CEL Welsh is an American freelance writer who owes comic books a great deal. He first read one over his brother's shoulder, thrilled by Spiderman battling super-villains, and struggling with maintaining a secret identity. Through comics he learnt a great deal about heroism, literature, storytelling and writing. When graphic novels - huge comic books with profound and satisfying stories - came along in the 1980s, he fell in love with them.
