In one panel in his autobiographical anthology comic The Dead Muse (Fantagraphics, 199o), his longtime friend Eddie Campbell wrote: “Paul Gravett in England… is the ‘man at the crossroads’ of the world’s crisscross network of small press, Art Press, obscure press comics-publishing, that melée of tangents where the muse was last seen hitch-hiking.” With the rise of the internet, there might be no ‘crossroads’ on the information super-highway, but to this day Paul remain ‘a node person’, who enjoys building connections and making good things happen for comics, internationally and transnationally. From writing and reviewing for British fanzines to establishing Fast Fiction as a distro mail order service and sales stand at London comics marts for self-published comics. From promoting pssst!, a French-backed art comic, around the UK in a converted double-decker bus to working on their magazine as New Talent Scout and Traffic Manager for the magazine. From co-publishing Escape Magazine and Escape Graphic Novels with partner Peter Stanbury (1983-89) to directing London’s first Cartoon Museum (1992-2001). From curating landmark exhibitions — for the Angoulême Comics Festival, The British Library, The Barbican, House of Illustration, The Belgian Comics Art Museum and The Centre Pompidou among others — to co-founding with John Harris Dunning Comica Festival in London. He is also a journalist, lecturer and historian, writing for a wide variety of newspaper and magazines, as well as an author/co-author/editor since 2004 of numerous books about comics. His latest is a monograph about Tove Jansson, creator of The Moomins, for the Thames & Hudson series ‘The Illustrators’.