{"id":3,"date":"2007-02-02T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T10:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?page_id=3"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:22:22","slug":"about-wn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/about-wn\/","title":{"rendered":"About Win Wiacek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Win Wiacek<\/strong> spent years reading comics long before and even while doing the college thing and ending up working as a freelance designer. Somehow that took him into every aspect of the comics industry, from making and selling comics to teaching others how to make comics and sell them. Colleges, Film and TV companies even asked him often (and for money) all about comics and stories.<\/p>\n<p>While still reading a lot, he was made chairman of the <strong>Comics Creators Guild<\/strong> for more years than is democratically advisable, becoming crazed with power and besotted with his own worth. When finally toppled from his lofty perch he went away and read some comics.<\/p>\n<p>These days he reads comics and is paid to write books about them. He also writes this blog for therapeutic reasons and no money. The opinions expressed in this blog are solely his own and not necessarily shared anybody else, either in part or as a whole \u00e2\u20ac\u201d no matter how sensible, enticing, beguiling, logical and\/or irrefutable they may seem. 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