After 10 years of encouraging London teenagers to draw anything other than comics, Christian Ward is now a multi-Eisner Award winning comic book artist and writer. He is best known for his cosmic space operas ODY-C (co-created with Matt Fraction) and Invisible Kingdom (co-created with G. Willow Wilson). He was also the artist on the acclaimed Marvel comics series Black Bolt (with Saladin Ahmed), as well contributing to both Thor (with Jason Arron) and Batman (with James Tynion IV). In 2019 he released his first book as a writer, Machine Gun Wizards (co-created with Sami Kivelä) and has juggled loving writing comics with loving drawing comics ever since. Ward currently lives in Shrewsbury with his two daughters, his wife Catherine, and a pug named Thor.