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 Guide, and The 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).