David Seidman has been a comic book writer, a publicist for the comics publishers NBM Publishing and Claypool Comics, senior editor of Disney Comics, a teacher of comics writing at UCLA and an author of storybooks and other fiction starring superheroes such as Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four. As a journalist, he’s written about comics for publications ranging from the Los Angeles Times to the trade journal Comics and Games Retailer. In addition, he’s authored more than 30 books on subjects as diverse as Christmas lights, longevity medicine, teenage life in Iran, relocating to Los Angeles and the F/A-18 warplane.