Bill Schelly

Bill Schelly (born November 2, 1951, Walla Walla, Washington, United States) is an author primarily known as a historian of cinema, comic books, and comic book fandom. He is also an accomplished portrait and comic book artist. He is perhaps best known for writing Harry Langdon, the biography of Harry Langdon the great comedian of silent cinema, and The Golden Age of Comic Fandom, nominated for a Will Eisner Comics Industry Award. He has carved out a niche, as the foremost historian of comic book fandom. His association with Roy Thomas, prominent comic book writer and historian, led to the revival of the seminal comic book fanzine, Alter Ego. Schelly has served as Associate Editor since the revival (1998). Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, wrote in 2001, “Bill Schelly has an obsessive yet intelligent passion for things many might consider marginal if not bizarre—always the mark of an interesting mind.”