Paul Gravett is a London-based journalist, curator, writer, and broadcaster who has worked in comics publishing since 1981.
He is the founder of Escape Magazine, and for many years wrote a monthly article on comics appearing in the UK magazine Comics International, together with a monthly column for ArtReview. He has written for various periodicals including The Guardian, The Comics Journal, Comic Art, Comics International, Time Out, Blueprint, Neo, The Bookseller, The Daily Telegraph, and Dazed & Confused.
Books in order of publication:
Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics (Harper Design, 2004)
Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life (Aurum Press, October 2005), US printing: Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know (Collins Design, November 2005)
Great British Comics: Celebrating a Century of Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes (Aurum Press, October 2006) (with Peter Stanbury).
The Leather Nun and Other Incredibly Strange Comics (Aurum Press September 2008) (with Peter Stanbury).
Comics Art (Tate Publishing, October 2013)
Comics Unmasked (The British Library, May 2014) (with John Harris Dunning)
Oak Lawn Library Friends 