Author Stephen "Win" Wiacek has worked in all areas of the comics industry since 1981, as a writer, artist, editor and designer. He has taught and lectured on comics creation and production; and worked as a cartoonist, journalist, and consultant for TV and movies. From 1997-2007, he was chairman of the UK's professional body the Comics Creators Guild.
As a freelance copywriter and reviewer, he writes about comics for the Marvel Fact Files partworks, and for books such as Marvel Greatest Comics, Marvel Year By Year: Updated And Expanded, The Ultimate Marvel GuideThe Black Panther Ultimate Guide—all from Dorling Kindersley. In his spare time he encourages people to change their reading habits on his Now Read This graphic novel review blog (www.comicsreview.co.uk/nowreadthis).
