David Axe is a freelance war correspondent based in Washington, D.C., and Columbia, South Carolina. Since 2005 he has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, East Timor, Somalia, and Chad, among other conflict zones. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Times, the Village Voice, Popular Mechanics, Wired, Popular Science, Salon, and Columbia Journalism Review, as well as on BBC Radio, C-SPAN, and PBS. He is the author of the graphic novel War Fix(ComicsLit, 2006), the nonfiction book Army 101(University of South Carolina Press, 2007) and the graphic novel War Is Boring(NAL Trade, 2010).