Christian Ward is a UK-based illustrator, comic artist, and writer. Some of his clients include Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Epic Games, and The Guardian, amongst others. After 10 years of encouraging London teenagers to draw anything other than comics, Christian Ward is now a multi-Eisner-winning comic book artist and writer. He is best known for his cosmic space operas ODY-C, co-created with Matt Fraction, and the Eisner-winning Invisible Kingdom, co-created with G. Willow Wilson. He was also the artist on the acclaimed Marvel comics series Black Bolt (with Saladin Ahmed) and contributed to Thor (with Jason Aaron) and Batman (with James Tynion IV). In 2019, he released his first book as a writer, Machine Gun Wizards, co-created with Sami Kivel , and 2022 saw the debut of Blood Stained Teeth, co-created with Patric Reynolds. Ward currently lives in Shrewsbury with his two daughters, wife Catherine, and pug Thor.