Scott Tipton is a New York Times best-selling author and comic book historian with a wide variety of both graphic novel and prose works to his credit. Tipton's most recent prose work, The Star Trek Vault- 40 Years from the Archives for Abrams Publishing, charts the remarkable history of the world's most popular science-fiction series. He is also the author of Comic Books 101, a humorous stroll through the history and high points of the American art form known as comic books, published by Impact Books.