Forrest Helvie is the author and creator of the children’s comic series, Whiz Bang and Amelia the Adventure Bear. He lives in Newington, CT with his wife and two sons. He is an English professor at Norwalk Community College and his literary interests are broad-ranging from medieval Arthurian to 19th century American, and most importantly, pedagogy, comics studies, and superheroes.

He regularly writes for various academic venues as well as more mainstream outlets such as Marvel.com and Newsarama. Forrest also writes for indie comics publishers such as GrayHaven Comics, Red Stylo, and TPub. In 2016, Forrest became one of the winning writers of the Breaking Into Comics: Women of Darby Pop contest. Forrest can be found on Twitter (@fhelvie) discussing all things comics related.