Against the Wind

Author and editor Richard Pini was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1950. He received a degree in astronomy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1969, he read a letter written by Wendy Fletcher that had been published in The Silver Surfer comic book. They struck up a correspondence and married in 1972. In 1978, they created Warp show more Graphics and the Elfquest series of comics, graphic novels, and prose works. Elfquest was one of the first independently published American comic series. In 1992, they started allowing other artists and writers to produce Elfquest stories. He worked for IBM and Hayden Planetarium before working full-time at Warp Graphics. He handles all of the publishing and business aspects of their company. (Bowker Author Biography) show less