Joel Meadows is a journalist and writer with over three decades of experience in newspapers, magazines, and books. His CV includes some of the most renowned publications in the world, including Time magazine, the Times, the Guardian, and the Observer. He has also written extensively about comics, film, TV, and culture for publications such as Variety, Empire, Big Issue in the North, and the Jewish Chronicle. He has interviewed every mover and shaker in the worlds of comics, film and TV including Matt Groening, Guillermo del Toro and Jon Favreau. He is the editor-in-chief of Tripwire, a preeminent online and web publication that covers comics, film, TV, and related subjects. He is also the author of two books on comic artists and their studios, Studio Space in 2008 from Image Comics and Masters Of Comics from Insight Comics in 2019. He was also one of the producers of the Portsmouth International Comic Con and is now one of the founders of Tripwire Presents Bristol Comic Con.