Hey! I’m Maddy Buck.
I am a cartoonist, technologist, and attorney, somehow all at once.
I draw regularly about life with a new baby and write about how law, technology, and creativity overlap. Sometimes, I explain legal concepts with comics. I am also working on a graphic memoir about feeling completely out of place in law school.
By day, I work with attorneys seeking to practice at the top of their license by implementing Gavel, the automation infrastructure for today’s legal professionals. I am a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s AI Standing Committee where we are developing a framework for how AI can be used by attorneys in Minnesota both in their regular practice and to promote access to justice.
Oh, also. I love drawing on walls.
Highlights
“Langue Maternelle,” comic, forthcoming, Spring 2025, in Planches, a Québécois comics journal.
Hennepin County Library purchases “Book of Anger,” “Reality Check,” and “Lake Moments.” for their circulating zine collection. 2023. You can literally go check them out, if you’re in the area!
Minnesota Center for Book Arts New Editions 2023 Exhibition includes zines “When are they coming back?” and “A Fundamental Right.”
“Everyone Wants to Know,” Spotlight Comic, The Rumpus. May 2021.
Activity design and book reading in Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) Virtual Family Day: Coloring My Feelings. April 2021.
“Opting for Health” commissioned by University of Minnesota Women’s Center for their 60th anniversary Reimagining Feminist Futures zine, December 2020.
“Blob Party,” an at-home exhibition featuring a number of blob collages. November 2020.
Collage-making process featured in University of Minnesota’s Artistic Antidote project, 2020.
“Federal Quarantine Powers” explainer included in Graphic Medicine’s Covid Comics, 2020.
American Illustration 39 Chosen Winner, included in Online Archive, 2020.
“Lake In Limbo” featured in Hennepin Lawyer, Jan/Feb 2020.
Feature in Minnesota Daily, “From Textbook to Sketchbook, Making Legal Concepts Accessible,” January 19, 2020.
“Book of Anger,” “Lake Moments,” and “Reality Check” zines exhibited for Minnesota Center for Book Arts New Editions Exhibition, 2019.
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