A fascinating story of growing up as a gay fan of comic books in the 1960s, building a fifty-year career as an award-winning writer, and interacting with acclaimed comic book legends
BILL SCHELLY has been chronicling and adding to the pop culture fringes since the mid-1960s. He became widely known in the comics community thanks to his popular fanzine Sense of Wonder (1967-1972). In 1998, he became associate editor of the Eisner Award-winning magazine Alter Ego, a post he still holds. Schelly has written several biographies of film and comics artists, including comedian Harry Langdon and Joe Kubert. His American Comic Book Chronicles- The 1950s was nominated for a Harvey Award. He recently authored Harvey Kurtzman, The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America, which was published in 2015. It received the Will Eisner Comics Industry Award in 2016 for Best Comics-Related Book. Schelly has also received an Inkpot Award from Comic-Con International- San Diego.
"Reading Bill Schelly's fond, funny, and nostalgic memoir was like
going home again."
—George R. R. Martin
“For decades, comics superfan and historian Bill Schelly had a
secret identity, but in Sense of Wonder he pulls off the mask and
tells the world how growing up as a comic book fan—and
gay—influenced his life. Men in tights, gaining empowerment, gay
parenting, love lost, and found … Schelly lays it all bare in a
frank and fascinating way.”
—Andy Mangels, best-selling author of Star Trek and Star Wars and
founder of the Gays in Comics Panel at Comic-Con International
“Passionate and magnificent! Bill Schelly was one of those integral
people responsible for nurturing and growing comic book fandom
until the rest of the planet finally began to join us, bringing
comic books and superheroes from the subversive to the mainstream.
For that, the entire world today owes him its thanks for a job well
done!”
—Michael Uslan, executive producer of Batman Begins, The Dark
Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises
“The author is living proof that a lifelong passion can pay off in
countless ways, both personal and professional. Long live
fandom!”
—Leonard Maltin, film critic for Entertainment Tonight
"The core audience for this memoir of a life in thrall to comics is
Schelly’s fellow fans, but his reminiscences of this bygone
subculture long before superheroes entered the mainstream
warrants a wider readership."
—Booklist
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