Allan Comport has worked in the commercial art industry as an advocate, artist representative, creative director, and instructor. Allan has been a faculty member at MICA since 2002, serving as Illustration Department Chair from 2016–2023. He has worked with scores of notable illustrators, photographers, and designers in a wide variety of ad agencies, design firms, magazines, newspapers, publishers, and corporations internationally as an artist representative at Shannon Associates and C.O.O. of Blue Pixel. Allan has been a guest lecturer for Adobe, the Illustrators Conference, and served as a reviewer in Painting & Illustration for the Fulbright Scholar Program.