Rich Tommaso has been writing and illustrating original comics and graphic novels for seventeen years. Many of his works have been translated into Spanish and French. He has penned over a dozen original comic books in his career, garnering favorable reviews from "Publisher's Weekly", "SPIN Magazine", "CBG", "Wizard", and "The Comics Journal". His last graphic novel with writer James Sturm, "Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow", received great praise by "The New York Times" and in 2008 won him an Eisner award for Best Reality-Based Work.