Benjamin A. Wilgus Follow

BEN WILGUS is a Brooklyn-based bestselling writer, editor and cartoonist who's been working in comics for over a decade. He is the author of the SF graphic novel duology, Chronin (Tor Books), which NPR called “timeless in more ways than one,” and Book Riot called “magical,” and which has garnered a host of glowing reviews. His middle grade graphic novel Science Comics: Flying Machines was named one of the National Science Teachers Association’s Best STEM Books for 2018, and was an Amazon Holiday Toy List Pick. His next nonfiction graphic work, The Mars Challenge, is forthcoming from First Second. His New York Times bestselling work has been published by DC Comics, Dark Horse, Del Rey, and Scholastic, and he served as a script and story writer for Cartoon Network's "Codename: Kids Next Door." In his spare time, he co-hosts a podcast about comics publishing called “Graphic Novel TK” with Gina Gagliano.