Wayne Wise

Wayne Wise is a writer, artist, storyteller, seeker shaman and magician, or at least claims to be in casual conversation. He has a BA in History and an MA in Clinical Psychology and in his life has worked as a counsellor, an administrative assistant for a state legislator, an inter-office mail courier, a freelance comic book inker, and a department store Santa. He wrote music and comics-based articles for several local news mags and a couple of now-defunct national magazines. In 1993 he and his business partner/collaborator Fred Wheaton received the Xeric Grant and self-published the comic book Grey Legacy. In 2010 he wrote and drew a follow-up called Grey Legacy Tales. In 2011 he joined the digital publishing revolution by self-publishing three full length novels: Scratch, This Creature Fair, and Bedivere: The King's Right Hand. A new edition of his first novel, King of Summer, originally published in 2002, is also available. All are available in a variety of Ereader formats. He is currently employed by the Eisner Award-nominated comic book store Phantom of the Attic in Pittsburgh, serves as the Resident Comics Scholar for the Pittsburgh Toonseum, and teaches a course in Comics and Pop Culture as a guest lecturer at Chatham University.