Sense of Wonder

Bill Schelly has been chronicling and adding to the pop-culture fringes since the mid-1960s. He began researching the history of comic book fandom in 1991, resulting in the book The Golden Age of Comic Fandom (1995). In 1998, he became Associate Editor of the Eisner Award winning magazine Alter Ego, a post he holds to the present day. Schelly has written several biographies of film and comics artists, including movie clown Harry Langdon and comic book scribe Otto Binder. In 2008, he authored Man of Rock, a biography of Joe Kubert. His American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1950'S (2013) was nominated for a Harvey Award. Schelly's latest book is Harvey Kurtzman, The Man Who Created MAD (2015).