Co-founder of Escape magazine and Comica Festival, Paul Gravett is a London-based writer, curator, critic and lecturer specialising in international comics. His books include Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics (2004), Graphic Novels: Stories To Change Your Life (2005), Great British Comics (2006), Comics Art (2013), Mangasia: The Definitive Guide to Asian Comics (2017) and Posy Simmonds (2019). He also edited 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die (2011). Among the exhibitions he has curated are Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK (2014) for The British Library and Mangasia: Wonderlands of Asian Comics (2017), which The Barbican Centre is touring worldwide. His new monograph on Tove Jansson is published this October. www.paulgravett.com