Arcadia, is published in eight issues by BOOM! Studios. It is an immediate success.
AP gives up his remote job for a London marketing organization in order to focus on writing full-time.
AP and Artyom Trakhanov write and illustrate a four-issue miniseries, Turncoat. It meets with great critical and commercial success.
Arcadia is named by Paste Magazine as #4 in their list of "50 Best Sci-Fi Comics."
AP takes over the Kino series, writing ten issues.
Friendo, a five-issue miniseries from Vault Comics, is published. Again, AP is hailed as a visionary in the field.
Incursion, a four-issue miniseries, is published by Valiant Comics.
AP writes GIGA, another five-issue miniseries from Vault. Comics, is published. Scott Snyder, author of American Vampire, Batman, and Justice League, notes, "GIGA...imagines a future where humans make their homes in the husks of mysterious massive robots and it's smart, thought-provoking gorgeous stuff."